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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Symposium

24 November 2022, 20.00-21.00

Mental Health Symposium: Communal Care & Healing

Community Portal hosts....

On Thursday, November 24th, 2022, Colored Qollective in collaboration with POCQunity host their third annual symposium, this time focusing on the mental health of queer people of color. The theme of the symposium is Communal Care & Healing.

Community Portal

Learning

10-12 March 2009

What is Critical about Critical Curatorial Practices

Lecture and studio visits at Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Enschede.

Lecture

3 June 2021, 18.30-20.00

FEINART Lecture: From Art Institution to Community Portal, by Maria Hlavajova

FEINART (The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art) is a PhD training network funded by the EU, in partnership with several universities and art spaces, amongst which BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. As part of the FEINART Lecture Series, BAK’s general and artistic director Maria Hlavajova presents […]

Learning

Exhibition

30 September–11 October 2020

HKU MA Fine Art Graduation Show: If Not Now

Graduation exhibition of the 2018−2020 MA Fine Art class at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht

From 30 September–11 October 2020, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht hosts If Not Now, the graduation exhibition of the 2018−2020 MA Fine Art class of HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, curated by Katia Krupennikova.

Learning

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