Room (size: 21m²) with Twin (two beds of 100 x 200 cm width each – we are happy to fix these together) with shower/bath. Artistic rooms in keeping with the Teufelhof art concept – furnished to the Teufelhof standard. The rooms are only accessible via stairs (due to the building's listed status).

About the room

For his art room at Hotel Teufelhof, Bruno Zhu has created a kind of “spectral” room. All room surfaces such as walls, ceiling, but also doors and door frames were painted according to a specially compiled colour chart – with one colour for each direction. So, for example, everything that is the ceiling is in pink, and everything that faces east is in blue. Even small details such as the inner edges of cupboards and doors were taken into account. This results in entirely new colour combinations depending on the viewpoint, some complementing and some contrasting. It creates a sense of space as though the room were weightless.

The colour combination chosen by Bruno Zhu is inspired by the colours of one of the most famous paintings, which can be seen at Kunstmuseum Basel: Arnold Böcklin's „Life Island“ from 1888. What is striking is how contemporary the tones of the almost 140-year-old painting are. And this stands for a time in which restraint, moderation and humility were preached. Böcklin's painting as well as Bruno's artwork are anything but that: they burst with vitality and joie de vivre, are cheerful and playful.

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Bruno Zhu (*1991, (Porto, P, lives and works in Amsterdam, NL) is an internationally active conceptual artist who is interested in the history of colours, materials and forms in objects and spaces. In doing so, he explores their significance as expressions of culture, social class, identity, but also of personal longings, love or family. Design and fashion often play an important role here – as an expression of how a social group, society or an era expresses itself through its colours, furniture or materials.

Exhibitions and projects by Bruno Zhu have been shown at, among others: M HKA, Antwerpen B / Kunsthalle Zürich CH / Chisenhale Gallery, London GB / Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig D / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL / Veronica, Seattle, USA / Emanuela Campoli, Paris F / What Pipeline, Detroit USA / Gió Marconi, Milano I / Cordova, Barcelona E / Sismógrafo, Porto P / Fragile, Berlin D / Para Site, Hong Kong.

Further information at http://www.brunozhu.com/