Basel Social Club 2026
June 14 – 20, 2026
We are thrilled to be participating in Basel Social Club 2026!
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For Basel Social Club, Gunia Nowik Gallery presents a dialogue between Public Transport Project (Gloria Viktoria Regotz, Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas, Philip Ortelli) and Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, unfolding within the framework of The Office. Working across sculpture, installation, and performance, both positions engage industrial materials and systems of production to reconsider the office not as a site of efficiency, but as a space where control, care, and resistance intersect.
Public Transport Project continues its inquiry into infrastructures of movement and regulation through sculptural works and performance. Drawing on materials and formats associated with mobility and administration, the collective translates systems of standardization into spatial and bodily experience. Repetitive gestures, calibrated actions, and subtle disruptions expose how labor continues to shape the body beyond the workplace—while moments of slippage and hesitation open brief spaces of agency.
Dunkelberg presents works extending her ongoing engagement with feminist thought, including Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. Through industrial processes such as welding and powder coating, she translates motifs of intimacy, dependency, and vulnerability into precise, durable forms. Her installation reclaims the office as a contested space, foregrounding the gendered conditions of labor, care, and autonomy, and exposing how systems of productivity are sustained through often invisible, feminized forms of work.
Together, the works activate The Office as a site where systems of productivity are slowed, displaced, and made tangible. Across both practices, materials associated with efficiency and control are reoriented toward embodied experience, revealing the frictions and subtle resistances that emerge within—and against—the structures that organize contemporary life.
Basel Social Club returns for its fifth edition from June 14 – 20, 2026, transforming a vacant multi-story office building in central Basel into a temporary social stage during Art Basel week. Titled Office, this year’s edition reimagines the workplace as a site of reflection rather than production, responding to shifting realities shaped by digitalization, remote work, and AI.
Unfolding across stacked floors, the building’s vertical structure becomes part of the curatorial framework, echoing notions of the “underground” as both cultural resistance and a metaphor for hidden tensions within late capitalism. The space remains continuously activated throughout the week, with a night program and an “Out of Office” zone offering moments of pause. Further details will be announced in June 2026.