DPI Faculty Spotlight: Sean Fader featured in Art Basel Social Club

Monday, Jun 15, 2026

Professor Sean Fader featured in Art Basel Social Club in Basel, Switzerland!

June 14 - 20, 2026

Basel Social Club

Erdbeergraben 1, 4051 Basel

Basel Social Club returns for its fifth edition, transforming a vacant multi-story office building designed by Diener & Diener, just minutes from Basel SBB train station, into a temporary social stage for art.

This year’s edition reconsiders the workplace not as a site of production, but of critical reflection. Once a symbol of efficiency and growth, the office today reflects shifting realities shaped by digitalization, remote work, and artificial intelligence. Basel Social Club engages this condition through exhibitions, performances, music, gastronomy, and informal encounters that explore questions of labor, time, productivity, and rest.

Unfolding vertically across the building’s stacked floors, the architecture becomes part of the curatorial framework. Spatial layers and circulation routes echo contemporary notions of the “underground” — as both a site of cultural resistance and a metaphor for the hidden structures and tensions of late capitalism.

More Info HERE.