Since early April, message salon embassy has taken up residence in the recently opened 25hours Hotel on Zurich’s Langstrasse.The message salon embassy artist residency invites artists to Zurich, where they work in various fields and disciplines while living at the hotel for four to five weeks. We provide our message salon embassy guests with a studio in the hotel’s common area, which can become the message salon art room.
message salon embassy at the hotel
The hotel is both a workspace and the starting point of an expedition. The hotel as backdrop has a special appeal for artists: it is a site of travel, adventure and fleeting, perhaps fateful encounters; of illusions and phantasies, luxury and leisure. However, a hotel is also a place of secrets, a refuge or hiding place, a port of stranded and lost souls and a (chosen or imposed) temporary home. Not least, a hotel is also a workplace, where human labour keeps the challenging 24-hour business afloat.
The artists will enjoy message salon embassy’s hospitality and will explore the local art scene, the city of Zurich and the rapidly changing Langstrasse neighbourhood – all under the guidance of Madame l’Ambassadeur Esther Eppstein. At the end of their stay the artists will publish an exclusive art zine to be presented at a public event at the hotel. In addition, visiting artists will be commissioned to produce a work, to remain in the hotel’s possession.
message salon embassy would like to thank Benjamin Sommerhalder for designing our zines and flyers, as well as the 25hours Hotel and its partners for their support and collaboration.
message salon embassy Hotel
25hours Hotel, Langstrasse 150, 8004 Zürich
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