BAK on 'hku'
SCHEDULE: Open Kitchen Weekender
Thursday, 17 October 12:45 hrs – Arrival of workshop participants 13:00–17:30 hrs – Workshop Home Cheese Making…
(Dis)comfort Narratives: Moving with the Feeling
The diverse range of graduation projects sheds light on the tensions and proximities inherent in the interplay of eco-so…
BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew
Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, a long-time collaborator of BAK, who has recently joined the organization as artistic direct…
To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall
Saturday, 30 September, 2023, 16:30–18:30 hrs at BAK, basis actuele kunst, Utrecht Organized by Jina Collective, a N…
BAK Summer School: Supervising Artistic and Practice-based Research (Join online)
Join the propositions online via zoom through this link Andrea Philips: Monday 21 August, 13,30-14,30 CEST Mick Wils…
hku Graduation Project 2023: Refractions
The exhibition showcases works by the graduates and their collaborators, including Melissa Cijntje, Yuxuan Cui, Kexin Ho…
Repair & Listen
Episodes are based upon one-on-one conversations between the artist and Utrecht or internationally-based academics, stud…
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
See the day schedule below, and the full program here (PDF). Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise is a one-day …
Propositions #9/5: Public Program
This last day of the week of Propositions #9 Deserting from the Culture Wars consists of a public program including a pa…
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
Trainings, lectures, and panel discussions with Bini Adamczak; Kader Attia; Tom Holert; Sven Lütticken; Diana McCarty; …
Forensic Justice
From October 18, 2018 till January 27, 2019, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht presents Forensic Justice, an exhi…
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary marks the culmination of a vibrant and inspiring 2017/20…
Mahku Platform: Conversation with Jeanne van Heeswijk
Jeanne van Heeswijk’s projects are characterized by social engagement. Her aim is both to stimulate and develop cultur…
Test Department #1
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst presents Test Department #1, a project consisting of an exhibition and a series of convers…
Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right
Propositions #4: Unpacking Aesthetics and the Far Right is part of BAK’s long-term artistic research series and conven…
BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
The BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum is a collaborative and intensive learning week at BAK, basis voor ac…
BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise
The BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise is a collaborative and intensive learning week at BAK, basis vo…
Human-Inhuman-Posthuman
BAK Research Fellow: Prof. Rosi Braidotti, Director of Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Utrecht If art a…
Unevenly
Haegue Yang’s exhibition Unevenly challenges the concept of community by exploring, in the artist’s words, a “comm…
First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger
The group exhibition First Person Plural: Empathy, Intimacy, Irony, and Anger inquires into the emotional infrastructure…
The Molyneux Problem
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst presents the exhibition The Molyneux Problem, on view at BAK from 21 August till 29 Septem…
Learning Place: Screening and Discussion
On 4 September 2014 at 19.00 hrs, BAK’s site of education and talent development, Learning Place (LP), marks the begin…
Caulfield, Cauliflower, and other Vegetables (A Possible Dialectics On The Politics Of Misunderstanding)
From 24 June to 3 July 2016, BAK’s exhibition space is one of the venues for the Mahku graduation show Caulfield, Caul…
Un(fore)seen Cultures: Mapping the Urban Contemporary in Hong Kong and the Netherlands
On Friday 3 June 2016 BAK hosts Un(fore)seen Cultures. A result of the research exchange between students from the Human…
A Call for Drawings
“Thought is impossible without an image.” –Aristotle, On Memory and Reminiscence (450a) A Call for Drawings pr…
Lines of Thought
In the summer of 2015, BAK, together with artist, researcher, and lecturer Klaas Hoek, hosts a presentation of some of t…
ABiotic Factors
From 24 June to 9 July 2017, BAK hosts the Mahku graduation exhibition ABiotic Factors. The opening takes place on Frida…
Yuliia Elyas
Elyas’s research proposal for the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice focuses on a decolonial reimagining of the narr…
Mutual Support Platform
Mutual Support Platform The Mutual Support Platform (MSP) is a space for conversations and actions by/between/for studen…
Katia Krupennikova
Katia Krupennikova Curator and critic Katia Krupennikova is a docent at hku University of the Arts, Utrecht, and a part …
Nancy Jouwe
Nancy Jouwe is a cultural historian. She is Chairwoman of BAK Supervisory Board, co-founder of Framer Framed, and one of…
Klaas Hoek
Klaas Hoek (born 1950) is an artist, researcher, and lecturer. Hoek studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. F…
Marquard Smith
Dr. Marquard Smith is an academic, curator, programmer, founder and editor in chief of Journal of Visual Culture, and a…
Sepake Angiama
BAK 2017/2018 Fellow Sepake Angiama co-curates the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial …And Other Such Stories. As p…
Henk Slager
Henk Slager focust zich op onderzoek en beeldende kunst. Hij is hoofd van Mahku Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art an…
Annette Krauss
Annette Krauss is an artist and lecturer. Exploring the possibility of participatory practices, her often research-based…
Tiong Ang
He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and…
İnci Eviner
İnci Eviner - Co-Action Device. I rather laugh - performance - 23.03.2017 On Thursday 23 March 2017 BAK presents "Co-…
