BAK on 'publication'
Spectral Infrastructure
Concerning War
Concerning “Knowledge Production”
A multifaceted project consisting of research, discussions, publications, a series of lectures, and dialogues by and wit…
Citizens and Subjects
Future Vocabularies
Reading group Amman
May 2024 (precise dates and locations TBC) Convened by Aya Bseiso with Bahaleen collective, Amman More information t…
OPEN CALL: Reading groups
…s convened by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht with artist Marwa Arsanios Chapter two, reading groups and online …
Chapter three, convention
…comrade b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN and co-convenor Community Portal, Utrecht), Wietske Maas (BAK curator of research and …
Chapter two, reading groups and online publication
The “Usufructuaries of earth” focus on BAK’s online publishing forum Prospections is a slow-growing reader that u…
Usufructuaries of earth
…he earth’s usufruct. Unfolding in three eponymous chapters, it consists of an exhibition with artworks by Arsanios; a …
Ulises Friends School
…by Ulises In simplest terms, Ulises is a bookshop and project space dedicated to artists’ books and independent art …
Ultrastudio XXL
…ng Copy (Manual of Manuals) takes place, followed by a copy party where the public is invited to photocopy and bind our …
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
…d. Over the past twenty years, BAK has been developing this notion through various multifaceted programs, research, and …
Küba/Paradise
In the exhibition Kutluğ Ataman: Küba/Paradise two major video installations by Kutluğ Ataman are on view. Each work …
Alone Again (In the Likeness of Life)
The works by Althea Thauberger contain social and political allegories with an almost purist and vivid visuality. This i…
The Day After Yesterday
In the exhibition The Day after Yesterday Roman Ondák shows three new works, which register performative moments he ins…
The Return of Religion and Other Myths
…the exhibition The Art of Iconoclasm, a discourse program taking place in early 2009 titled On Post-Secularism, and the …
I, the Undersigned
From Friday, 21 May until Sunday, 1 August, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst presents I, the Undersigned, the first solo ex…
Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum
The Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in a Time of Interregnum is a collaborative and intensive learning week in Bratisl…
Propositions #6: The Temporary Institute for the Contemporary
…allejos Lecture and conversation, mezzanine Matthijs de Bruijne and Cecilia Vallejos present excerpts of the digital …
Gerrit Dekker: About no below, no above, no sides
After more than a fifteen-year-long voluntary withdrawal from the structures of the art world, Gerrit Dekker presents hi…
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…
Other Survivalisms
…s the second installment of its public editorial meetings geared towards the realization of the forthcoming FORMER WEST …
New World Academy #1: Towards a People’s Culture
…nd union organizer, Amsterdam) and Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei (philosopher and publisher, Tirana). The accompanying …
New World Academy #2: Collective Struggle of Refugees. Lost. In Between. Together.
… Center, Amsterdam), and Elke Uitentuis (artist and activist, We Are Here Action Center, Amsterdam). The accompanying …
New World Academy #3: Leaderless Politics
…l.org, Bristol) and design collective Foundland (Ghalia Elsrakbi & Lauren Alexander, Amsterdam). The accompanying …
Survival
The project Future Vocabularies is initiated in 2014 with an opening vocabulary entry on survival. It is envisioned as a…
Human-Inhuman-Posthuman
BAK Research Fellow: Prof. Rosi Braidotti, Director of Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, Utrecht If art a…
Future Collections
…Future Collections. While Future Vocabularies (2014–2016) is a discourse-driven research, learning, exhibition, and …
Report (Not Announcement)
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, in collaboration with e-flux (electronic flux corporation) and curated by Binna Choi, pre…
Unevenly
Haegue Yang’s exhibition Unevenly challenges the concept of community by exploring, in the artist’s words, a “comm…
Olga Chernysheva: In the Middle of Things
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst presents the exhibition In the Middle of Things by Olga Chernysheva, on view at BAK from 2…
Call the Witness
The exhibition Call the Witness includes works by seven extraordinary artists who actively work from within and beyond t…
The Molyneux Problem
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst presents the exhibition The Molyneux Problem, on view at BAK from 21 August till 29 Septem…
Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere
Curated by Cosmin Costinas, the exhibition Spacecraft Icarus 13: Narratives of Progress from Elsewhere presents a number…
AICA Award
…list of exhibitions on the border of contemporary art, politics and the community. Discussions, lectures, workshops and …
The Social Studio
The exhibition Artur Zmijewski: The Social Studio presents a selection of recent works by Artur Zmijewski, including vid…
Once is Nothing
From 19 October 2008 until 4 January 2009, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven present …
Urgent Matters
From Saturday, 18 April until Sunday, 2 August 2009, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht and the Van Abbemuseum in …
Surplus Value
…pecially for this exhibition. On the occasion of Surplus Value BAK and post editions, Rotterdam release the monographic …
Dicht Bij
From Sunday, 24 January until Sunday, 28 March 2010, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst presents Dicht Bij, a solo exhibition…
expo zéro
On Friday and Saturday, 16–17 April 2010, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst presents the public days of expo zéro, a proj…
Vectors of the Possible
Curated by Simon Sheikh, the exhibition Vectors of the Possible at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst includes contributions …
Christoph Schlingensief: Fear at the Core of Things
Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) was one of the most seminal if controversial theater, film, and contemporary art f…
After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer
The exhibition unveils for the first time to the public the unique visual work of Russian-born French philosopher and di…
How Much Fascism?
…orn 1955) is an artist who creates ordinary situations, conducting exchanges with people, performing tasks, even making …
New World Summit #4, Stateless State
On 19–21 September 2014, the fourth New World Summit, titled Stateless State, takes place at the Royal Flemish Theatre…
FORMER WEST: Notes from Berlin
…—and, with it, the world otherwise… FORMER WEST (2008–2016) is a long-term research, education, exhibition, and …
Caulfield, Cauliflower, and other Vegetables (A Possible Dialectics On The Politics Of Misunderstanding)
…ano, and Felipe Zapata Zuluaga. To mark the exhibition Caulfield, Cauliflower, and other Vegetables, MaHKU launches a …
Art and Labor After the End of Work
…of 2014–2016 through a series of Public Editorial Meetings, leading to the realization of the forthcoming FORMER WEST …
There is a Crack in the Museum of History. Is That How the Future Gets in?
…ver the course of 2014–16 through a series of public editorial meetings leading to the realization of the FORMER WEST …
Sexing the Border: Gender, Art and New Media in Central and Eastern Europe
…istic director Maria Hlavajova engages in a conversation with Rael Artel and Katarzyna Kosmala, on the occassion of the …
Book Launch of Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989
….30 hrs in Studio A, Barriedale Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. To launch the …
Palestine & the Commons: Or, Marx & the Musha’a
This separation is situated in a vast history of coloniality as capitalist development: violence, land grabbing, regulat…
Usufructuaries of earth: a slow-growing reader
The reader emerges, to begin with, as a constellation of archival texts assembled here through the “Usufructuaries of …
The Hauntologists
It includes new texts, archival resources, interviews and other research-artistic contributions that bring together the …
To Read the War
“To Read the War” is an assemblage of texts, visual essays, interviews, conversations, and even entire publications …
Iridescent Ammunitions: Time Travel as Survival
While coloniality has enforced an externalization of time and space as things outside the body, Sengupta affirms practic…
Maidan and (8 Years) After: State of the Ukrainian Left
… (neo)oligarchic rule; and subsequently, her involvement in helping women impacted by the war in eastern Ukraine. The re…
Standing With Ukraine
Standing With the Oppressed”—an ongoing publication of material such as texts, documentation, and live online events…
NO TO WAR!!!
In these dark days, we stand in solidarity with the millions of residents of Ukraine whose lives are endangered and irre…
Kahanoff’s Levantinism: The Anachronic Possibilities of a Concept
After the Six-Day War, the Egyptian-born Israeli writer Jacqueline Kahanoff deployed the notion of Levantinism to challe…
