BAK, basis voor actuele kunst is a leading international platform for theoretically and politically informed experimental art and research. Based in Utrecht, BAK addresses the social, ideological and environmental urgencies of the present by combining public programming and exhibition creation with research, learning and talent development. By working with communities involved in the arts, activism and academia, and bringing together artists, scholars and other members of the precarious classes, BAK cultivates art as a public sphere and space for aesthetic-political experiments. Since its inception in 2000, BAK has systematically engaged in the development and testing of institutional models to best fit and further shape the dynamically evolving fields of discursive and politically engaged arts and their processes.