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

Suggestions from the archive

Exhibition

02 March–29 June 2014

Cardboard Walls

a video installation by Aernout Mik

The multifaceted series Survival was inaugurated with the work Cardboard Walls (2013) by artist Aernout Mik, which weaves together the key lineages of thought that we have marked for ourselves as critically important for (rethinking) survival—namely, questions surrounding the endurability of the planet, the livelihoods of refugees, and the need to reorient our thinking around (institutional) infrastructure.

Training

2-6 October 2019

Training III: Mad About Study

Collective reading and writing, conversations, somatics, movement research, karaoke, and more, culminating in a dance party and public intervention on Saturday 5 October 2019

The third training as part of Trainings for the Not-Yet is with Joy Mariama Smith, and takes place from 2–6 October 2019 (Wednesday–Sunday) at BAK. It is a training in collective reading and writing, conversations, somatics, movement research, karaoke, and more, culminating in a dance party and public intervention.

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.

Inleiding

4 September, 15.00–5 September, 16.30 2021

Inleiding op Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia, exclusief voor Museumkaarthouders

Speciaal voor Museumkaarthouders, op zaterdag 4 en zondag 5 september: een exclusieve inleiding op Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia, de eerste uitgebreide tentoonstelling van kunstenaar Kader Attia in Nederland. Met video’s, fotografie, collages, installaties en sculpturale werken, gericht op Attia’s concept van ‘dekoloniaal herstel’.