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

09 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing

Join Our Crowdfunding Campaign: Support Freefilmers!

The project To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) and the project To Watch the War, In Solidarity are accompanied by a crowdfunding campaign in support of Freefilmers—some of its members are artists and activist filmmakers included in the exhibition and public program.

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living

Exhibition

22 September–08 December 2023-Ongoing

To Watch the War: In Solidarity

This impromptu presentation is a part of a long-term series under the same title, related to the image forum To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) at BAK, taking place between 9 September and 29 October 2023.

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living

Exhibitionary

8-7 March 2024-Ongoing

Yallah Sabaya

Community Portal Hosts… Yallah Sabaya Join us on 8 March 2024 at BAK, Yallah Sabaya is happening again! “Come on ladies, let’s have fun together,” would be a good translation of yallah sabaya. All women of different cultural backgrounds are welcome to dance, chat, and connect with others also through movement and celebration. 8 March 2024, […]

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living

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Screening

15 July 2021, 18.30-20.00

Fragments of Repair/Gathering VI: Invisible Bridges

A public program realized in the framework of the multi-part project Fragments of Repair

Taking place on Thursday 15 July 2021, the sixth gathering of Fragments of Repair/Gatherings, consists of a screening of artist Kader Attia’s Reason’s Oxymorons (2015) and a conversation between Kader Attia (Berlin) and Stefania Pandolfo (medical anthropologist, Berkeley, CA).

Training

1-2 November 2019

Training XII: Symposium Voices of New Women

Symposium for and by refugee and migrant women by New Women Connectors and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht

The twelfth training as part of Trainings for the Not-Yet is a symposium for and by refugee & migrant women by New Women Connectors and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst. Also part of the longterm-project BAK, basis voor…

Congress

19-20 April 2012

3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress: Beyond What Was Contemporary Art

The 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Part One: Beyond What Was Contemporary Art is developed by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and co-curated by Marion von Osten, FORMER WEST research advisor and Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Former West

BAK, basis voor...

2 March 2019, 14.00-17.00

Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Women

BAK, basis voor New Women Connectors

New Women Connectors and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht present the gathering Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Women. Utrecht for Her: Voices of New Women gathers refugee and migrant women from all backgrounds to learn about and share challenges that women newcomers experience, and how to veer these challenges toward solutions for policy and community forums to act upon effectively.

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