Please note: the BAK building is temporarily closed, due to the current Covid-19 lockdown in the Netherlands. In the meantime, BAK offers an online program, including the digital forum Prospections, and online gatherings as part of the project Fragments of Repair (17 April–1 August 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 (2017–2020) 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.
Learning
13 April–10 May 2021
The BAK post-academic research Fellowship for Situated Practice is now open for applications from Netherlands-based practitioners working at the intersections of art, theory, and social action. The deadline for applications is 9 May 2021, 24.00 hrs CEST.
Multi-part Project
17 April–01 August 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.
Collective study program
17 April–03 July 2021
A collective study program realized in the framework of the multi-part project Fragments of Repair (17 April–1 August 2021), convened by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht with artist Kader Attia and La Colonie, Paris and hosted by La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues, Pantin, Paris.
Public Program
17 April–03 July 2021
Fragments of Repair/Gatherings involves an online series of lectures, conversations, screenings, and assembly forums convened by BAK around the theory and practice of repair.
Exhibition
17 April–01 August 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.
Screening
2 May 2021
The second gathering of Fragments of Repair/Gatherings consists of a screening of artist Kader Attia’s work The Body’s Legacies, Part 2: The Postcolonial Body (video, 2018, 48 min.), followed by a conversation between Olivier Marboeuf (writer, critic, and curator, Paris) and Ruth Wilson Gilmore (abolitionist scholar and activist, Lisbon).
Exhibition
10 February–15 April 2018
Exhibition with works by Matthijs de Bruijne as well as Jeremy Deller, Piero Gilardi, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. A large part of the exhibition is dedicated to De Bruijne’s cooperation with the Union of Cleaners of the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV) (2011–ongoing), analyzing ways of bringing together art and social struggles.
Lecture
18 April 2015, 11.00
Lecture by Bruno Latour with response by Anna Tsing. Part of the Anthropocene Observatory project at BAK, this gathering centers around the so-called Anthropocene thesis that identifies our present time as a geological epoch defined by human disturbance of Earth’s ecosystems.
Seminar
2 November 2007
Seminar with Marion von Osten and Kathrin Rhomberg.
Education Program
9 September 2014, 19.00
Inauguration of New World Embassy: Azawad, which explores the intersection of art, theory, and activism through the proposition of temporarily instituting an operational Azawadian embassy as an extraterritorial space of representation, negotiation, and international exchange.
