Hotel AX: Inside art
Hotel AX in Jätkäsaari Helsinki is a completely new kind of a playground for arts and a place for rejuvenating inspiration. Hotel AX opens a gateway to art. A gateway into a world that is different from the one surrounding us.
Hotel AX is a compass that helps you navigate Helsinki’s art offering while being an art experience already in itself. The first art hotel in the Nordic region has been realised in collaboration with some of Finland’s foremost modern artists.
At AX you enjoy effortless hotel stay with modern luxurities right next to the beautiful sea shore and attractions Helsinki has to offer. Close to everything, yet in it’s own urban Jätkäsaari area with cool restaurants, bars and more.
A and X – art and experience .
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Whether you come to stay overnight, for a cocktail, breakfast, dinner, brunch, to spend a day away, for an event, training or party – Hotel AX is a promise of an
AX – Art and Experience
Dive in to our world of art and enjoy a hotel stay for all your senses. Warm welcome to experience Hotel AX.
An Orc, Stefan Lindfors
Stefan Lindfors An Orc piece greets the customers of Hotel AX on the facade of the building above the main doors. The work is an eye-catching focal point that the viewer’s eye will inevitably find when walking towards the building. Lindfors tells about the origin of the character and the birth of the idea that the character originated in the world of dreams and appeared to him in a nightmare. The piece continues in the lobby of Hotel AX and the two-headed figure hovers from the main doors all the way over the reception and the hotel lobby.
Stefan Lindfors tells about the process of creating the work:
I stated that AX needs a frontal artwork above the front doors. I thought that the sculpture should of course attract attention, but at the same time I wanted to create an imaginary character that would leave the viewer room to think about what kind of creature it really is.
Humor is a key ingredient in the concept of this work, so that the guest arriving at AX would feel welcome. “Örkki” continues deep into AX’s lobby and in this way binds the exterior & interior to make them cohesive. Finally, I put balls of light in the paws of the two-headed whacky monster and let it’s lipping tongue glow.