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
Opening weekend
14 September, 13.00–15 September, 18.00 2019
Opening: Trainings for the Not-Yet/The City Staircase
The opening weekend of Trainings for the Not-Yet, an exhibition project in collaboration with artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, takes place during the cultural Uitfeest in Utrecht. It opens with The City Staircase (Het trappenhuis van de stad): a series of conversations with around eighty Utrecht residents, on how they envision the future of the city of Utrecht.
Lecture
17 March 2009
Islam in Europe: Retrenchment and Renewal
A lecture by Jorgen Nielsen with an introduction by Rosi Braidotti as part of the Postsecularism research itinerary.
Lecture
24 March 2015
Thinking Out Loud: Practices of Art in the Era of the Disenchanted
On 24 March 2015, BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova presents a talk titled Thinking Out Loud: Practices of Art in the Era of the Disenchanted, in which she thinks through the research projects FORMER WEST and Future Vocabularies, to reflect on the question what the prospective itineraries might be through which we can point towards what we once used to call the “future”?
Public program
18 December 2019, 18.30-21.30
International Migrant Day: a walk by the Basic Activist Kitchen
On Wednesday 18 December, the Basic Activist Kitchen will organize a walk in honor of International Migrant Day, starting at Moskeeplein and ending with a dinner in collaboration with Taste Before You Waste at BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. International Migrant Day pays homage to the lives, rights and contributions of migrants to societies […]
