The Research-in-Residence program (RIR) provides international artists, researchers, writers, curators, and critics with an opportunity to spend a period of time living and working in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands in order to develop their artistic or theoretical work. Residencies are of different durations and vary according to the needs of the residents. Invitations are extended to seven or eight practitioners each year on the basis of their high-quality critical artistic or intellectual practice, interest in actively exchanging resources, knowledge, and thinking with BAK and the public, engagement with the central themes of inquiry articulated by BAK, and capacity to spend a concentrated period of time in Utrecht.

Tom Clark
researcher
22.–29.11.2015
02.04.–01.05.2015

Lucy Lopez
researcher
09.07.–31.10.2015
09.–12.04.2015

Ursula Biemann
artist
27.–30.05.2015

Anna Tsing
theorist, professor, Santa Cruz
15.–19.04.2015

Ann-Sofi Rönnskog and John Palmesino
architects and urbanists, London
04.–08.02.2015

Seyma Bayram
researcher
05.–26.01.2014
10.–26.02.2014
16.–25.05.2014
09.08.–10.09.2014

Heath Bunting
artist, net activist, and co-founder of www.irational.org, Bristol
11.–15.12.2013

Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin
artists, Nantes
28.11.–02.12.2013

Lisa Ito and Walkie Miraña
members of Concerned Artists of the Philippines, Quezon City
12.–25.11.2013

Seyma Bayram
researcher
24.06.–06.08.2013

Nancy Adajania and Ranjit Hoskote
cultural theorists and independent curators, Mumbai
25.03.–11.05.2013

Nástio Mosquito
multimedia and performance artist, Luanda
14.03.–14.06.2013

Georgy Mamedov
curator, Bishkek
15.06.–29.07.2012

Daniel Baker
artist, curator, researcher, and activist, London
03.10.–18.12.2011

David Riff
art critic and artist, Moscow
18.07.–05.09.2011
13.07.–27.08.2010
09.–23.02.2010

Andrew Maerkle
editor, writer, and researcher, Tokyo
01.07.–25.09.2011

Kathrin Rhomberg
researcher
01.–12.07.2011

Ovidiu Tichindeleanu
philosopher and cultural theorist, Cluj and Chisinau
14.03.–15.06.2011
01.–31.03.2010

Miguel A. López
artist, researcher, and writer, Lima
16.12.10–13.02.2011

Nancy Adajania & Ranjit Hoskote
cultural theorists, art critics, and curators, Bombay
01.09.–30.11.2010

Boyan Manchev
philosopher and writer, Paris and Sophia
13.08.–01.09.2010

Miguel A. López
artist, researcher, and writer, Lima
05.05.–30.07.2010

Vivian Rehberg
art historian and critic, Paris
01.03.–30.06.2010

Ovidiu Tichindeleanu
philosopher and cultural theorist, Cluj
01.–31.03.2010

Matteo Lucchetti
art historian and curator, Milan
01.02.–30.06.2010

Michele Faguet
writer and curator, Berlin
19.10.–13.11.2009

Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor
artists, Bucharest
04.07.–09.11.2009

Boyan Manchev
philosopher and writer, Paris and Sofia
04.05.–30.09.2009

Aaron Schuster
writer and philosopher, Brussels
05.01.–30.04.2009

Judy Radul
artist and lecturer, Vancouver
17.11.2008–06.01.2009

Solmaz Shahbazi
architect and artist, Berlin and Tehran
15.09.–15.11.2008

Rod Dickinson
artist and lecturer, London
01.09.–23.12.2008

Michael Uwemedimo
writer, curator and member of Vision Machine, London
23.06.–31.08.2008

Övül Durmuşoğlu
curator, Istanbul and Vienna
22.01.–16.04.2008

Péter Fuchs
art critic, Budapest
07.01.–31.03.2008

Ashley Hunt
artist, activist, and writer, Los Angeles
10.10.–18.12.2007

Taisha Paggett
dance artist and co-instigator of the dance journal project “itch,” Los Angeles
10.10.–18.12.2007

Cosmin Costinas
writer, art critic, and curator, Vienna
01.10.–24.01.2008

Dovile Tumpyte
curator, Vilnius
13.08.–25.09.2007

Nicole Pollentier
writer and curator, New York
26.06.–25.08.2007

Alex Supartono
writer and art critic, Jakarta
24.05.–26.07.2007

Sopowan Boonnimitra
filmmaker and photographer, Bangkok
11.04.–05.06.2007

Althea Thauberger
artist, Berlin and Vancouver
06.01.–18.03.2007

Mariana Castillo Deball
artist, Amsterdam and Berlin
01.–31.12.2006

Steven Rand
founder and director of apexart, New York
22.10.–19.11.2006

Seçil Yersel
artist and co-founder of the artist collaborative Oda Projesi, Istanbul
09.10.2006–31.01.2007

Erden Kosova
writer and theorist, Istanbul
09.10.2006–31.01.2007

Andrea Schneemeier
artist, Budapest
14.05.–15.08.2006

Haegue Yang
artist, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Seoul
09.01.–03.05.2006