Figurines & Statuettes at Basel Social Club / Basel

Artist(s): Lorin Brockhaus, Eliz-abeth Englander, Leonard Fendler-Moser, Gina Fischli, Manuel Graf, Bella Henri, Oscar Kargruber, Tarik Kentouche, Günther Möbius, Eva Noeske, Phung-Tien Phan, Clara Schmidt, Peter Wächtler.
Curator: Cyril Tyrone Hübscher and Theodor Nymark
Art space: HOBO International
Address: Basel Social Club
Duration: 14/06/2026 - 20/06/2026
Credits: Hagen Eberle

For this year’s Basel Social Club, HOBO International & Salon 75 – curated by Cyril Tyrone Hübscher and Theodor Nymark – brings together thirteen artists across generations, practices, and premises, that all consider the figurine as a form to inspect. The figurine and the statuette occupy a strong and layered position in art history and contemporary culture: workers’ monuments, office art in the vein of Jeff Koons, Renoir’s ballet dancers, the Oscar statuette, Labubus, busts, and the mannequin (from the Flemish for “little man”). Questions of figuration, craftsmanship, commerce, identity, and power are all becoming actors partici-pating in this little theater unfolding on the big stage. Like employees and col-leagues, they occupy a single black oval podium, which borrows its form from the conference tables found in office boardrooms and other places of power. 

 

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