BAK is receiving an overwhelming amount of messages of support after the advice issued by the Utrecht Advisory Committee. Please read them below!
BAK is receiving an overwhelming amount of messages of support after the advice issued by the Utrecht Advisory Committee. Please read them below!

Program

Open Kitchen Weekender

b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN & Community Portal present Open Kitchen Weekender, a collaboration between different activists, researchers, brewers, artists & community kitchen practitioners.
17 October 2024
19 October 2024
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Program

Yallah Sabaya 2024

Join us on 4 October 2024 at BAK, Yallah Sabaya is happening again! All women of different cultural backgrounds are welcome to dance, chat, and connect with others also through movement and celebration.
4 October 2024
4 October 2024
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Statement

BAK is a crucial basis in the cultural ecosystem of Utrecht!

With shock and disbelief we have received the news that Raad voor Cultuur (Council for Culture) has advised the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to stop funding BAK, basis voor actuele kunst for the period 2025–2028.
6 June 2024
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Chloe Bass, Trainings for the Not-Yet (2019-2020), exhibition view, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, picture: Tom Janssen
Program

Responses to our Solidarity Call Out

After the advice issued by the Utrecht Advisory Committee to defund BAK, we are receiving an overwhelming amount of messages of support.
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Prospections

Usufructuaries of earth: a slow-growing reader

The “Usufructuaries of earth” focus on Prospections is a reader that undergirds the project as an usufructuary of knowledges, turning the research into a collective research and publishing resource.
7 April 2024
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Prospections
22 April 2024
Printing slogans as part of the “Undoi
Printing slogans as part of the “Undoing Debt” reading group which discussed A Feminist Reading of Debt, Kiosk, Rotterdam, 28 April 2024. Photo: Alexandra Martens Serrano
Prospections
15 April 2024
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Prospections
21 May 2024
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s online contribut
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s online contribution to the conversation “Life and Death Beyond the Boundary,” Usufructuaries of earth convention, 24 May 2024, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, photo: Tom Phillip Janssen
Prospections
8 April 2024
Marwa Arsanios, Chart for the Usership o
Marwa Arsanios, Chart for the Usership of Land, prints on paper, 2022, installation detail, Usufructuaries of earth, chpater one, exhibition, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Ten banners each depiciting a sentence that address the rig
Prospections
10 April 2024
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Program
24 September 2024
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Program
21 September 2024
21 September 2024
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Program
3 July 2024
5 July 2024
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Program
9 June 2024
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Program
2 June 2024
2 June 2024
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BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht is a base for art, theory, and social action. BAK is committed to the notion of art as a public sphere and a political space, and provides a critical platform for aesthetico-political experiments with and through art. BAK brings together artists, thinkers, and other members of the precarious classes to imagine and enact transformative ways of being together otherwise.

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