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
Training
27 November–01 December 2019
Training XVII: QFCPSSBBXOXO: Queer and Feminist Physical and Critical Self-Defense and Support Bloc of Bodies
The seventeenth training as part of the Trainings for the Not-Yet is with a subdivision of To Be Determined (Clara Balaguer, Gabriel Fontana, and Sarafina van Ast), and takes place 27 November–1 December 2019 (Wednesday–Sunday). This training focuses on deep listening, voice activation, team forming, and physical exercises to map limits and define strategies for protecting bodies.
Discursive
11 November 2018, 13.00-13.45
BAK and Le Guess Who? – How To Be Together Otherwise?
Introduction to exhibition Forensic Justice by Maria Hlavajova
As part of the ‘Untitled’ program of music festival Le Guess Who?, BAK’s General and Artistic Director, Maria Hlavajova, gives an introduction to the exhibition Forensic Justice.
Discursive
16 December 2007
RIR in Public: On movement, thought and politics
RIR in Public is an occasion that shares with the public current research by artists, curators, or writers in the Research-in-Residence (RIR) program in various and informal settings.
Exhibition
11 April–21 June 2015
New World Academy Exhibition
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Centraal Museum, Utrecht present the exhibition New World Academy, which brings together artworks, documents, and propositions from five sessions of the eponymous learning platform, realized between 2013 and 2015. Interwoven into the exhibition are works selected by artist Jonas Staal from the collection of Centraal Museum.

