In the now thirty conversations that make up the BK podcast Het kan ook anders, many themes come up. One of the recurring themes is the functioning of artists in a demanding art world. This is already no easy task for healthy artists, but how do you do it if you do not conform to ‘the perfect picture,’ if you...

Unexpected and violent tipping points in the lives and professional practices of artists, can lead to chaos. In the objective reality - for example, in the case of a fire in the studio - or in the mind, for example, in the case of drastic personal events that have a strong influence on daily functioning. Life and work can be temporarily so chaotic....

Subscribers to BK-information have an edge. On Friday morning, March 27, we are organizing the annual BK lecture during Art Rotterdam. We offer subscribers the opportunity to attend that lecture in conjunction with the fair.

Read the essay The Usefulness of Rest Here On Oct. 1, BK Information launched its new podcast. In Het kan ook anders. About tipping points in artists' practice, philosopher and art expert Esther Didden talks to a visual artist every week for a year about changes and transitions in their work. It's about tipping points - internal or...

On Oct. 1, 2025, BK Information launched its new podcast. Under the title (and subtitle) Het kan ook anders. About tipping points in artists' practice, philosopher and art expert Esther Didden talks to a visual artist every week for a year about changes and transitions in their work. It's about tipping points - internally or externally motivated - that...

In parallel with the 52-part podcast series It Can Be Different, eight essays are published on topics that touch on the podcast's subject matter and/or come up in the interviews. The first introductory mini-essay examines the concepts of change and transition. 

Essay by Christiaan Weijts on the ten-part podcast series "What Is That Doing Here?" which portrays nine visual art projects that explicitly address social issues. Writer and essayist Christiaan Weijts examines how they cast the time-honored discussion of autonomy and engagement in a new light.

In the tenth and final episode of our podcast What's That Doing Here, Esther Didden sat down with six artists who were all featured in one of the earlier episodes in this series.

In the ninth episode of the podcast What's That Doing Here, Esther Didden and co-host Birte ten Hoopen spoke with visual artist and human rights activist Elke Uitentuis and co-director of Framer Framed Cas Bool.

In the eighth episode of the podcast What is that doing here? Esther Didden and co-host Kamiel Verschuren spoke with visual artists Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer, and with filmmaker Floor Hofman. They also spoke with Nanda Lippens of Reinaerde. Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer have been working with care organization Reinaerde for years. Together with...

In the seventh episode of the podcast "What is that doing here?" Esther Didden and co-host Kamiel Verschuren spoke with visual artists Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit. Nicoline Wijnja of Kunstpunt Groningen also participated in the conversation.

In the sixth episode of the podcast "What's That Doing Here," Esther Didden and co-host Rachel Bacon spoke with visual artist Tirzo Martha and his good friends Kitty Zijlmans and Rob Perree.

Artists should not just show with their work that things are going badly with nature, but go a step further and really make a difference, said Stefan Cools in "What is that doing here?

Ida van der Lee talks about her project Names and Numbers in Amsterdam's Oosterpark neighborhood. In the fourth episode of the podcast What is this doing here, Esther Didden and co-host Rachel Bacon talk to her. We also hear Wendela Kloosterman, one of the volunteers closely involved in the project.

In the third episode of our podcast "What is that doing here?" Esther Didden and co-host Khadija al Mourabit spoke with general director Thijs Middeldorp and artistic director Harpo 't Hart of the Embassy of the North Sea. They also spoke with Laura Burgers, writer and lawyer, working at the University of Amsterdam and member of the...

"There is a need in our society for artists to set goals that politics leaves out," is the thesis of the second episode of our podcast series What is that doing here? In this episode, Esther Didden and co-host Khadija al Mourabit spoke with artist Melle Smets about Huis van de Toekomst in Rotterdam.

Esther Didden and co-host Khadija al Mourabit talk with artists Albert Dedden and Paul Keizer (the Space Cowboys) about the Slavery Monument they made for Tilburg. Also speaking is Eardly van der Geld, president of the Foundation Shared Past, Shared Future Tilburg, one of informal commissioners of the Tilburg Slavery Monument. The formal patron is...

Under the title What's That Doing Here, BK Information is bringing you a ten-part podcast series about artists and the social issues they deal with. We launched the first episode on Nov. 4.