ICEHOTEL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About ICEHOTEL

What is ICEHOTEL? A hotel built of ice and snow, would be the most common response. The first and the largest in the world, someone might add. But we have more thrilling stories to tell. Lean closer to your computer screen and we'll whisper them in your ear.

Like most companies, we have a history and a business concept. Our ideas originate from the place we stand on; Jukkasjärvi. The river Torne that flows outside our office windows, the cold arctic climate, The Northern Lights and the Midnight Sun.

 

Every season allow us to get inspired by the river, whether it is crystal clear ice, rapids shooting on a riverboat or a magnificent, recently caught grayling.

This is what we have promised to offer the rest of the world; with Jukkasjärvi and Torne River as a starting point, develop and offer sensuous, inspiring and unique experiences within art, nature, accommodation and gastronomy. That reflects all seasons of the year.

So it is not a only a hotel we build each winter, it is an ephemeral art project. And it is not a menu we create for every season, we cultivate the many flavours of Swedish Lapland.

 

Each year, we attract visitors from all over the world to a little village in Lapland, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. Many of them we take further north, explore the high mountains, all the way to the northern Norway to visit the fjords.

Others encounter us and the Torne River ice in world cities such as London and Tokyo, or at a trade fair in Chicago or Barcelona. See, our river is not only the most well-traveled one - it is also famous all over the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A call for Suite designers for ICEHOTEL#22

 

 

Are you a designer, architect, painter, sculptor, etc? Each year artists from around the world are selected to design Art Suites in ICEHOTEL, no matter if they have previously worked with ice and snow or not. You can become one of those artists by sending us your application and idea for an Art Suite no later than July 1st.

Using only ice and snow for material, ICEHOTEL is constructed anew during every November and December and melts away during late spring. By day these suites form the gallery of the hotel, visited by 30 000 people every winter season and slept in by 15 000 international guests during the season.

Every year artists from around the globe are selected to design and construct the ICEHOTEL suites. Experience with the material is not a requirement; artists from all disciplines are invited to apply. ICEHOTEL has previously hosted sculptors, painters, designers, architects, multimedia artists, textile artists, set designers, etc.

We hereby invite artists from around the world to send a proposal for the
ICEHOTEL Art Suites 2011/12.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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