Exhibition

18 April–02 August 2009

Urgent Matters

From Saturday, 18 April until Sunday, 2 August 2009, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven present Urgent Matters, a two-part solo exhibition by Sanja Ivekovic. The opening takes place on Saturday, 18 April 2009 at 14.00 hrs at the Van Abbemuseum and at 19.00 hrs at BAK.

A re-enactment of Ivekovic’s performance Übung Macht den Meister (Practice Makes a Master), originally realized in 1982 in Berlin, takes place at 20.00 hrs at BAK and is performed by Sonja Pregrad.

Publications

Book
Sanja Ivekovic: Urgent Matters

Exhibition text
In Short: Thoughts Behind the Exhibition
by Maria Hlavajova

Program

Seminar
28.05.2009
When is Feminism in Art? The Case of Sanja Ivekovic

In collaboration with

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For Sint Maarten Parade 2023, Tools for Action—a non-profit organization that develops artistic interventions for political actions—collaborates with Utrecht-based members of Filipino, Caribbean, and other communities to collectively dream a parade compartment.

Panel Discussion

30 September 2023, 16.30-18.30

To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall

A book launch and panel discussion reflecting on the Jina Uprising, one year after its beginning.

Saturday, 30 September, 2023, 16:30–18:30 hrs at BAK, basis actuele kunst, Utrecht Organized by Jina Collective, a Netherlands-based feminist, leftist, anti-capitalist, anti-sexist, and pro-LQBTQIA+ action group that emerged from the Jina Uprising. This event launches a book of translated essays, co-published with BAK, which include some of the first English translations of texts by journalists […]

Public Program

09 September–29 October 2023

To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023)/Public Program

To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) involves a hybrid off- and online sequence of conversations and screenings around discursive and artistic interventions that reimagine the social implications of watching the war through ways that disrupt, subvert, resist the media’s incessant spectacularization of war.