WELCOME TO BAM

BAM is the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art. It functions as an independent organisation that supports the visual, audiovisual and media art scene by providing information about the field at home and abroad, by analysing the needs of the sector, and by stimulating the practice of artists and art organisations.

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, click 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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Documents in focus
  • Visual Arts Platform (VAP)
    26/10/2011
  • Contemporary Visual Arts in Flanders - part I [text]
    Marc Ruyters, Eva Wittocx, 2008

    Among 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.

  • The Flemish Art Scene
    27/01/2009

    Read 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.

  • Possibilities for an Art Policy for Peripherial Regions in the World of the Contemporary Visual Arts [text]
    Pascal Gielen, 2008

    Pascal 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 ...

Database

Persons
This database contains information about a selection of artists and professionals active in the contemporary visual, audiovisual and media art sector in Flanders. 

Organisations

This database of organisations collects, among others, a selection of organisations in the professional contemporary visual and media arts field in Flanders.

Creations
The creation database contains information about creations, based on discipline and type, made by artists who live or work in Flanders.