In 2023, Basel Social Club returned for its second edition in the industrial setting of the former Thomy mayonnaise factory near Messeplatz. This large-scale venue hosted an expansive exhibition of nearly 1000 artworks, presented by a broad mix of galleries and artist run spaces. Set across massive concrete silos and factory halls, the space amplified the collective energy of the event with a vibrant program of performances, music, food and bars that drew over 30,000 visitors throughout the week.
Performance Program
Sunday, June 11
4pm Ananda Jade
Monday, June 12
7pm Die wilden Unterhosen
9pm Triple Ex
Tuesday, June 13
8pm Les Reines Prochaines
9pm Wildlife Preservation Society
Wednesday, June 14
4pm Klodin Erb with Filipa Ramos and Gioia Da Molin (book presentation)
6pm DIVAS
7pm Maitha Abdalla
8pm Esben Weile Kjær and the Basel Black Ravens
9pm PRICE
10pm Mykki Blanco
Thursday, June 15
4pm Espinoza
8:30pm YESH and Jamira Estrada
9pm Gigiotto von Alt
Friday, June 16
3pm HMOT
7pm Rosin Octet
9pm Dan Bodan
Saturday, June 17
3pm HMOT
3pm / 5:30pm / 7pm IMMERSION: Haus Gawaling x Marie Matusz x Yannis Christ x Snow Lion
8pm Somatic Rituals & Pasaporteman
10pm James Massiah
Sunday, June 18
3pm Charlotte Horn
Ongoing Performances & Special Projects
Danh Vo
Jessie Holmes’ Mini Jobs
Juliette Blightman
Nicolas S. Streichenberg
Sister Press, Sister Library, Sister Radio
Youth by Gina Folly
Whispering Bar
and PNEU by Selina Traun
A critical guide by HYBRID PROJECT SPACE and signage, created in collaboration with Cem A. (@freeze_magazine), aim to make the invisible visible.
Cinema
Program Duration: 147’53”, ongoing. The Video Program is curated by Mohamed Almusibli for Kino Süd by Weiss Falk, Basel/ Zurich.
Anna Franceschini: “POLISTIRENE”, 2007, 12’14”
Shuang Li: “I Want To Sleep More But By Your Side”, 2020, 25’25”
Sophia Al-Maria: “Slaughter”, 2013, 05’53”
Aziz Hazara: “Takbir”, 2022, 09’57”
Majid Al-Remaihi: “And Then They Burn The Sea”, 2021, 12’38”
Sohrab Hura: “The Coast”, 2020, 17’28”
Peng Zuqiang: “Sight Leak”, 2022, 12’15”
Valentin Noujaïm: “Pacific Club”, 2023, 16’37”
Rashiyah Elanga: “Another Dream Under the Troposphere”, 2023, 18’11”
Chris Kauffmann: “Promised I Was Trying”, 2022, 17’15”
Exhibition Participants
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Maitha Abdalla (Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger | KBH.G, Basel)
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi (Amore, Basel)
Eva Aeppli (Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel)
Ester Alemayehu Hatle (Palazzina, Basel)
Taslima Ahmed (Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin)
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (Galerie Molitor, Berlin)
Sónia Almeida (Simone Subal Gallery, New York)
Elena Alonso (Galerie Fabian Lang, Zurich)
Osama Alrayyan (Galleria Federico Vavassori, Milan)
Mathis Altmann (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris)
Tamina Amadyar (Meyer Riegger, Berlin/ Karlsruhe)
Matthew Antezzo (Nicolas Krupp, Basel)
John Armleder (Massimo de Carlo)
Fabienne Audéoud (Tonus, Paris)
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Yael Bartana (Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv/ Zurich)
Pierre Bellot (Art : Concept, Paris)
Giulio Bertelli (gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich)
Kévin Blinderman (Bonny Poon / Conditions, Toronto)
Juliette Blightman (Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin)
Anne Bourse (Crèvecœur, Paris)
Tina Braegger (Weiss Falk, Basel/ Zurich)
Olaf Breuning (von Bartha, Basel)
Stefan Burger (Mayday, Basel)
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Divas Collective (Amore, Basel)
Victoria Colmegna (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris)
Wee Colors (Cordova, Barcelona)
Matt Copson (Clearing, Brussels / New York)
Matt Copson (High Art, Paris)
Adam Cruces (Blue Velvet Project, Zurich)
Catherine Czudej (Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York)
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Yoko Daihara (Take Ninagawa, Tokyo)
Brice Dellsperger (Air de Paris, Paris)
Manuela Morales Délano (Amore, Basel)
Thea Djordjadze (Kaufmann Repetto, Milan)
Sarah Dwyer (Galerie Fabian Lang, Zurich)
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Benjamin Echeverria (Francis Irv, New York)
Marianne Eigenheer (von Bartha, Basel)
Louis Eisner (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris)
Klodin Erb (Istituto Svizzero, Rome)
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Hadi Falapishi (Champ Lacombe, Biarritz)
Mounir Fatmi (Wilde, Basel)
Rochelle Feinstein (STUDIOLI, Rome)
Azize Ferizi (Cherish, Geneva)
Gina Fischli (Karma International, Zurich)
Sylvie Fleury (Karma International, Zurich)
Claire Fontaine (Air de Paris, Paris)
Claire Fontaine (Galerie Neu, Berlin)
Katrin Fridriks (BC Gallery, Basel)
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Audrey Gair (King’s Leap, New York)
Vidya Gastaldon (Wilde, Basel)
Karl Gerstner (Galerie Knoell, Basel)
Teresa Gierzyńska (Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw)
HR Giger (Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva)
Teresa Gierzyńska (Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw)
Jared Ginsburg (blank projects, Cape Town)
Emanuel Gollob (BC Gallery, Basel)
Birke Gorm (Croy Nielsen, Vienna)
Joseph Grigely (Aguirre, Mexico City)
Matthias Groebel (Schiefe Zähne, Berlin)
Sara Grütter (Kasko, Basel)
Marie Gyger (Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva)
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Mark Handforth (Franco Noero, Turin)
Eric Hattan (Nicolas Krupp, Basel)
Aziz Hazara (Experimenter, Kolkata)
Stefanie Heinze (LC Queisser, Tbilisi)
Lena Henke (Layr, Vienna)
Paula Henrike Herrmann (Sentiment, Zurich)
Lynn Hershman Leeson (Bridget Donahue, New York)
Gregor Hildebrandt (Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv/ Zurich)
Karl Horst Hoedicke (Galerie Mueller, Basel)
Simone Hollinger (Filiale, Basel)
Margaret Honda (Galerie Molitor, Berlin)
Golnaz Hosseini (Amore, Basel)
Marguerite Humeau (Clearing, Brussels / New York)
Sohrab Hura (Experimenter, Kolkata)
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Jacent (Tonus, Paris)
Banny Jayanata (ROH, Jakarta)
Nadya Jiwa (ROH, Jakarta)
Kim Jung-man (Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger | KBH.G, Basel)
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Judith Kakon (FOR, Basel)
Jan Kaláb (BC Gallery, Basel)
Nino Kapanadze (LC Queisser, Tbilisi)
Henrik Olai Kaarstein (Etablissement d’en face, Brussels)
Hoda Kashiha (Dastan, Tehran)
Chris Kauffmann (Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva)
Itsuki Kaito (Blue Velvet Project, Zurich)
Emil Michael Klein (Galleria Federico Vavassori, Milan)
Dominique Knowles (Layr, Vienna)
Kitty Kraus (Galerie Neu, Berlin)
Emil Hvelplund Kristiansen (Palazzina, Basel)
Donna Kukama (blank projects, Cape Town)
Luka Kurashvili (Not For Sale, Basel)
Mike Kushar (François Ghebaly, Los Angeles)
Teruko Kushi (Margot Samel, New York)
Nika Kutateladze (Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi)
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Matthew Langan-Peck (Edouard Montassut, Paris)
Gowoon Lee (Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York)
Mire Lee (Antenna Space, Shanghai)
Max Leiss (Filiale, Basel)
Kris Lemsalu (Margot Samel, New York)
Miriam Laura Leonardi (Jenny’s, New York)
Vicente Lesse (Palazzina, Basel)
Hilary Lloyd (Sadie Coles HQ, London)
Sam Lipp (Bonny Poon / Conditions, Toronto)
Lorenza Longhi (Fanta-MLN, Milan)
Bernhard Luginbühl (Esther Grether Family Collection, Basel)
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Emanuele Marcuccio (Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels/ Zurich)
Rudolf Maeglin (Galerie Mueller, Basel)
Luna Mahoux (Cherish, Geneva)
Mandela Reuter (Croy Nielsen, Vienna)
Mandela Reuter (Francesca Minini, Milan)
Marie Matusz (Clima, Milan)
Effe Minelli (zaza’, Milan)
Daniele Milvio (ILENIA, London)
Kaspar Müller (Galleria Federico Vavassori, Milan)
Claudia & Julia Müller (Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg)
Claudia & Julia Müller (Zumstein and Cie., Basel)
Niku Alex Muçaj (Galeria e Bregdetit, Radhime)
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Paulo Nazareth (Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo/ Brussels)
Alexandra Navratil (Dan Gunn, London)
Ingo Niermann (Palazzina, Basel)
Alexandra Noel (Crèvecœur, Paris)
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Alek O. (Martina Simeti, Milan)
Juan Antonio Olivares (Aguirre, Mexico City)
Edit Oderbolz (Mayday, Basel)
OKOMdsu (gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich)
On Foot (Palazzina, Basel)
Lydia Ourahmane (Cordova, Barcelona)
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Cornelia Parker (Wilde, Basel)
A.R. Penck (Galerie Knoell, Basel)
Lee Scratch Perry (Harlesden High Street/ suns.works, London/ Zurich)
Walter Pfeiffer (Sultana, Paris)
Marina Pinsky (Clearing, Brussels/ New York)
Price (Blue Velvet Project, Zurich)
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Franziska Reinbote (Not For Sale, Basel)
Pipilotti Rist (Hauser & Wirth)
Cédric Rivrain (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris)
Walter Robinson (Air de Paris, Paris)
Walter Robinson (Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva)
Victor Ruiz Colomer (Cordova, Barcelona)
Kilian Rüthemann (Galerie Fabian Lang, Zurich)
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Nicolás Sarmiento (Amore, Basel)
Dean Sameshima (O-Town House, Los Angeles)
Paula Santome (Palazzina, Basel)
Anna Schachinger (Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna)
Mira Schor (Marcelle Alix, Paris)
Hagar Schmidhalter (PM8/Francisco Salas, Vigo)
Maya Schweizer (Kunsttage Basel, Basel)
Arthur Simms (Martos Gallery, New York)
Yann Slattery (Amore, Basel)
Sound Artworks As Nfts (Joyfully Waiting)
Daniel Spoerri (Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel)
Cally Spooner (Zero, Milan)
Kara Springer (Patel Brown, Toronto)
Adam Stamp (O-Town House, Los Angeles)
Olivia Sterling (Meyer Riegger, Berlin/ Karlsruhe)
Nathaniel Stern (off.pink studio, Basel)
Sasha Stiles (off.pink studio, Basel)
Altoon Sultan (Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles)
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Hisachika Takahashi (Misako & Rosen, Tokyo)
Tenant of Culture (Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam)
Aqui Thami (Sister Press, Bombay)
Philipp Timischl (High Art, Paris)
Jean Tinguely (Esther Grether Family Collection, Basel)
Jean Tinguely (Galerie Mueller, Basel)
Thanasis Totsikas (Rodeo, London/ Athens)
Flavia Trachsler (FOMO Art Space, Zurich)
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Michelle Uckotter (King’s Leap, New York)
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Zoe Vai (Zumstein and Cie., Basel)
Sophie Varin (Sultana, Paris)
Danh Vo (Massimo de Carlo)
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Matt Welch (Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main)
Hannah Weinberger (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris)
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Leto Ybera (Cordova, Barcelona)
Food & Drinks
Fine Dining: Kollektiv Eulenspiegel
– Ale & Bread
– Bruno Lorenzo – gelato lab
– Confiserie Bachmann
– Licorne-Stadtbrennerei
– Bhf St.Johann Thai Restaurant
– Squadra Violi
– Tacos by 801
Team
Hugo Bausch Belbachir, Geraldine Belmont, Julia Cellarius, Robbie Fitzpatrick, Katya Hudson, Flynn Jost, Philip Ortelli, Fiona Rahn, Tuula Rasmussen, Gloria Viktoria Regotz, Christine Rösch, Yael Salomonowitz, Marlon Schaffner, Paelden Tamnyen, Claire Vannaxay, Maya Vidgrayn, Thomas Villemin, Hannah Weinberger.
Partners
Docent
This year the Basel Social Club is collaborating with Docent, which will be taken over by Basel Social Club, creating a dynamic OVR collaboration that drives both online and offline traffic. Docent is an AI-powered online platform for discovering, accessing and collecting contemporary artworks.
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Funders & Sponsorship
