Space, Team & Partners
The Franck Areal project in Basel transforms a former industrial site into a vibrant urban district featuring culture, sustainability, and community. In that setting OMG, Franck! became an experiment: creating a temporary utopia over six days where people gathered, reflected, discovered, and celebrated together.
2025
Photo: Samuel BramleyWith club culture under pressure worldwide, that week felt like a small utopia: shared, open, community-built real.
Photo: Samuel BramleyThe real magic was the downtime: chance meetings, long conversations, the quiet reset between sets. A space that held you, alongside the programme.
Photo: Selina Seibel
Photo: Samuel Bramley
Team Partners
Team 2025
Community / "you know who you are"
The unnamed contributors who made it possible — the real infrastructure of the week.
Danielle Bürgin (head of music & culture at Radio X)
Co-initiator/curator/connector, writing reflections and thanks — community glue in motion.
Gabriel Eckenstein
Co-initiator and co-festival lead, turned the idea into a system: partnerships, pace, and the big picture.
Ivan Schneebeli (Midnight Rush)
Production lead and on-the-ground force, keeping the flow moving where the schedule meets reality.
Jeroen van Vulpen (Goldameisen)
Production lead and problem-solvers, making the impossible feel like the plan.
John Bürgin (founder of No Chef Studios)
Food concept lead, treating hospitality like programming — generous, deliberate, and fully part of the culture.
Kat Fischer (S.P.A., Brut Nature, Schweizer Weintage)
A central figure in Basel's wine culture, bridging the gap between sustainable production and modern urban consumption.
Luzius Bauer & Clemens Fiechter (Radio X)
Technical radio leads, keeping broadcast and on-site signal locked in all week.
Niklaus Oppliger
Scenography, lighting, and haze shaped the full vibe, inside and out — atmosphere as infrastructure.
No Chef Studios
Built and hosted the kitchen concept, curating food like a DJ timetable inside the festival narrative.
Ozelot Studios
Visual identity layer across posts and web, carrying the platform's look and feel.
Pilar Quinteros
Video-Space lead, shaping the moving-image layer as an environment, not a screen.
Rinny Bieberstein
Host of No Chef Studios treating guests like friends and family.
Romain Tièche (777studio.ch)
Visual storyteller and aftermovie eye, catching the pulse of the week — faces, energy, and the in-between that becomes collective memory.
Samuel Bramley
Photographer across recaps and atmosphere posts, holding the week as visual memory.
Selina Seibel
Photographer capturing space and people, inviting tags and collective memory-building.
Stefan Degen (Radio X)
Host + awareness, making space feel easy and looked after.
Timo Bindler
Listening Space scenography, building a room for focus: sound, texture, and time slowed down.
Partners 2025
0xcollection / Frames of Reference
Exhibition context (17–22 June 2025): an atmosphere to walk into.
Burgunder
Outfitted the team in low-key, functional fits — understated, sharp, and built for long days on concrete. Less "uniform," more quiet confidence: the kind of clothing that moves with the work and still looks right in the frame.
Franck Areal / Wegwarte
The site itself and co-author, enabling a new cultural space through place and presence.
HGK Basel + Institute Art Gender Nature + Radio X Open Call
Students, graduates, and affiliated artists invited to co-shape the festival — fresh work plugged directly into the programme.
Leihlager
Operating as a community-driven hub in the Franck Areal, Leihlager provided all kinds of practical infrastructure for the festival. Their concept: borrowing things instead of buying.
n0va.silo
Satellite event hub of OMG, Franck! showing works at the intersection of design, media, and digital art.
No Chef Studios
Built and hosted the kitchen concept, curating food like a DJ timetable inside the festival narrative.
OKAPI Equipment
Technical gear partner, backing the build with the tools that keep things running.
OMG, Franck! (core platform)
The host identity: a one-week takeover during Basel Art Week, built for sub- & club culture and collisions.
Pflanzebroggi
Plant partner adding the soft layer: greenery that broke up the industrial lines and made the whole space feel alive.
Point de Vue
Provided the media art equipment.
Radio X Basel
Cultural backbone and amplification: daily broadcasts and live sets, turning the programme into a signal beyond the site.
Send Return Sound
Sound system partner across the week, pushing dub roots with a contemporary twist.
Tanzhaus Basel
Core partner of OMG, Franck! and venue for performances.
Wohnzimmer Basel
Furniture partner bringing comfort into the raw: sofas, tables, and pieces that turned concrete into a place to actually hang out.