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
Exhibition and public program
28 February, 18.00–17 May, 19.00 2020
Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals [reopening 16 & 17 Oct 2020]
An exhibition and public program, curated by Thiago de Paula Souza
[Update 17 May 2020: We are excited to announce that the exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals reopens on 16 October 2020, to run through 10 January 2021.]
From 28 February–17 May 2020, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht proudly presents Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals. An exhibition and public program with and around the work of artist Tony Cokes, curated by Thiago de Paula Souza.
Education Program
26 October, 19.00–30 November, 21.00 2020
Course: Art as Politics [Fully booked!]
An Online Extension of BAK Public Studies
Due to popular demand, BAK Public Studies offers yet another rerun of the online course Art as Politics, taking place on the following dates: 26 October & 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 November 2020. This digital extension of BAK Public Studies, taught by Maria Hlavajova, is prompted by the urgency to continue collective thinking through, learning about, and imagining critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp—and intervene into—the present.
BAK, basis voor
27 September 2019, 20.00-23.00
Yallah Sabaya
Yallah Sabaya is a special evening just for women, an evening where dance and music connect women from around the world. It is part of the series BAK, basis voor… and organized by Welkom in Utrecht, De Voorkamer, Yallah Yallah, and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.
Exhibition
12 May–22 July 2018
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger
This exhibition features works by artists Doug Ashford, Sven Augustijnen, Tala Madani, Liz Magic Laser, Eva and Franco Mattes, Otobong Nkanga, and Sarah Vanhee, as well as a library space conceived by 2017/2018 BAK Fellow Sepake Angiama.
