Queen of the North / Emilie Steele & Sebastian Dell’Uva. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Located in the small village of Jukkasjärvi 200 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, Sweden’s ICEHOTEL is the world’s largest ice structure, constructed each year from over 4000 tonnes of ice and snow.
With winter now officially underway in the Northern Hemisphere, the 2017-2018 version of the ICEHOTEL is now open. In addition to a new permanent section of the hotel kept cool year round by solar energy, for this year’s iteration, the hotel invited 36 artists from 17 countries to design the structure’s main spaces and guest rooms, including new surreal “art suites” that truly transport visitors into a otherworldly winter wonderland.
Check out some of the wildest ones below.
Monstera / Nina Kauppi & Johan Kauppi
Monstera / Nina Kauppi & Johan Kauppi. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Livoq / Fabien Champeval & Friederike Schroth
Livoq / Fabien Champeval & Friederike Schroth. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Queen of the North / Emilie Steele & Sebastian Dell’Uva
Queen of the North / Emilie Steele & Sebastian Dell’Uva. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Radiance / Natsuki Saito & Shingo Saito
Radiance / Natsuki Saito & Shingo Saito. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
The Invisible Invincible Army / Nina Hedman & Lena Kriström
The Invisible Invincible Army / Nina Hedman & Lena Kriström. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Danger Thin Ice / Franziska Agrawal
Danger Thin Ice / Franziska Agrawal. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Daily Travellers / Alem Teklu & Anne Karin Krogevoll
Daily Travellers / Alem Teklu & Anne Karin Krogevoll. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Follow the White Rabbit / AnnaSofia Mååg & Niklas Byman
Follow the White Rabbit / AnnaSofia Mååg & Niklas Byman. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Ground Rules / Carl Wellander & Ulrika Tallving
Ground Rules / Carl Wellander & Ulrika Tallving. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
King Kong / Lkhagvadorj Dorjsuren
King Kong / Lkhagvadorj Dorjsuren. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Last Fabergé Egg / Tomasz Czajkowski and Eryk Marks
Last Fabergé Egg / Tomasz Czajkowski and Eryk Marks. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
34 Meters / Luca Roncoroni & Dave Ruane
34 Meters / Luca Roncoroni & Dave Ruane. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Hang in There / Marjolein Vonk and Maurizio Perron
Hang in There / Marjolein Vonk and Maurizio Perron. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
White Desert / Timsam Harding & Fabián Jacquet Casado
White Desert / Timsam Harding & Fabián Jacquet Casado. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Wandering Cloud / Lisa Lindqvist
Wandering Cloud / Lisa Lindqvist. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
A Rich Seam / Howard Miller & Hugh Miller
A Rich Seam / Howard Miller & Hugh Miller
Cumulus / AnnaKatrin Kraus & Hans Aescht
Cumulus / AnnaKatrin Kraus & Hans Aescht. Photograph by <a href='http://http://www.asafkliger.com/'>Asaf Kliger</a> © <a href='http://https://www.icehotel.com/ice-galleries/art-design-2017-2018/'>ICEHOTEL</a>
Space Room / Adrian Bois & Pablo Lopez
Space Room / Adrian Bois & Pablo Lopez
