With shock and disbelief we received the report from the Utrecht Advisory Committee on the Culture Memorandum, which proposes to defund BAK in 2025–2028. Read the statement below.
With shock and disbelief we received the report from the Utrecht Advisory Committee on the Culture Memorandum, which proposes to defund BAK in 2025–2028. Read the statement below.
Statement
BAK is a crucial basis in the cultural ecosystem of Utrecht!
With shock and disbelief we received the report from the Utrecht Advisory Committee on the Culture Memorandum, which proposes the defunding of BAK in 2025–2028. Read the statement here.
6 June 2024
Program
Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions
From 3–5 July, the Urban Futures Studio and Community Portal at BAK convene 30 artist-researcher-practitioners to explore this question. Three moments of the event are open to the public and free for registration below.
3 July 2024
5 June 2024
Program
(Dis)comfort Narratives: Moving with the Feeling
HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, in partnership with BAK presents (Dis)comfort Narratives: Moving with the Feeling, as the graduation event of the 2023–2024 Master Fine Art class.
19 June 2024
29 June 2024
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
Prospections
Palestine & the Commons: Or, Marx & the Musha’a
Charting the interconnectedness of capitalism, colonialism, and nationalism, Peter Linebaugh’s “Palestine & the Commons: Or, Marx & the Musha’a” speaks of “the violence of mapping, titling, buying, and selling which cast people into cities and camps following their expropriation from the land.”
8 April 2024
Program
7 March 2024
2 June 2024
Program
24 May 2024
25 May 2024
Prospections
22 April 2024
Prospections
21 May 2024
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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