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 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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Program

Research Interrupted

Research Interrupted is a week-long presentation of the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice 2023–2024, where the artists invite the public to engage with their ongoing research.
24 July 2024
28 July 2024
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Program

Research Interrupted: works on display

Please find more information about all the works that will be on display in the exhibition space as part of the week-long presentation Research Interrupted.
24 July 2024
28 July 2024
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Program

Research Interrupted: workshops and events

Please find more information about the workshops and events as part of the week-long presentation Research Interrupted by the BAK fellows in Utrecht and Istanbul.
26 July 2024
27 July 2024
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Program
7 March 2024
2 June 2024
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth,
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth, installation view BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2024, photo: Tom Janssen
Program
8 April 2024
Design: Sean van Steenhoven
Design: Sean van Steenhoven
Program
24 May 2024
25 May 2024
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth,
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth, installation view BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2024, photo: Tom Janssen
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
Program
24 May 2024
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Prospections
7 April 2024
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Prospections
20 May 2024
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Prospections
15 April 2024
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Prospections
10 April 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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