From 5 June 2021 the BAK building is open again! Come visit the current exhibition Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia (17 April–26 September 2021).
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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.
Multi-part Project
17 April–26 September 2021
A multi-part project convened by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht with artist Kader Attia and decolonial forum La Colonie, Paris. Including an exhibition, a collective study program, and a series of gatherings. Online opening program on Saturday 17 April 2021, 13.30–18.00 hrs CEST.
Public Program
17 April–26 September 2021
Fragments of Repair/Gatherings involves an online/offline series of lectures, conversations, screenings, and assembly forums convened by BAK around the theory and practice of repair.
Exhibition
17 April–26 September 2021
Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia is the first comprehensive exhibition of Attia’s work in the Netherlands, taking place at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht.
Podcast and sound installation
17 April–26 September 2021
Throughout the duration of the project Fragments of Repair, Kader Attia engages in creating a new work in the form of a gradually unfolding podcast and sound installation in twelve parts, titled Repair & Listen.
01 July–06 August 2021
Exhibitionary
15 July–15 August 2021
From 15 July until 15 August 2021 the work Oil and Sugar #2 (2007) by Kader Attia is presented in a window of De Voorkamer, as part of Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia.
Exhibition
24 January–28 March 2010
Exhibition by Lawrence Weiner.
Education Program
23 October–27 November 2018
“Art and Politics” is an inaugural course of a new public school for art and politics organized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht. In six weekly sessions, the participants learn about how contemporary art relates to the political in an accessible way.
Lecture
11 January 2009
This session reflects on various religious and secular narratives, attempting in the process to open up possible futures beyond that of a zero-sum “clash of civilizations.”
Exhibitionary
16 October, 08.00–29 November, 23.59 2020
As part of exhibition Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals, Cokes’s video work c.my.skull.2. (Evil.13: Alternate Versions) is screened in public space until 29 November 2020! The work is on view in the window of Stadhuisbrug 5 (until Monday 2 November 2020), and in the window of Utrecht City Hall, Stadhuisbrug 1 (until Sunday 29 November 2020).
