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.
Online Exhibition
14 September 2021 - Ongoing
An online exhibition conceptualized by Irit Rogoff and Nora Sternfeld for freethought collective.
Conversation
26 September 2021
The seventh and final gathering of Fragments of Repair/Gatherings, consisting of a conversation between Kader Attia, BAK general and artistic director Maria Hlavajova, and BAK curator Wietske Maas, and marking the conclusion of the exhibition Fragments of Repair/Kader Attia with the opportunity to visit the exhibition in the presence of the artist.
Lancering
16 October 2021
Launch of An Anecdoted Archive of Exhibition Lives at BAK, an online exhibition conceptualized by Irit Rogoff and Nora Sternfeld as part of freethought collective.
Performative conference
7 October 2017
Propositions #1: What We Mean begins from an urgency for—and uncertainty about—what living in non-fascist ways could and does mean.
Lecture Program
25 October–29 November 2007
Citizens and Subjects: Practices and Debates is part of the Dutch contribution to the 52nd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2007.
Education Program
29 June, 19.00–16 July, 21.00 2020
Due to popular demand, BAK Public Studies offers a rerun of the online course Art as Politics, taking place on the following dates: 29 June & 2, 6, 9, 13, and 16 July 2020.
This digital extension of BAK Public Studies, taught by Maria Hlavajova, is prompted by the urgency to continue collective thinking through, learning about, and imagining critical, politically-informed artistic practices that grasp—and intervene into—the present. Please note: this Open Call is now closed and the course is fully booked.
Reading Group
17 February 2016, 17.00
First reading group with Nicoline van Harskamp and invited readers Richard John Jones and Yoonis Osman Nuur.
