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Create your dream art project at ICEHOTEL - the design competition is open

Every year, ICEHOTEL takes a new shape – created by creative minds from all over the world. Do you dream of designing an art suite made of ice and snow? Applications are now open for the international design competition for ICEHOTEL 37, with a deadline of April 11, 2026.

ICEHOTEL is more than a hotel. It is an ephemeral art project, built from snow and ice harvested from the Torne River, where each winter brings an entirely new design. What ideas, expressions, or unexpected details would you like to contribute? Thought-provoking, playful, innovative, or quietly beautiful – there are no predefined boundaries for how the art suites should look. The only requirements are that the design is your own, includes a bed, and - of course is created from ice and snow. Read more about the application process.

An Ever-Changing Art Project

ICEHOTEL is not only a hotel and art installation, but also a tribute to nature and the Torne River – one of Europe’s last untouched waterways. Here, art, craftsmanship, and nature meet in a unique context where artists are given the opportunity to create something truly extraordinary, and visitors step directly into a world shaped by ice and snow.

“It is always exciting to open the application process and welcome ideas that will create next winter’s ICEHOTEL. This year, we have also chosen to set the deadline to Saturday, April 11, the same day ICEHOTEL 36 closes. This creates a natural flow from one ICEHOTEL to the next. At the same time as we conclude one year’s work, we begin shaping the next,” says Luca Roncoroni, Creative Director at ICEHOTEL.

Over the years, a large number of award-winning designers and artists have been part of the project. Among them are the Swedish duo Bernadotte & Kylberg and the design duo Kauppi & Kauppi, both internationally acclaimed and recipients of multiple awards, including the Red Dot Award. In the creation of ICEHOTEL 36, 32 artists from 12 countries took part.

Ice Art on Nature’s Terms

The construction of ICEHOTEL is an international art symposium where the selected artists gather in Jukkasjärvi at the end of November for two intense weeks of creation. Ice and snow become their working materials, and each art suite is an original installation that exists for one winter – only to melt and return to nature when spring arrives.

“There is something truly special about knowing that next year’s ICEHOTEL is currently frozen in the river. I very much look forward to seeing this year’s applications and following how the ideas take shape here on site in Jukkasjärvi,” says Marie Herrey, CEO of ICEHOTEL.

Application and Selection Process

ICEHOTEL welcomes applications from all creative disciplines – not only from ice and snow sculptors. The selected entries are selected based on creativity, concept, innovation, feasibility, and the experience created for the hotel’s guests.

The artists are solely responsible for completing their own art suites, but can get help and support from ICEHOTEL’s experienced construction team, as well as a lighting team that, in close collaboration with the artists, develops a lighting plan for each art suite.

A jury from ICEHOTEL evaluates the applications and selects the artist teams that will be invited to participate in building ICEHOTEL 37, which opens on December 11, 2026.

Read more about the selection process and apply here.

Press Images and Further Information


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Press Images and Information – application ICEHOTEL 37

Press contact:
\u200bJosefin Lindberg, Press & PR Manager ICEHOTEL
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Press images: Ceremony Hall Echo, Luc Voisin & Mathieu Brison, France, ICEHOTEL 36, Sweep Me Off My Feet, Elin Julin & Ida Mangsbo, Arctic Archive, Kristina Möckel & Sebastian Scheller, Germany. Photos Asaf Kliger.

ICEHOTEL 36 by the numbers

Quick facts about ICEHOTEL

About ICEHOTEL ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi opened in 1989 and is both a hotel and an art exhibition with ever-changing original ice and snow art. Each winter, ICEHOTEL is recreated entirely from ice harvested from the Torne River, one of Sweden’s national rivers and last untouched waterways. When the winter season melts, a part of the hotel remains open year-round as ICEHOTEL 365.

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