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)
Ester Alemayehu Hatle (Palazzina, Basel)
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (Galerie Molitor, Berlin)
Mohamed Almusibli (Joyfully Waiting)
Elena Alonso (Galerie Fabian Lang, Zurich)
Matthew Antezzo (Nicolas Krupp, Basel)
Sónia Almeida (Simone Subal Gallery, New York)
Martha Araújo (Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin)
Fabienne Audéoud (Tonus, Paris)
Eva Aeppli (Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel)
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi (Amore, Basel)
B
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)
Tina Braegger (Weiss Falk, Basel/ Zurich)
Olaf Breuning (von Bartha, Basel)
C
Timothée Calame (Weiss Falk, Basel/ Zurich)
Victoria Colmegna (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris)
Victor Ruiz Colomer (Cordova, Barcelona)
Matt Copson (Clearing, Brussels / New York; High Art, Paris)
Adam Cruces (Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich)
Catharine Czudej (Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York)
D
Yoko Daihara (Take Ninagawa, Tokyo)
F. Tibiezas Dager (Amore, Basel)
Franziska Reinbote (notfor$ale, 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)
Marius Engh (Kunsthaus Centre d’art Pasquart, Biel)
Klodin Erb (Istituto Svizzero, Rome)
Manuela Morales Délano (Amore, Basel)
F
Azize Ferizi (Cherish, Geneva)
Mounir Fatmi (Wilde, Basel)
Hadi Falapishi (Champ Lacombe, Biarritz)
Fabienne Audéoud (Tonus, Paris)
Sylvie Fleury (Karma International, Zurich)
Rochelle Feinstein (STUDIOLI, Rome)
Gina Fischli (Karma International, Zurich)
Matt Welch (Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main)
G
Audrey Gair (King’s Leap, New York)
Vidya Gastaldon (Joyfully Waiting; Wilde, Basel)
Karl Gerstner (Galerie Knoell, Basel)
Jared Ginsburg (blank projects, Cape Town)
Teresa Gierzynska (Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw)
Jeanne Graff (Joyfully Waiting)
Joseph Grigely (Aguirre, Mexico City)
Sara Grütter (Kasko, Basel)
Birke Gorm (Croy Nielsen, Vienna)
Golnaz Hosseini (Amore, Basel)
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Walter Hesse (Not on list, ignoring)
Matthew Langan-Peck (Edouard Montassut, Paris)
Mark Handforth (Franco Noero, Turin)
Paula Henrike Herrmann (Sentiment, Zurich)
Lena Henke (Layr, Vienna)
Henrik Olai Kaarstein (Etablissement d’en face, Brussels)
Hagar Schmidhalter (PM8/Francisco Salas, Vigo)
Gregor Hildebrandt (Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv/ Zurich)
Emil Hvelplund Kristiansen (Palazzina, Basel)
Martha Araújo (Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin)
Margaret Honda (Galerie Molitor, Berlin)
Hilary Lloyd (Sadie Coles HQ, London)
Hoda Kashiha (Dastan, Teheran)
HR Giger (Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva)
I
Ingo Niermann (Palazzina, Basel)
Itsuki KAITO (Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich)
J
Jacent (Tonus, Paris)
Nadya Jiwa (ROH, Jakarta)
K
Nino Kapanadze (LC Queisser, Tbilisi)
Judith Kakon (FOR, Basel)
Kim Jung-man (Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger | KBH.G, Basel)
Kitty Kraus (Galerie Neu, Berlin)
Mike Kushar (François Ghebaly, Los Angeles)
Nika Kutateladze (Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi)
Luca Kurashvili (notfor$ale, Basel)
Teruko Kushi (Margot Samel, New York)
L
Sam Lipp (Bonny Poon / Conditions, Toronto)
Kris Lemsalu (Margot Samel, New York)
Max Leiss (Filiale, Basel)
Liam Mcgill (Joyfully Waiting)
Leto Ybera (Cordova, Barcelona)
Lee Scratch Perry (Harlesden High Street / suns.works, London / Zurich)
Lorenza Longhi (Fanta-MLN, Milan)
Lydia Ourahmane (Cordova, Barcelona)
Lynn Hershman Leeson (Bridget Donahue, New York)
M
Marie Matusz (Clima, Milan)
Maya Schweizer (Kunsttage Basel, Basel)
Marguerite Humeau (Clearing, Brussels / New York)
Matt Welch (Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt am Main)
Matthew Langan-Peck (Edouard Montassut, Paris)
Margot Samel (Kris Lemsalu, Teruko Kushi)
Matthew Antezzo (Nicolas Krupp, Basel)
Max Leiss (Filiale, Basel)
Marina Pinsky (Clearing, Brussels / New York)
Mohamed Almusibli (Joyfully Waiting)
Mounir Fatmi (Wilde, Basel)
N
Alexandra Navratil (Dan Gunn, London)
Paolo Nazareth (Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo/ Brussels)
Nathaniel Stern (off.pink studio, Basel)
O
Henrik Olai Kaarstein (Etablissement d’en face, Brussels)
Olivia Sterling (Meyer Riegger, Berlin/ Karlsruhe/ Basel)
Olaf Breuning (von Bartha, Basel)
OKOMdsu (gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich)
On Foot (Palazzina, Basel)
Osama Alrayyan (Galleria Federico Vavassori, Milan)
P
Cornelia Parker (Wilde, Basel)
Walter Pfeiffer (Sultana, Paris)
Arthur Simms (Martos Gallery, New York)
Paula Santomé (Palazzina, Basel)
R
Mandala Reuter (Croy Nielsen, Vienna; Francesca Minini, Milan)
Nicolas Sarmiento (Amore, Basel)
Margaret Humeau (Clearing, Brussels / New York)
Rudolf Maeglin (Galerie Mueller, Basel)
Matthew Langan-Peck (Edouard Montassut, Paris)
Marius Engh (Kunsthaus Centre d’art Pasquart, Biel)
S
Mia Sanchez (Joyfully Waiting)
Anna Schachinger (Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna)
Sara Grütter (Kasko, Basel)
Nora Schultz (Joyfully Waiting)
Dean Sameshima (O-Town House, Los Angeles)
Benjamin Echeverria (Francis Irv, New York)
Cally Spooner (Zero, Milan)
Aziz Hazara (Experimenter, Kolkata)
Sasha Stiles (off.pink studio, Basel)
Simone Hollinger (Filiale, Basel)
Sophie Varin (Sultana, Paris)
Stefan Burger (Mayday, Basel)
Stefanie Heinze (LC Queisser, Tbilisi)
T
Hisachika Takahashi (Misako & Rosen, Tokyo)
Philipp Timischl (High Art, Paris)
Thanasis Totsikas (Rodeo, London/ Athens)
U
Michelle Uckotter (King’s Leap, New York)
V
Vanessa Safavi (Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich)
Victoria Colmegna (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris)
Victor Ruiz Colomer (Cordova, Barcelona)
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Walter Robinson (Air de Paris, Paris; Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva)
Walter Pfeiffer (Sultana, Paris)
Hannah Weinberger (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris; Joyfully Waiting)
Mary Weatherford (Gagosian)
Wee Colors (Cordova, Barcelona)
Y
Yann Slattery (Amore, Basel)
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
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
