1 April 2023
Program
From December 2022 till 1 April 2023, BAK’s physical site is temporarily closed for renovation. Please join us on 1 April 2023 for the festive opening of the building with a new project, Ultradependent Public School (1 April–27 May 2023)! Leading to this, multiple programs take place in collaboration with a multitude of artists, communities, and other venues in Utrecht and beyond, as well as on BAK’s digital forum Prospections.
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.
Calendar
Current & Upcoming
Exhibition
Suggestions from the archive
Educational platform
15-24 November 2013
New World Academy #1: Towards a People’s Culture
Educational platform realized with the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines. Thinking with Filipino artists, writers, theater makers and members of cultural collectives such as the Concerned Artists of the Philippines, participants developed a model for a transnational “People’s Trial” as a proposition for the performative exploration of art’s possibility vis-a-vis the circumstances of oppression and inequality.
1-30 November 2018
Museumkaart Offer: Bring A Guest
For the month of November 2018, Museumkaart holders can bring a guest without a Museumkaart free of charge to Forensic Justice.

Lecture
29 April 2016
Global Art Challenges 2016
Keynote lecture by Maria Hlavajova as part of a panel on “Art-as-Intervention-in-Reality: “Ecology of Knowledges” and Institutional Practices”.

Lecture
10 December 2005
On Mutation (post–Cold War and new order)
Lectures by and discussion with Viktor Misiano, Sean Snyder, and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.