It is with immense sadness that we have learned of curator, critic, art historian, poet, and friend Okwui Enwezor’s untimely death on Friday 15 March 2019. He was, and will continue to be, an unwavering, committed, and generous force who has changed the terms of and possibilities in contemporary culture. His work and his collaborations with BAK and FORMER WEST have been of extraordinary importance to us, and full of warmth and joy. His critical style and ideas will continue to teach and move us to question and change the unjust structures through which we work and live. Dear Okwui, our gratitude is boundless. — BAK

Program

Summer School

22-26 July 2019

BAK Summer School: Art as Politics

BAK Summer School: Art as Politics brings together those involved in arts, academia, and social action to collectively think through, learn about, and imagine critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp and influence our dramatically changing times. Deadline for applications: 1 May 2019.

BAK Summer School

Fellowship

Fellow 2018/2019

Jessica de Abreu

Jessica de Abreu is an anthropologist, curator, and activist who graduated from the departments of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Culture, Organization and Management at VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Her passionate commitment to the field of African Diaspora has led to research on upward social mobility in New York, Amsterdam, and London. Her recent research […]

Fellow 2018/2019

Thiago de Paula Souza

Curator and educator Thiago de Paula Souza is a member of the 10th Berlin Biennale curatorial team, titled We Don´t Need Another Hero, 2018. He has done an MA in Art History at The University of Campinas UNICAMP, Campinas, worked as an educator at Museu AfroBrasil, São Paulo (2014–2016), and co-curated the exhibition Living On […]

Fellow 2018/2019

Mick Wilson

Professor Mick Wilson is an artist, educator, and researcher. He has been Head of Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (2012–2018); Co-Editor-in-Chief of PARSE Journal (2015–2017); and Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Dublin (2008–2012). He is a visiting faculty member at Bard CCS, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2013–ongoing), and in Curatorial Practice […]

Fellow 2018/2019

Katayoun Arian

Katayoun Arian is a researcher, curator, and writer with a background in art history (Leiden University, Leiden) and a Master’s degree in organization science (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam). Her projects range from exhibitions, discursive events, and screenings to reading circles and other forms of interdisciplinary and collaborative work. Curatorial projects include Grada Kilomba: Illusions, Witte de […]

Fellow 2018/2019

Jeanne van Heeswijk

Jeanne van Heeswijk is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalize the local.” Her long-scale community-embedded projects question art’s autonomy by combining performative actions, discussions, and other forms of organizing and pedagogy in order to assist communities to take control of their futures. Her work has […]

Fellow 2018/2019

Patricia Kaersenhout

Born in the Netherlands but a descendant from Surinamese parents, visual artist, activist, and womanist Patricia Kaersenhout developed an artistic journey in which she investigates her Surinamese background in relation to her upbringing in a west European culture. Her work raises questions about the African Diaspora’s movements and its relations to feminism, sexuality, racism, and […]

Fellow 2018/2019

Lukáš Likavčan

Lukáš Likavčan is a researcher and theorist. Originally trained as a philosopher, he elaborates on topics of philosophy of technology, political ecology, and media theory. Oscillating between academic practice and a broad zone in between art and design, he focuses on infrastructural conditions of subjectivity, abstraction, and imagination. Likavčan studied philosophy and environmental humanities at […]

Fellow 2018/2019

Haseeb Ahmed

Haseeb Ahmed is an artist and educator.

Fellow 2018/2019

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh

Artist Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh studied history, photography, and visual anthropology in Paris. In 2018, she received her PhD from the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. From 2006 to 2011 she lived in Burj Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp next to Tyre, where she carried out photographic research, […]

Fellow 2018/2019

Charl Landvreugd

Charl Landvreugd is an artist, writer, and curator working on mapping a continental European artistic environment that emerges from migrant aesthetics. His PhD dissertation at the Royal College of Art in London looked at Dutch Afro citizenship and belonging and how this is expressed in contemporary art. Landvreugd holds an MA in Modern Art/Critical Theory […]

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