Chambres de luxe: Artists as Hoteliers and Guests examines the hotel as an artistic dispositif situated at the intersection of architecture

, social practice, and institutional critique. The project departs from the observation that, since the late 1990s and early 2000s, artists have increasingly employed the hotel not merely as a motif, but as an operative structure: a temporary institution, an economic model, and a site of social negotiation.

Within these practices, established role distributions are deliberately displaced. Artists assume the positions of hosts, operators, and residents, while guests become active participants within an artistic setting. The hotel room functions as a threshold space between public and private, service and authorship, fiction and real use. Questions of hospitality, access, exclusion, payment, and legality are not represented symbolically but are enacted through concrete situations.

These projects frequently operate through temporality and provisionality, often testing or deliberately transgressing institutional and legal frameworks. In doing so, they foreground the hotel as a model of social organization and render visible the entanglement of economic, spatial, and symbolic orders. Chambres de luxe thus contributes to a broader discourse on art as social infrastructure and on the relationship between artistic practice, everyday life, and institutional conditions.