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
2 December 2006
Inter-discipline or Non-discipline?
Lectures by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Mariana Castillo Deball, Bruno Latour, and Anne van der Zwaag.
Exhibition
07 March–02 June 2024
Usufructuaries of earth
Chapter one: exhibition
The exhibition foregrounds the artist’s collaborative approach to bringing together ecological, feminist, and decolonial knowledges and practices that put forward ideologies of usufruct, unhinging property-relations from the idiom of individuated possession and toward forms of common userships between humans and other-than-humans.
Public Editorial Meeting
13-14 May 2015
There is a Crack in the Museum of History. Is That How the Future Gets in?
FORMER WEST Public Editorial Meeting. There is a Crack in the Museum of History. Is That How the Future Gets in? explores the final collapse of the teleology of the so-called post-communist transition to democracy, and one of its most striking symptoms: the fetishistic obsession of our political and artistic imagination with the past.
Book Launch, Conversation
31 May 2017, 18.30
Book Launch of Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989
A conversation with Maria Hlavajova, Suhail Malik, Irit Rogoff, Simon Sheikh, and Marina Vishmidt
On Wednesday 31 May 2017 is the London launch of Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989. Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989 has been published in the context of the curatorial and artistic research experiment FORMER WEST (2008–2016), developed by BAK and realized through manifold partnerships with artists, theorists, activists, as well as art and educational institutions transnationally.
