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Ed Young
12 August to 8 September 2019

With his provocative and socio-critical interventions in galleries and art institutions, and as co-operator of a project room in his home city of Cape Town, South African artist Ed Young has risen to fame. Ed Young plays with the role of the artist as the jester, entertainer and admonisher, and provokes viewers with works which critically mirror South African society and the Western-oriented art industry with subversive humour and zestful incorrectness. During his stay at the hotel studio, Ed Young presents an installation in the shop windows of the “Die Diele” off-space in the Langstrasse district.

Ed Young “It’s Fun Without You”
22 August to 30 September 2019

Die Diele shop window exhibition, Sihllhallenstrasse 4

Eva Vuillemin
28 July to 12 August 2019

Born in Zurich, Eva Vuillemin lives and works in Berlin, where she studied for a master’s degree in art at the University of the Arts. The young artist works with videos and analogue photography, and has an artistic interest in technical craftmanship in the photo laboratory and in manipulating, editing and accentuating imagery through exposure, superimposition and chemicals. The actual image is first produced in the darkroom. Eva Vuillemin has been commissioned by the 25hours Hotel Langstrasse to create exclusive, large-scale photographs. During her stay, the artist roams the Langstrasse district with her camera in hand and the familiar yet also distanced view of someone who hasn’t lived there for quite some time. Back in Berlin, a subjective and personal homage to Langstrasse emerges from her studio.

Gorod Ustinov
3rd to 30th July 2019

The micro-artist group Gorod Ustinov from Izhevsk, Russia has been working on a long-term research project, “Museum.Delivery”, to explore the possibilities that a museum offers in terms of facilitating both participation and an exchange of ideas. “Museum.Delivery” is an art service: Gorod Ustinov provides and creates museums wherever they are needed. Interested parties were able to visit Gorod Ustinov at the hotel, either in the studio on the ground floor or at the bar, or alternatively, the group can be contacted via email (in English) at gorodustinov@gmail.com.

Message salon invited Gorod Ustinov to stage an exhibition in Zurich to dress the window of the creative space “Die Diele” in the Langstrasse Quarter. In the hotel’s studio, the group created artworks from recovered materials, and a limited-edition publication was released to coincide with the opening of the exhibition.

Exhibition 
Gorod Ustinov“Erde der Langstrasse” 
Opening 25th July, 18h - 22h

Window exhibition 25th July to 18th August 2019, 24/7

Die Diele
Sihlhallenstrasse 4
8004 Zurich 

Stini Arn
30 March to 15 April 2019 

Born in Switzerland, artist and musician Stini Arn lives and works in Bamako, the capital of Mali in West Africa. The musician Stini Arn has not only been following sounds across the world for many years, but also the history of textiles, especially weaving at the loom. In Bamako, the artist built a loom and revived almost forgotten traditional techniques, patterns and fabrics alongside her Malian weaver friends. The artist also opened the Atelier Yiriba in Bamako, an open space for local children to be creative. 

Stini Arn and Dramane Mallé are opening the studio to friends, enthusiasts and hotel guests on Saturday, 13 and Sunday, 14 April from 4 p.m.

Sergio Rojas Chaves
1st to 14th October 2018 

Sergio Rojas Chaves, born in Venezuela, lives and works in San José, Costa Rica. Sergio Rojas Chaves’ performances, collages, artworks and photographs encapsulate the relationship between humanity and nature. The young artist operates the artist run space Nos Vemos in San José and he is co-curator of the Réunion Costa Rica art space, which has roots in Zurich. By invitation of Réunion Zurich, Sergio Roja Chaves spent his residency at the hotel studio creating an installation for the window display of the “Die Diele” art space and planning a performance to be staged during the opening.

Exhibition
Sergio Rojas Chaves
“It’s For The Birds”
11th to 21st October 

Die Diele
Sihlhallenstrasse 4
8004 Zurich 

Mark Divo
23rd August to 3rd September 2018

The Zurich-raised artist and curator Mark Divo has gained fame beyond the city limits as an initiator of a wide range of cultural initiatives. His career highlight took place in 2002 with the renovation and takeover of the historical Cabaret Voltaire on Spiegelgasse. Ever since, Mark Divo has worked to reinvent Dadaist tradition in Zurich with his many Dada-Festwochen events. Mark Divo is currently based in the Czech Republic and operates an art space, “The Solution” in Prague. Mark Divo set up a temporary shop in the hotel studio that carried his art and the latest collection from his fashion label “Gangster Hippie Fashion”.

All visitors welcome!

Anna Lukashevsky
5th to 21th August 2018
11th September to 16th October 2017

Anna Lukashevsky was born in Vilnius, Lithuania and lives and works in Haifa and Tel Aviv, Israel. The artist is a member of the New Barbizon painters’ collective. New Barbizon is bringing figurative painting back to contemporary art, back to our everyday lives, and back to the streets. By invitation of message salon embassy, Anna Lukashevsky spent some time in Zurich and took to the streets with her sketchbook in hand. At the hotel studio, the painter works with oil and acrylic paints on canvas. A selection of the pictures and sketches, including quick studies of hotel guests and portraits of hotel staff, was presented as part of an exhibition in the studio at the end of her residency.  

Exhibition
13th to 15th October

The second residency at the hotel studio
5th to 21st August 2018

Exhibition at Kulturhaus Kosmos
16th to 19th August 

Chloe Feinberg
24th July to 4th August 2018

The British-American artist Chloe Feinberg’s media include drawings, animations, videography and paintings. The art book publisher Innen invited the London-based artist to participate in the launch event for the Innen publication “Chloe Feinberg: Hermetica” with a small exhibition at the publishing house’s Zurich office featuring the large-scale images she created during her residency at the hotel studio.

Louis M. Schmidt
19th June to 8th July 2018

The American artist and publicist Louis M. Schmidt, who is based in L.A., sketches his (introspective) observations wherever he goes. The artist used the hotel studio as a starting point for his tours of the streets and creative spaces of the city. Louis M. Schmidt publishes his drawings on his blog and produces small editions of zines (b&w booklets) that he shares with people at art book fairs and in a global self-publishing network. 

Oliver Ross
18th May to 6th June 2018

Artist Oliver Ross, who lives in Hamburg, is the founder and sole member of ROSSOLOGY, which has a manifesto that the artist wrote in 2013. His works include paintings, text and spatial installations.

During his residency at the hotel studio, Oliver Ross produced vibrantly coloured luminous objects, drawings and collages made from a range of materials, including recovered materials. At the end of his residency, the artist invited visitors to see his exhibition in the hotel studio.

Exhibition and apéro at the hotel studio
4th June, 5pm-8pm

Rich Bott
26th May to 5th July 2017

The American artist and filmmaker Rich Bott formed the artistic duo Animal Charm in 1995 with Jim Fetterley, and the duo have become pioneers in video footage collages and are still active in Los Angeles.Rich Bott was invited to spend time at the message salon embassy in Zurich. At the end of his residency, Rich Bott presented a small exhibition at the studio that coincided with the release of the publication “Geissengeist Gelassenheit”, a zine with the latest drawings, finds and texts created during his residency at the hotel on Langstrasse. 

As part of the opening event, Rich Bott showed a music video “Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti”, made by Animal Charm and Ariel Pink in 2011, on the hotel TV in suite 724, followed by a discussion about VHS video art and American media and pop culture involving the artist and Zurich-based film expert Marcy Goldberg.

Exhibition at the hotel studio 
29th June, 6pm to 10pm 
7pm hotel suite 724 with bar: Video screening, followed by a discussion with Marcy Goldberg

Lukatoyboy
24th April to 21st May 2017

The Artist Residence Programme was launched at the newly opened 25hours Hotel Langstrasse with the Belgrade-born artist Luka Ivanović, aka Lukatoyboy. The sound artist, who is based in Berlin, was invited by the message salon embassy to spend a month living at the hotel. As part of the message salon embassy welcome party, Lukatoyboy appeared with a live rendition of a Playstation sound composition, and the Tel Aviv underground lo-fi musician Ryskinder played his first concert in Switzerland. The publication “Hotel Confidential” was released at the end of Lukatoyboy’s residency. On his many trips, the artist rifled through the computers in hotel lobbies, including those at the 25hours Hotel Langstrasse, for any documents left behind. At the opening event, Lukatoyboy played a DJ set using tapes in the Audiotape Lounge on the first floor of the hotel.

Welcome the artist, concerts in the hotel studio
Lukatoyboy/ Ryskinder 
Sunday, 30th April, 9pm

Opening and tape DJ set by Lukatoyboy in the hotel’s Audiotape Lounge, 1st floor
18th May, 6-9pm