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

09 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing

Join Our Crowdfunding Campaign: Support Freefilmers!

The project To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) and the project To Watch the War, In Solidarity are accompanied by a crowdfunding campaign in support of Freefilmers—some of its members are artists and activist filmmakers included in the exhibition and public program.

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living

Exhibition

22 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing

To Watch the War: In Solidarity

This impromptu presentation is a part of a long-term series under the same title, related to the image forum To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) at BAK, taking place between 9 September and 29 October 2023.

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living

Exhibitionary

8-7 March 2024-Ongoing

Yallah Sabaya

Community Portal Hosts… Yallah Sabaya Join us on 8 March 2024 at BAK, Yallah Sabaya is happening again! “Come on ladies, let’s have fun together,” would be a good translation of yallah sabaya. All women of different cultural backgrounds are welcome to dance, chat, and connect with others also through movement and celebration. 8 March 2024, […]

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living

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Online Exhibition

14 September 2021, 08.00-Ongoing

An Anecdoted Archive of Exhibition Lives

An online exhibition conceptualized by Irit Rogoff and Nora Sternfeld for freethought collective.

Spectral Infrastructure

Learning

19-20 October 2020

Public Studies: Practice as Theory (online), with Tony Cokes

A two-day workshop by artist Tony Cokes, in the framework of exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals

As a part of the exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals, the artist presents a two-day workshop investigating critical themes that circulate through his work, and various intersections with and applications of forms of the theoretical.

Education Program

11 March–15 April 2019

Course: Art and Politics

A six-week course on the relations between contemporary art and the political

The basic course of the BAK School for Art and Politics is organized from 11 March until 15 April 2019. 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.

BAK Studies

Training

11-15 December 2019

Training XXI: Training for the Underwater(ed) Land

The twenty-first training as part of the Trainings for the Not-Yet is with QANAT (Abdellah Hassak, Amine Lahrach, Edouard Sors, Francesca Masoero, George Bajalia, Jérôme Giller, Louisa Aarrass, Noureddine Ezarraf, and Sara Frikech), and takes place on 11–15 December 2019 (Wednesday–Sunday). This training focuses on artistic interventions, participative research, and discussions aimed at building a political and poetical map of water in its entanglement with the formation of landscapes and worldviews.

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