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
3 December 2005
On Rhetoric (language and new warfare)
Lectures by and discussion with Ayreen Anastas, Bregje van Eekelen, and Rene Gabri.
Exhibition
30 March–05 May 2019
The People Are the City
A two-part exhibition by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst at Utrecht City Office and The Utrecht Archives
The People Are the City is a two-part exhibition which takes place in the public areas of the Municipal Offices of the City of Utrecht and at The Utrecht Archives. The exhibition at the Utrecht City Office reflects on the extraordinary coming together of the people of Utrecht in the collective performance What Is the City but the People? on 15 September 2018. The second part of the show, on display at The Utrecht Archives, presents the new work Seven Addresses (2019) by artists’ duo Sander Breure and Witte van Hulzen.
Course
12 October, 19.00–16 November, 21.00 2021
Course: Art as Politics
An online course that was prompted by the urgency to engage in collective thinking through, learning about, and imagining critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp—and intervene into—the present. Taught by Maria Hlavajova, BAK’s general & artistic director.
Learning
19 April, 12.00–21 April, 18.00 2023
Ulises Friends School
In simplest terms, Ulises is a bookshop and project space dedicated to artists’ books and independent art publications. In truest terms, Ulises is a collection of musings, longings, and assorted activities brought together by a group of friends. This is to say that friendship is the medium, ethos, and structure of Ulises.
