WELCOME AT BAM
BAM is the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art. It functions as an independent organisation that provides information, and encourages development and networking - both within the visual arts fields and crossing boundaries into other disciplines.
BAM encourages collaboration and exchange between Flemish organisations and institutions abroad and tries to increase the interest in and knowledge of the Flemish art scene abroad through an international communication and by organising a visitors programme for foreign art professionals. In order to read more on the activities of BAM in 2010 - 2011, klick here.
BAM is funded by the Flemish Community and is based in Ghent, Belgium. For more information on the arts scene in Belgium's French-speaking community (Wallonia and Brussels), you can contact SAP (Plastic Arts Department of the French-speaking Community of Belgium), and the DGLive website has information on the cultural policy of Belgium's German-speaking community.
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Joining the dots. Conference on sustainable international arts policies
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23/06/2010On October 25-26th, different supporting institutions for the arts in Flanders will organize a two-day conference on sustainable international culture policies in the context of the Belgian EU presidency.
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New lay-out for Arts Flanders newsletter and website
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24/06/2010In order to make ‘Arts Flanders’ an even more attractive platform for the international visitor, a new lay-out has been designed.
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E-culture fair 2010: connecting creativity, art and research
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23/06/2010E‐CULTURE FAIR 2010 will be showcasing innovative projects in the cross-over fields of creative industry, research, education, art and design from Flanders, the Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia from 23 till 25 August in the brand new Centre for Art and Creativity 'Dortmunder U' . E‐Culture Fair 2010 is exhibited projects, information stands, live presentations and demonstrations, workshops and performances.
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Contemporary Visual Arts in Flanders
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Marc Ruyters, Eva Wittocx, 2008Among the modern-art crowd, Belgium is known as the country with that 'surrealist' lineage: James Ensor - René Magritte - Marcel Broodthaers. While this is certainly a fine compliment for three artists of far-reaching significance, a great deal has changed in this country, which has been a crossroads of the Roman and Germanic cultures, a key logistic point between Great Britain, Germany and France, and home to the European Community.
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Possibilities for an Art Policy for Peripherial Regions in the World of the Contemporary Visual Arts
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Pascal Gielen, 2008Pascal Gielen tries to identify the effects of globalization on the world of visual arts by means of empirical research and offers suggestions for an artistic policy for regions that are not in and of themselves at the centre of the artistic world ...
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The Flemish Art Scene
27/01/2009Read more about the Flemish art scene in several texts offering an introduction for those not yet acquainted with the Flemish art field. We hope this will contribute to better knowledge and a discursive forum about the Flemish art scene.
Database
Persons
This person database contains information about visual and media art professionals, including a database of artists. The artist database offers an overview of professionally working artists who live or work in Flanders.
Organisations
This database of organizations collects, among others, a selection of organizations in the professional contemporary visual and media arts field in Flanders.
Creations
The creation database contains information about creations, based on disciplines and type, made by artists who live or work in Flanders.
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