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

Suggestions from the archive

Learning

22 April, 11.00–23 April, 17.00 2023

Ultrastudio XXL

Ultrastudio investigates the act of publishing as a technique to build more habitable communities. It is convened by the BookBinding Workshop of Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (designers Miquel Hervás Gómez and Ott Metusala) together with cultural worker and housing rights advocate Lila Athanasiadou.

Congress

29 September 2012

3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Part Two

Following the deliberations during Part One titled Beyond What Was Contemporary Art (April 2012, Vienna), Part Two of the 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress takes place on 29 September 2012 and bases its discussions on a question ushered in—somewhat unexpectedly—by theorist and curator Irit Rogoff in her closing keynote address for Part One: “What on earth do they mean when they say art?”

Public Program

Learning

19-20 October 2020

Public Studies: Practice as Theory (online), with Tony Cokes

A two-day workshop by artist Tony Cokes, in the framework of exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals

As a part of the exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals, the artist presents a two-day workshop investigating critical themes that circulate through his work, and various intersections with and applications of forms of the theoretical.