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!

Statement

BAK announces Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries: Building Cultural Infrastructure Anew

Marking the beginning of a new phase, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht embarks upon a six-month period of thinking and planning.
1 January 2025
30 June 2025
Chloe Bass, Trainings for the Not-Yet (2
Chloe Bass, Trainings for the Not-Yet (2019-2020), exhibition view, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, picture: Tom Janssen
Program

Save the Date: Climate Propaganda Congregation

A new two-day congregation to study climate propaganda to propagate alternative presents and futures.
14 December 2024
15 December 2024
Climate Propagandas Congregation (2024),
Climate Propagandas Congregation (2024), BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jonas Staal. Image: Jonas Staal, 94 Million Years of Collectivism (2022), stills. Produced by Mardin Biennale.
Program

Rhythms/Performances of Subversion & Conformity

A symposium that centers on a table reading of Marival (1996) by Felix de Rooy, a landmark play about Caribbean queer experience in the shadow of Dutch postcolonialism.
1 December 2024
1 December 2024
Design: Theo France-Haggi
Design: Theo France-Haggi
Program

The Open Kitchen FreeShop

The FreeShop is a place where nothing is for sale, and everything is free.
29 October 2024
31 December 2024
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Program

Academia in the Face of Genocide

Lecture by Dr. Neve Gordon. Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Queen Mary University of London.
24 September 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
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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21 September 2024
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3 July 2024
5 July 2024
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9 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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