Hugo Brun

A Creator Between Art and Design

In 2019, Hugo Brun founded his own contemporary furniture house and immediately affirmed an ambition: to create pieces unlike anything known. Bright colors, geometric shapes, sometimes exaggerated proportions, and unexpected materials come together in a universe where the boundary between functional object and sculptural work is deliberately erased.

Contrary to the idea that an object should blend discreetly into its surroundings, Hugo Brun designs pieces made to attract attention, disrupt visual comfort, and spark conversation. Through his approach, an interior becomes an expressive environment where art and design become a true experience.

A Universe of Contrasts

His entire body of work is based on the meeting of opposing worlds: nature and the urban universe, the ancient and the contemporary, integrity and fragmentation. He thus brings together ancient Egypt and the Memphis movement of the 1980s in Touthankouleur, or challenges the classical ideal of the ancient Venus with graphic motifs in Memphis Venus. With Banana Ming, colorful pills overrun the blue-and-white decor of a vase inspired by the Ming dynasty.

Street art occupies a central place in his imagination. Oceanwide Plaza pays tribute to the unfinished towers of Los Angeles covered in graffiti, while Street Pool and Street Dolphin were born from the memory of an abandoned water park that the artist once entered, a forgotten place reclaimed by graffiti artists.

Characters and Series

Hugo Brun has created an entire world of recurring characters. Mrs Kloud, whose face is a constantly transforming cloud, embodies a contemporary identity saturated with images and information. Her companion Mr Thunder, with a lightning-shaped head, symbolizes impulse and energy. Romulus, a traveler crowned like an emperor and masked like a rebel, oscillates between the ancient world and urban culture, while Aiko pays tribute to manga and Japanese animation.

In painting, the artist develops several series: graffiti and Pop Art interventions on the covers of famous tabloids, the Non Sense series, which brings together images with no logical connection, and the Fantome series, which reinterprets color charts by assigning them intimate and humorous descriptions.

Humor as a Language

For Hugo Brun, humor often serves to question our era. NOT MDMA, a giant and deliberately absurd pill, questions the ideal size of a dose of happiness. Pumped, an oversized balloon emblazoned with the word EGO, mocks vanity, while Frozen Lust freezes watches and banknotes in a block evoking ice to question our relationship with luxury and desire.

For the artist, art remains above all open to interpretation: he seeks to arouse an emotion and leave everyone free to form their own perception, rather than impose a meaning.

An International Presence

Hugo Brun regularly travels throughout Asia to present his work to a growing network of clients and collectors.