Basel Social Club 2025



BaselSocialClub_Bank_June 15 - 21 2025
Sunday, June 15th – Saturday, June 21st
2pm – Midnight
The main entrance is at: Rittergasse 25, 4051 Basel
David Berweger, Vincent Kriste, Laura Mietrup
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For its 4th edition, Basel Social Club returns to the historic heart of the city, a short 10-min walk from Art Basel and Basel SBB, inhabiting a townhouse and former private bank on one of the oldest streets in historic Grossbasel. With over 70 rooms spanning nearly 3,000 square meters, Basel Social Club transforms this historic building into a vibrant tableau vivant, each room transformed into a themed experience;an all-encompassing exhibition of artworks by a diverse list of local and international artists with a curatorial selection that conceptually responds to the historic location. As in past years, Basel Social Club 2025 will be accompanied by interactive social engagements, dynamic music and performative interventions, a film program, multiple bars, and exclusive gastronomic discoveries.

Entrée II, Chalk ground, Plaster Ø 70 cm T: 12 cm

Entrée II, Chalk ground, Plaster Ø 70 cm T: 12 cm



Entrée II, Chalk ground, Plaster Ø 70 cm T: 12 cm

Entrée II, Chalk ground, Plaster Ø 70 cm T: 12 cm


Laura Mietrup’s artistic practice is multi-faceted; she feels at home in many media, but her focus is placed on a three-dimensional and architecture-related esthetic. Even in her drawing and painting practices, she uses a predominantly sculptural vocabulary. She moves freely between furniture and sculpture and questions issues of signification, functionality and readability. Volumes, materials, borders and architectural hierarchies are permanently renegotiated in her practice and her work brakes through the boundaries of performance, installation and display, always involving the viewer in the process.
Isabel Balzer

Stamina, 2025, Flesh Huge Tattooable Synthetic Canvas, 253 × 400 cm

Stamina, 2025, Flesh Huge Tattooable Synthetic Canvas, 253 × 400 cm


Stamina, 2025, Flesh Huge Tattooable Synthetic Canvas, 253 × 400 cm

Stamina, 2025, Flesh Huge Tattooable Synthetic Canvas, 253 × 400 cm

In the work Stamina, 2025, a formally unambiguous gesture is performed: a mat is hung over an existing pipe. However, the interest is not only in the material quality of the plastic mat, but also in its productness, its product character and the associated implications. It is the largest synthetic practice skin from the range of the US Tattoo Supply manufacturer "A Pound of Flesh". The body is addressed as a surrogate, as well as the training and simulation of its marking, its ornamentation. The purple wall contrasts the Fitzpatrick Skin Tone 2 skin tone (the only skin tone available in this dimension). In the background, the effect and connotation of the violet color play. From a scientific point of view, it is simply a colour stimulus at the short-wave end of visible light, but in the Christian context colour is associated with repentance, transition and transformation. In the Catholic tradition, images and crosses are veiled in purple during Lent.

Kasparov vs Deep Blue, 2017/18, Acrylic on cotton, Dimensions variable

Kasparov vs Deep Blue, 2017/18, Acrylic on cotton, Dimensions variable

Deep Blue, Acrylic on cotton, 170 x 78 cm

Text, Acrylic on paper, 42 x 30 cm

Kasparov vs Deep Blue, 2017/18, Acrylic on cotton, Dimensions variable

Kasparov vs Deep Blue, 2017/18, Acrylic on cotton, Dimensions variable

Deep Blue, Acrylic on cotton, 170 x 78 cm

Text, Acrylic on paper, 42 x 30 cm
In the work Stamina, 2025, a formally unambiguous gesture is performed: a mat is hung over an existing pipe. However, the interest is not only in the material quality of the plastic mat, but also in its productness, its character and the associated implications. It is the largest synthetic practice skin from the range of the US Tattoo Supply manufacturer "A Pound of Flesh". The body is addressed as a surrogate, as well as the training and simulation of its marking, its ornamentation. The purple wall contrasts the Fitzpatrick Skin Tone 2 (the only skin tone available in this dimension). In the background, the effect and connotation of the violet color play. From a scientific point of view, it is simply a colour stimulus at the short-wave end of visible light, but in the Christian contextcolour is associated with repentance, transition and transformation. In the Catholic tradition, effigies and crosses are veiled in purple during Lent.