Room (size: 24m²) with twin (two beds, each 100 x 200 cm wide – we are happy to make these fixed) with shower/bath. Artistic rooms based on the Teufelhof art concept – furnished to Teufelhof standard. The rooms are only accessible via stairs (due to the building’s listed status).

About the room

Renée Levi understands the entire room as a canvas for her art room. For the artist, this includes the existing architectural elements such as the floor, walls, beams or furniture. But it also includes less tangible aspects such as perspectives and lines of shadow from light and movement, as well as the view outside. Levi’s artistic intervention unfolds the effect of the room as a whole and directs the gaze in a wide variety of directions and perceptions. Her work therefore consists of two pictorial elements: firstly, a flat painting that frames everything in the lower part of the room into a kind of “basin”. The line at which the colour changes to the usual white of the walls follows the line of sight when standing in the room and looking from one side to the other – similar to sweeping your gaze along the horizon of a mountain range. The surface takes up the colour of the floor, but is interspersed with many silver pigments, so that the surface shimmers depending on the incidence of light. The second element is a gesturally painted mural which takes up the entire end wall of the room. It is designed for the view you have while lying in bed – perhaps the most common perspective in a hotel room. In Levi-typical style, the painting shows large, enormously dynamic movements, framed by a kind of border. Here, green and blue tones alternate, merge with one another, and meet on doors, cupboards or walls – like branches or water carving their way through the landscape.

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The artist, born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1961, raised in Aargau and now living in Basel, has been one of the internationally best-known Swiss artists not only since her design of the façade of the Federal Palace in Bern in 2023. Trained as an architect, Levi has been creating space-filling yet minimalist installations since the 1990s. She first became known for her sprayed wave drawings, and today also works with reliefs, plaster or as large-format carpets of knotted drawings.
Her works have been shown in exhibitions including: Palais de Tokyo, Paris F / The Approach London GB / Galerie Mezzanin Genève, CH / Kunsthalle Zürich CH / Galerie Philipp Zollinger Zürich CH / TANK Basel CH / Gallery Oektemaykut Istanbul TRK / Villa du Parc Annemasse, F / Musée d’Evreux F / Biennale de Lyon F / Museum Langmatt Baden CH / Istituto Svizzero Milano I. Since 1998, Renée Levi has worked together with Marcel Schmid as Studio Renée Levi.

More information at www.reneelevi.ch