09 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing
Program
BAK programming combines the artistic, experiential, theoretical, and political so as to imagine and enact transformative ways, with and through art, of being together otherwise. BAK’s current research trajectory Propositions for Non-Fascist Living (2017–ongoing) is prompted by the dramatic resurfacing and normalization of fascisms, historical and contemporary. BAK organizes exhibitions, lectures, publications, workshops, and composite performative conferences with exhibitionary, discursive, and performative elements.
Calendar
Current & Upcoming
Crowdfunding Campaign
Exhibition
22 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing
Suggestions from the archive
Lecture
23 November 2007
Islam in the West: Impossible Religion or Clashing Culture?
Lecture by Tariq Ramadan.
Education Program
12 April 2023, 12.00-18.00
Shapeshifting Sports Camp
Shapeshifting Sports Camp proposes an inclusive physical education program for schools. It features a series of collective exercises and alternative team sport games to promote empathy and social inclusion. During the training, participants play games that Gabriel Fontana developed in collaboration with Rotterdam-based schools, sport teachers, and their pupils. Composed of new tools, rules, transformable uniforms, and alternative sport fields, the games play around fluid identities. Players are invited into situations where they change teams halfway through the game or where they don’t know at all to which team they belong.
Screening
7 October 2022, 19.00-21.45
Asian Movie Night: Ushiku
BAK Community Portal hosts...
Screening of the documentary Ushiku (2021) by Thomas Ash, followed by a panel discussion with the director and members from activist groups Migrante, SEHAQ and Papaya Kuir. Hosted by BAK Community Portal and organised by the initiative Asian Movie Night.
Education Program
03 December 2018–21 January 2019
Course Art and Politics
A six-week course on the relations between contemporary art and the political
“Art and Politics” is an inaugural course of a new public school for art and politics organized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht. In six weekly sessions, the participants learn about how contemporary art relates to the political in an accessible way. The course is taught by Maria Hlavajova, BAK’s general and artistic director.
