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
Lecture
19 November 2005
On Crisis (emergency and new heroism)
Lectures by and discussion with Jeremiah Day, artist, Amsterdam; Jan Verwoert, art critic and writer, Berlin; Klub Zwei, artists-collective, Vienna.
Lecture
11 January 2009
Mythic Narratives of Secularism and Religion
lectures by Sven Lutticken, Kenan Malik, Markha Valenta
This session reflects on various religious and secular narratives, attempting in the process to open up possible futures beyond that of a zero-sum “clash of civilizations.”
Lecture
10 March 2015
Art in the Face of Class Recompositions
In the lecture series Curating… Lectures from the exhibition maker’s practice, organized by the Museum for Contemporary Art, Basel and the Academy of Art and Design, Basel, BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova discusses Art in the Face of Class Recompositions.
Gathering
12 April 2019, 14.30-17.00
Let’s Mobilize for a Europe We Want: Voices of New Women
BAK, basis voor New Women Connectors
New Women Connectors and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht present the gathering Let’s Mobilize for a Europe We Want: Voices of New Women. The gathering is part of a series BAK, basis voor… in which BAK joins forces with other organizations in addressing shared urgencies and developing propositions for “being together otherwise”.
