Room Service On the Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the Hotel

Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

Mitte | Berlin | Germany

Mar 22, 2014 - Jun 22, 2014

The Federal State Exhibtion Baden-Württemberg is dealing with the myths that are entwined with the hotel as a semi-public space. Reflecting motifs of desire, it serves as a backdrop for the most intimate occurrences as well as matters of state. Over the past two hundred years the topos of the hotel has increasingly become a subject of artistic interest. Artists have not only examined the hotel as a motif but have appropriated its rooms, decorating and inhabiting them. With the Federal State Exhibition Baden-Württemberg the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden traces these multi-faceted relationships over time. The exhibition also examines problematic social aspects of this phenomenon. To capture the mythic dimensions of the hotel, the exhibition Room Service – On the Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the Hotel at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden is also accompanied by an exhibition route that leads through the city’s prominent hotels. Numerous artists are presenting works in hotel rooms, lobbies, and parking garages and have in some cases developed these projects specifically for the exhibition.

Participating Artists: Michael Ancher, Christian Andersson, Diane Arbus, Max Beckmann, Guy Ben-Ner, Oscar Björck, Jenny Brillhart, Sophie Calle, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Auguste Chabaud, John Constable, Honoré Daumier, Thomas Demand, Simone Demandt, DIS, William Eggleston, Tracey Emin, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fischli / Weiss, Francis Frith, George Grosz, Andreas Gursky, Eberhard Havekost, Georg Hering, Candida Höfer, Hanns Hubmann, Irène Hug, DAS INSTITUT, Christian Jankowski, Sven Johne, On Kawara, K-Hole, Byung Chul Kim, Lee Kit, Martin Kippenberger, Otto Albert Koch, Peder Severin Krøyer, Christian Krohg, Pierre Leguillon, Ligna, Armin Linke und Elina Axioti, Sarah Lucas, Tobias Madison, Johan Marinus Mari ten Kate, Adolph Menzel, Hans Meyboden, Chantal Michel, Olaf Nicolai, Gabriela Oberkofler, Gabriel Orozco, Paul Riess, Reiner Ruthenbeck, August Sander, Markus Schinwald, Laurits Schmidt-Nielsen, Valdemar Schønheyder Møller, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Schütte, Paul Signac, Roman Signer, Florian Slotawa, Chaïm Soutine, Daniel Spoerri, George Stephenson, William Henry Fox Talbot, Guy Tillim, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Trockel, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Laurits Tuxen, Amalia Ulman, Ian Wallace, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Carl Windels, Ann Liv Young, Naneci Yurdagül, Xu Zhen.