Basel Social Club

For this year’s edition of Basel Social Club: The Office, we present a dialogue between the works of Eva Papamargariti (b. 1987, Greece) and Saša Tkačenko (b. 1979, Serbia). Bringing together recent and selected works, the presentation extends across multiple rooms: works by Saša Tkačenko are installed at floor 1.A.8 and the -1.ABC.1 hallway, while works by Eva Papamargariti are on view in Room -1.C.16.

On view: 14–20 June, 2026
Location: Erdbeergraben 1, Viaduktstrasse 35, Basel, Switzerland

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Eva Papamargariti is an artist based between Athens and London. She uses a variety of mediums such as moving image, printed material and sculptural installations that explore the relationships of cognitive and affective entanglement within the multiple realities that we live in, as well as the dynamic intra – connection and intra – action of events that occur in various systems.Through video, text, sound, motion capture, AR, CG animations, 3d scans, character creation softwares, sculptures and textiles she explores notions of becoming, liminality, the dialectics of fluidity, techno-romance, transformation, and characteristics of symbiosis between human and non-human agents and the intricate traces and kinships that this entanglement produces.

Furthermore, her practice revolves around processes that are established through our online presence, such as the construction and shifting of our identities, avatars, vernacular language/imagery and world building. She has exhibited through solo shows, group shows and screenings in institutions, museums and festivals such as the New Museum (New York), Whitney Museum (New York), Serpentine Galleries (London), MAAT Museum (Lisbon), EMST (Athens), Museum of Moving Image (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), GAMeC Museum (Bergamo), Pioneer Works (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art Montreal, The Bass (Miami), Athens Biennale (Athens), Mediterranean Biennale (San Marino), Thessaloniki Biennale (Thessaloniki), MUTEK, Transmediale Festival (Berlin), MIRA Festival (Madrid), New Now Festival (Zollverein), Ars Electronica (Linz), Liste Art Fair (Basel), Kunstraum Niederostereich (Vienna). She has been invited as a resident artist at LUMA Foundation in Arles, France (September-December 2023) and at the New Now residency at Zollverein, Germany (February-May 2023). She is currently a resident artist at Onassis Foundation (2024-2025).

Her work is featured in public and private collections such as the Dakis Joannou Collection (Deste Foundation), Onassis Foundation, PCAI Collection, MOMuS collection and more.

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Saša Tkačenko is a visual artist currently living and working in Zagreb. His practice spans various domains of conceptual art, where he subtly employs diverse media and materials to engage with space, provoking its transformation and destabilization. Through his work, Tkačenko constructs narratives that directly address themes of nostalgia and melancholy, questioning both the personal position and the role of the individual within contemporary society. He frequently references motifs from popular culture and modern life, combining familiar imagery and phenomena to encourage a deeper reflection on personal and collective experience.

Since 2008, he has been actively exhibiting, including exhibitions in institutions such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), mumok — Museum Moderner Kunst (Vienna), Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (Lyon), MNAC — National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest), Museum im Bellpark (Kriens), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb), Museum of Contemporary Art (Podgorica), Times Museum (Guangdong) and HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (Graz), Kunstsammlungen Museen, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus (Augsburg), Pera Museum (Istanbul), Art Encounters Biennial (Timișoara), Zachęta Project Room (Warsaw), ACP – Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney).

His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark in Graz, the Yettel Collection of Contemporary Art, and the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection.