Room (size: 19m²) with Twin (two beds of 100 x 200 cm width each – we are happy to fix these in place) with shower/bath. Artistic rooms based on the Teufelhof art concept – furnished in Teufelhof standard. The rooms are only accessible via a staircase (listed building protection).

About the room

Based on a hand drawing, Claudia & Julia Müller (*1964; *1965) stage familiar or enigmatic situations in Art Room 5 with a large-format wallpaper and merge figurative representation with ornaments and fragments, abstraction and dissection. Drawing from their extensive image archive, they examine the interplay between affection and distance, intimacy and unfamiliarity, in short: the whole contradictory spectrum of human existence. Together with a painted lamp, the art room addresses moments of transition, forms of living together and situations of fragility and reorientation.

Their method of reactivating images through manual repetition is a kind of “deceleration” of the gaze in the present, a time that is increasingly flooded by photographic images. Driven by our desire to look, the flood of everyday images has acquired an unprecedented omnipresence and relevance. Paradoxically, this visual overload also obscures our ability to see and understand. So selecting a particular image and allowing it to completely absorb you, analysing it by copying something digital, ephemeral, immaterial and translating it into a more lasting form as a wall drawing, enables the artists as well as the guests in the hotel room to acquire a different way of seeing, of looking at images.

You can book directly here with a 10% discount

or book by phone on +41 61 261 10 10 or by email: info@teufelhof.com

Claudia Müller (*1964) and Julia Müller (*1965) have been working together since 1991. In 1993 the duo received the Kiefer Hablützel scholarship, and in 1994 the Manor-Kunstpreis Basel. In 1999/2000 the artists were P.S.1 scholarship holders in New York, and in 2010 they were awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim.
Exhibitions were shown at: Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel CH / Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg D / Städtische Galerie Offenburg, Oberrheinischer Kunstpreis D / Kunsthaus Baselland / Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris F / Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin D/ Maccarone, New York  USA/ Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf CH / Meyer Riegger Karlsruhe D / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst  CH / Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau CH / Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart, Basel CH.

Further information at www.cjmueller.ch