Harald Erath
at Basel Social Club
Address: Entrances at Erdbeergraben 1 and Viaduktstrasse 33, 4051 Basel
On view: 14 June – 20 June 2026
Room -1.C.1
Sunday, June 14: doors open at 2pm
Monday, June 15 – Saturday, June 20: 4pm - 3am
Through surrealist abstraction, Harald Erath explores the Office theme of the 2026 edition of the Basel Social Club, by exposing the hidden fuel of the corporate machine.
Erath's Equinox series borrows its name from the moment when day and night are of equal length, much like the temporal disorientation induced by cocaine, where night and day become interchangeable. The paintings approach cocaine as a kind of modern religion, tracing its ritualistic seductions, communal highs, and the parallel universe that addiction builds in place of reality.
Harald Erath, Unrefined Equinox I, 2025, oil on canvas, 40 × 30 cm
Harald Erath, Unrefined Equinox II, 2025, oil on canvas, 20 × 15 cm
Harald Erath, Unrefined Equinox IV, 2025, oil on canvas, 40 × 30 cm
Harald Erath, Concealed Equinox II, 2025 oil on wood, 30 × 20 cm
Harald Erath, Equinox Utopia IV, 2025, oil on wood, 25 × 30 cm
Harald Erath, Equinox IV, 2024, tempera & oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm
Harald Erath, Equinox Utopia I, 2025, oil on wood, 15 × 20 cm
Harald Erath, Vulnerable Equinox I, 2025, tempera & oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm
Harald Erath, Equinox Utopia II, 2025, oil on wood, 15 × 20 cm
Harald Erath, Equinox Utopia III, 2025, oil on wood, 15 × 20 cm
Harald Erath, Concealed Equinox III, 2025, oil on wood, 30 × 20 cm
Harald Erath, Vulnerable Equinox VI, 2025, tempera & oil on canvas, 24 × 18 cm
Harald Erath, Vulnerable Equinox III, 2025, tempera & oil on canvas, 30 × 24 cm
Harald Erath, Concealed Equinox I, 2025, oil on wood, 30 × 20 cm
Harald Erath, Equinox I, 2024, tempera & oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm
Harald Erath, Vulnerable Equinox II, 2025, tempera & oil on canvas, 30 × 24 cm
Harald Erath, Vulnerable Equinox IV, 2025, tempera & oil on canvas, 24 × 18 cm