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People come and go every day – in every hotel in the world. They linger in the lobby, in the bar or in the guest rooms. The hotel industry is the perfect place to create artistic points of contact in everyday life. A large painting at the reception arouses interest, a lithograph above the bed invites you to dream. A small drawing in the restaurant tells the story of the hotel over dinner.
HR Group is an international management group in the hospitality sector. The group manages more than 250 hotels in Asia and Europe. The portfolio includes luxury, premium, business and midscale hotels. Founded in 2009 and based in Berlin, the company is committed to the visual arts and supports young artists, including through the “Academy Selection”, an annual exhibition and scholarship program for young artists.
The Mövenpick Hotel Basel, Switzerland, is the official hotel partner of Art Basel in Basel. HR Group, whose portfolio includes the hotel, is proud to be able to support the most important international art fair in the field of contemporary art as part of an exclusive sponsorship.
Art needs an audience. We care about art in our hotels and give it the space it needs to be seen.
– Ruslan Husry, CEO & Founder of HR Group –
HR Group Art Collection – More than a Corporate Collection
Collecting art always means preserving culture. HR Group has been committed to art and culture for many years and creates space for contemporary artists in the genres of sculpture, photography, graphics and painting with temporary and permanent exhibitions in its hotels and the main headquarters in Berlin.
Art in hotels: The large number of hotels in the HR Group portfolio enables us to show a wide selection of works. The HR Group’s art collection includes works in various formats by national and international contemporary artists. New works are regularly acquired through the Academy Selection by HR Group scholarship program in order to expand the quality of the collection and make the cultural commitment a lasting experience for our guests and the interested public.
Parts of the HR Group Art Collection are also regularly loaned to institutions outside the Group.
Academy Selection by HR Group: HR Group’s scholarship program for young artists
Academy Selection by HR Group 2025
Apply now for the artist scholarships!
The Academy Selection by HR Group is an annual scholarship program for young artists as part of an institute cooperation with an art college or art academy. Would your class, university or academy like to take part and present your work at the Pullman Schweizerhof at Berlin Zoo? We offer you a scholarship and a temporary exhibition space per artist for six months. In addition, one work per artist from the program will be purchased for the HR Group Art Collection.
Show us what you’ve got & apply by May 31, 2025. Further information can be found in the call for applications. Click on the video by LoCrew to see what the opening for the Academy Selection by Group 2024 looked like!
News
Cooperation extended: Mövenpick Hotel Basel remains the official hospitality partner of ART BASEL
The Mövenpick Hotel Basel will remain the official hospitality partner of Art Basel in Basel for the years 2025 and 2026. The fair for contemporary art takes place annually in June in Basel and sets the pace for the international art world. The event brings together collectors, gallery owners and art enthusiasts from all over the world in Switzerland.
Kusama, Richter, Koons & Co.: ART BASEL welcomes art collectors and visitors from around the world during June 19th – 22nd 2025
The international fair for contemporary art ART BASEL is the most important and most renowned of its kind. Founded in 1970 in Switzerland the success of the fair is also reflected in the numerous offshoots that now take place worldwide: ART BASEL Hong Kong, ART BASEL Miami Beach and its latest location ART BASEL Paris.
March -Sept 2025: New art in Berlin
From March 2025 til September 2025, the Pullman Schweizerhof at Berlin Zoo will be showing a new exhibition with works by Manuela Knaut, Marina Wittemann, Linda Perthen, Felix Jess, Ilja Freer, Maik Schrainer and Vera Kochubey. We also cordially invite external guests to explore the art on six floors by prior arrangement with the concierge. Enjoy your personal Berlin art experience in one of our finest hotels in Germany.
Growing collection: HR Group purchases art
The acquisition of new works of art always is a great milestone for any collection. The new acquisitions by Annemarie Selleng, Felix Jess, Johanna Herrmann, Maik Schrainer, Linda Perthen, Niklas Washausen and Prof. Christian Frosch from the Academy Selection by HR Group will be on display in HR Group hotels throughout Europe. We are looking forward to extending our Art Collection constantly and to making our art network grow every day.
- Learn more about the artists: Annemarie Selleng, Linda Perthen, Maik Schrainer, Felix Jess, Johanna Herrmann, Niklas Washausen & Prof. Christian Frosch
Cooperations & Art in Hotels
Experience the world of art around HR Group hotels worldwide
100 years of Leica: The Vienna House Ernst Leitz Wetzlar
The 35mm camera was born in Wetzlar and you can feel this everywhere in Vienna House Ernst Leitz, which is located directly next to Leitz Park. In 2025, the Leica camera celebrates its 100th birthday. We would like to congratulate them and are showing 2,500 photographs as part of a permanent exhibition in our hotel, including photographs by the well-known artist Rankin.
Andel’s Lodz: Hotel & Museums in Manufaktura Komplex
Vienna House Andel’s Lodz is one of the best-known hotels in Poland. Housed in an old industrial complex, the hotel is located in the immediate vicinity of the Factory Museum, the Museum of the City of Lodz and the Lodz Art Museum. Works by Leszek Bartkiewicz, Malgorzata Borek, Karolina Bregula, Mikolaj Dlugosz, Filip Berendt and many other artists can be found in the hotel.
“I didn’t think anything of this picture at all!”
“I didn’t think anything of this picture at all!” This is exactly what the artist Prof. Fabian Hemmert has had notarized. The Vice Dean of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Faculty of Art & Design, uses this sentence on his canvases. If you would like to find out more, you are always welcome at Vienna House Andel’s Berlin. We show Fabian’s art on two floors.
- About Prof. Fabian Hemmert
- Vienna House Andel’s Berlin
Congress Hotel Seepark Thun x Galerie 21
The 4-star superior Seepark Thun hotel in Switzerland is home to Peter Liebi’s Galerie 21. With direct view of Lake Thun, Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, the Congress Hotel offers changing exhibitions of contemporary art. Until March 1, 2025, works by the artist couple Monika Buri & John King are on show for house guests and external visitors before the exhibition program changes.
- Seepark Thun, Switzerland
- Galerie21 Seepark Thun
Architecture with charisma in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg
The Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg is located in one of the Hanseatic city’s architectural landmarks. Good to know: The so-called Schanzenturm was once the largest water tower in Europe on a hill (28 level) and is located in the middle of Sternschanzenpark and thus in the immediate vicinity of the popular Sternschanzenviertel, which offers artists a home.
Greetings from Venice: Original Murano glass shines in Stuttgart
The original Murano glass is produced on the island of Murano near Venice and has been made by hand for centuries. The difference to conventional glassware lies in the lighter weight of the Venetian processed material. The Mövenpick Hotel Stuttgart Airport is home to several chandeliers made of Murano glass.
Urban-Art & graffiti in Berlin
Berlin is Berlin is Berlin is Berlin.
Gleisdreieckpark at Potsdamer Platz is a popular and lively hot spot in Berlin for sport and leisure. This is exactly where Vienna House Easy welcomes its guests with urban art and graffiti elements. Street art fans will be delighted!
19 x AMEDIA 19 X ART
The AMEDIA Hotel Luxury Suites Graz is a total work of art. The artist Simone Gutsche-Sikora has achieved the perfect symbiosis between art and design. 49 suites offer each guest an individual experience. Explore yourself the “49 different (p)ARTS of living”. A total of 19 AMEDIA Hotels in 5 countries are part of HR Group.
Art Academy x HR Group
The Pullman Schweizerhof Berlin is home to the HR Group’s scholarship and exhibition program for young positions in contemporary art. From September 13, 2024 to February 28, 2025, the house had shown art on seven floors in cooperation with the Caspar David Friedrich Institute of the University of Greifswald.
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HR Group Art
HR Infinity GmbH
Hauptstrasse 66
D-12159 Berlin