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Art & Design

It's all in the details

3/6/2013
It's all in the details as the common quote says. And this is very true for ICEHOTEL. We have gathered some of the more spectacular details from ICEHOTEL #23 - togheter they make an unique experience of art and design, unlike anything else in the...
ICEHOTEL participated in Sapporo Snow Festival 2013

3/6/2013
During the first half of February, the Art & Design team at ICEHOTEL went to Japan to participate in Sapporo Snow Festival. The result: Fourth place in the International Snow Sculpture Contest. We also got the Artist's Choice Award together with...
New Year at ICEHOTEL

2/22/2013
New Year’s Eve on the Torne river bank in Jukkasjärvi is truly something spectacular. For the midnight stroke, locals and visitors from around the world gather in ICEBAR BY ICEHOTEL Jukkasjärvi to toast the New Year “in the rocks” rather than “on...
Photo exhibition on ICEHOTEL – A warm story about a cold place

2/22/2013
For three weeks in December 2012 photographer and sculptor Anna Öhlund and lightning designer John Pettersson built a 40 square meter exhibition hall of snow and ice. They wanted to portray their personal sense of Jukkasjärvi and ICEHOTEL using...
Art Exhibition 2013

2/4/2013
During the winter, visitors to ICEHOTEL have the chance discover the story about building ICEHOTEL, told through photographs by Anna Öhlund and light interpretation by John Pettersson. They have created the first "ski in ski out" photography and...
Tjåsa finds the rythm

1/18/2013
Tjåsa Gusfors and Ulrika Tallving are the artist duo behind the Luxury Suite Absinthe Minded in the twentythird year's rendition of ICEHOTEL. Both are familiar faces in the ICEHOTEL art family. Tjåsa designed for ICEHOTEL for the first time in the...
Building ICEHOTEL #23

1/18/2013
ICEHOTEL is built in stages and the artists arrive group-wise at intervals. Now, during the final week before opening, all 50 are here. The building of snow and ice is bustling with activity and resembles an anthill. In the corridors, it is appare...
ICEHOTEL #23 - Communal Areas

1/18/2013
We can proudly present this year’s rendition of the communal areas of the hotel; The Main Hall, ICEBAR by ICEHOTEL Jukkasjärvi, The Ice Church, The Luxury Suite and The Reception. New for this season is also a photo exhibition and light installati...
ICEHOTEL #23 - Art Suites

1/17/2013
ICEHOTEL opened its doors for the twenty-third time on seventh December and can proudly show the Art Suites in this Photo Essay with pictures by Paulina Holmgren.
Let there be light

1/3/2013
For the first time, ICEHOTEL presents moving light settings in their premises. André Gulliksen is the man with the illuminating task of providing moving light settings to ICEBAR by ICEHOTEL – the original bar in Jukkasjärvi, but also the ephemeral...
ICEHOTEL throughout the years

1/3/2013
Change is what ties together all the twentythree versions of ICEHOTEL. Each adaption has borrowed and changed from previous editions. Still, memories of the earlier hotels can be found in the details of the present one. Change is what inspires us....
Design with a feel for ice and snow

3/7/2012
At home in the Netherlands, Marjolein Vonk works as an interior decorator and stylist. Each winter since 2001, she has returned to ICEHOTEL. With 4 suites and 4 ice churches to her credit, Marjolein is a veteran of ice and snow sculpting. For the...
Way to go Team Sweden

3/6/2012
Jens Thoms Ivarsson, Kalle Ekeroth and Christian Strömqvist, natives of Göteborg and recurring ICEHOTEL artists won 2nd price at the 63rd Sapporo Snow Festival, where 16 countries participated.
The creative process that reshapes nature

3/5/2012
When winter is at its coldest, magic blossoms at ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi. The hotel's snow corridors are tunnels of adventure in which each suite opens the door to a whole new world. It is spellbinding and surrealistic. But how does ICEHOTEL take...
Visions of ICEHOTEL #22

9/26/2011
Step right into this winter's art experience, today! Take a first-hand look at artist renders and sketches of the ICEHOTEL Art Suites and other areas of ICEHOTEL #22.
Arctic women – a zestful meeting of artistic minds

8/31/2011
22nd July, as Greenwich, CT. suffered heat record with +49 degrees Celsius a wind blew in from the north and with it three ladies. “Arctic Women and their Art” was a groundbreaking exhibition in which three prominent artists known from ICEHOTEL in...
Hot, hotter, hottest with ice and snow

5/18/2011
Since the start twenty years ago, ICEHOTEL has built up an impressive competence and an extensive international network of famous designers, artists, sculptors and architects. Here's a taste of a collaboration that is going to be hard to top.
A tearful meeting of ice and magnetite

5/17/2011
The two materials are so totally different to work with. Ice is pure and transparent; the material has an intrinsic lightness. Magnetite, on the other hand, is heavy and much denser. Working in magnetite is a hard and dirty job.” says designer Sof...
THOMS & NILSSON: Top design with ice

3/29/2011
We are met by a flurried explosion as we enter Oktagården and the ice artists’ morning meeting, a sharp contrast to the monochrome bluish white, silent and frozen winter landscape glittering outside the window. The explosion inside is a tumbling o...
TRON: Legacy inspired suite at ICEHOTEL

3/29/2011
Inspired by Disney's release of Tron: Legacy, the British designers Ben Rousseau and Ian Douglas-Jones set out to capture the dynamism and essence of the movie at the world-famous ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden.
Original art north of the Arctic Circle

3/8/2011
The desire to make ICEHOTEL a showcase for highclass art and design has been implicit right from the start. That’s the big difference between the original and the many copies that have appeared throughout the world over the years. each winter,...
Walk with art

3/7/2011
Open your eyes to art from different eras and different techniques when you go exploring through Jukkasjärvi.