ICE AS MIRROR
Design Pieke Bergmans & Peer de Wit | ICEHOTEL 36 | Available December 2025 - April 2026
Design Pieke Bergmans & Peer de Wit | ICEHOTEL 36 | Available December 2025 - April 2026
A space of reverence.
Where quiet, respectful attention is given to river ice:
cut from the flow, carried here, out of context, exposed.
Not as objects, but as something alive:
holding memory, presence, transformation.
It's about slowing down, noticing, honouring what's often overlooked.
The ice reveals cracks, bubbles - its silent existence.
Visitors pass.
They stand among the ice, behind it, beside it.
Reflections flicker. Bodies merge with matter.
A moment where the boundary between them blurs.
Then the ice softens, dissolves,
and flows back to the living river it came from,
rejoining the movement, it briefly stepped out of.
Pieke Bergmans (born in 1978) is a renowned Dutch artist working at the intersection of art and design. Her work has been shown internationally and is included in major collections such as at the Steeliness Museum Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou Paris and MoMa Kuwait. She works in dialogue with transforming matter, inviting emergence over control, presence over perfection.
Peer de Wit (born in 1974) is a contractor and skilled craftsman. Together with Pieke he created the art suite HIDEAWAY for ICEHOTEL 35, and worked on Love Hotel Tokyo.