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
Symposium
7 December 2019
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise is a one-day public symposium on the civic practice of art institutions, organized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht on Saturday 7 December 2019, from 13-21 hrs. The symposium probes the question of how to institute spaces for art in the face of the pressing urgencies of the present.
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.
13-17 November 2019
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars is a week-long series of trainings, lectures, and panel discussions that seeks to bring together artists, theorists, and writers in a range of formats, to actively reflect upon this current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, also reffered to as the “culture wars.” How are these culture wars defined and waged?
Book Launch, Conversation
23 March 2015
Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe
On 23 March 2015, BAK artistic director Maria Hlavajova engages in a conversation with Rael Artel and Katarzyna Kosmala, on the occassion of the publication of the latter’s new edited collection Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe.
