Curating Art for Hotels
Collaborating with the world's most revered hotel brands, our curators develop bespoke art collections for global projects in locations such as Europe, the Arabian Peninsula and Asia.
Each carefully crafted hotel art collection speaks to the unique culture of its context, bringing local heritage to life for a wide audience. Promoting talented local and international artists, every hotel collection feels both relevant and fresh.
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THE ST. REGIS VENICE
ITALY
© Exhibition Photography by Tiziano Ercoli
Arts Bar Terrace © Courtesy of The St. Regis Venice
An Evolving Art Destination in a Heritage Setting
The St. Regis Venice appointed Artelier as its long-term art strategic partner, leading an evolving and cutting-edge programme for a setting both iconic and timeless.
Set on the Grand Canal in one of Europe’s most historic cultural cities, the hotel holds a unique position as a leading art destination with a global audience.
Santa Maria Suite © Courtesy of The St. Regis Venice
Blue-Chip Commissions
As exhibitions and installations evolve, it is important to retain key anchor works that bring continuity and reinforce the hotel’s identity.
Our role includes reviewing existing artworks and advising whether they should remain based on their relevance to the brand, the space, and the guest experience.
Gran Salone, Ai Weiwei, White Chandelier (2022), a site-specific Murano glass installation © Courtesy of The St.Regis Venice
Silk-glass sculpture from Jaume Plensa's Duna series between 2014-15
At the Heart of Culture
Timed with the 61st opening of the Venice Biennale, Artelier developed the cutting-edge exhibition 'Komorebi' that reimagines the hotel as a perceptual environment.
Inspired by the Japanese concept of komorebi, meaning sunlight filtering through trees, it translates the idea through Venice's defining element: water, exploring how light, reflection, and the city's shifting atmosphere shape its sensory experience.
Collaborating with World-Class Studios
Artelier forges cutting-edge artworks between local studios and global artists. Berengo Studio, known famously for mastering glass art, not only worked with Ai Weiwei and other leading artists such as Damien Hirst or Anish Kapoor, but also our proposed artist for the exhibition, Tony Cragg.
Crafted using traditional Murano glass techniques, these sculptures draw on centuries of artisanal knowledge that cannot be reproduced through industrial processes.
Tony Cragg, Seed (2020), glass, 46 × 28 × 25 cm. Loan courtesy of the Artist & Berengo Studio
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Reinventing Classicism
A bronze classical figure is transformed by agave-like forms and a verdigris patina. Like an archaeological relic, the sculpture is exposed to humidity and rainwater, which gradually deepens its oxidation.
Water passes through the work and emerges from the figure’s eye sockets like tears, slowly changing its colour.
Marco De Sanctis, La Pleureuse (Laocoonte) (2023), bronze sculpture with copper patina, 180 × 110 × 70 cm. Loan courtesy of the Artist.
Hidden Surfaces
Exploring the relationship between time and material transformation, this artwork's surface reacts with its environment, which becomes crystallised in engraved, copper surfaces.
The slow process is expressed through subtle grooves and textures that capture and reflect light, creating a rippling, water-like effect.
Marco De Sanctis, Crepuscolo (2019), engraving on copper, 124 × 104 cm each. Loan courtesy of the Max Tomasinelli Collection
Shifting Perceptions
As visitors move through the hotel corridors, this dichroic sandblasted mirror piece appears to come alive in shifting light, its iridescent surface subtly changing in colour and tone.
Flowing from warm pinks and oranges into cooler greens and blues, it mirrors the way light plays across water from morning to night.
Zheng Chongbin, Coriolis Path (2024), dichroic sandblasted mirror, 157 x 137 cm each. Loan courtesy of the Artist & Berengo Studio
Collector's Pieces
In response to Venice’s shifting reflections and shadows, Joan Jonas’ birds gather in drifting, organic formations.
They form a loose constellation that recalls komorebi, where light fractures and filters through shifting surfaces.
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Joan Jonas, Untitled (2015–2016), series of ink on paper, dimensions variable. Loan courtesy of the Artist & Raffaella Cortese, Milan & Albisola
Site-Specific Commissions
With works exhibited throughout the hotel, Marinella Senatore uses light as a shared language extending into the city.
Inspired by southern Italian illuminations and Baroque structures, the installation casts light into Venice’s nightscape, where reflections continue across the water after dark.
Marinella Senatore, We Rise by Lifting Others (2023), neon sculpture, 210 × 880 cm. Loan courtesy of the Artist & Mazzoleni.
Our Scope of Services
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Art Services for Hotel Art
Understand the Project Vision
Each project in the hospitality industry has a unique context, design scheme and brand principles.
As a hospitality art consultant, we collaborate with project teams, interior designers, stakeholders, owners and operators to establish a deep understanding of the project’s vision, and how best to communicate this through high-quality curated hotel art.
Contextual Art Research
Through extensive research into the hotel's context, Artelier unearths ideas for artistic themes and develops visual narratives, intelligently and elegantly weaving them throughout the project.
This thematic approach offers a rich basis for a coherent and bespoke hotel art collection that will have a meaningful connection to the locale and a timeless quality.
Concept Development & Curation
Building on our artistic research, Artelier explores artwork concepts that bring to life the visual narratives. Identifying key locations for art throughout the hotel, we ascertain optimal placement, and specially curate each area to maximise the impact of artworks in the hotel.
Art Specifications & Detail Design
As part of our process, we review each artwork and the hospitality spaces to establish an artwork specification and detailed design which meet the project requirements.
This includes creative direction and the finer details of materiality, as well as technical considerations for hotel art, like framing, installation and fire safety.
Art Procurement & Commissions
To ensure that the artistic vision and narrative is realised to its full potential and quality standards, our hotel art consultants provide a comprehensive service in overseeing the procurement and commissioning process for all artworks.
With a wealth of knowledge of materials and art techniques, we offer specialist art market insight for artwork commissioning and art fabrication to ensure the highest standards of quality across the hotel art project for our clients.
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Project Management
Delivering turnkey hotel project management, Artelier's team of hospitality art consultants and project managers are based on site and can coordinate and supervise each stage of the production process.
We rigorously monitor timescales and liaise with project teams, ensuring that deliverables are met and that the process is efficient and seamless.
Logistics & Installation
Artelier manages project teams and offers full support in organising logistics for delivering art for hotels, including meticulous labelling, fine art packing, shipping, import and export documentation, delivery and specialist fine art installation services on site.
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Working With Hospitality Art Consultants
Working with a luxury hotel art consultant ensures access to specialised expertise and decades of experience in curating art for hotels.
Hotel art consultants can collaborate with key stakeholders to create a richly informed, tailored art collection for clients and guests, from initial concept to final installation, providing a complete turnkey service.
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"Working with Artelier was a pleasure. Their work demonstrates intelligent thought processes and remarkable creative abilities, with a clear understanding of the client’s brief. David was collaborative, open to challenges, and easy to work with. He truly listened to achieve the desired result."
Nadia Shafiq, Omniyat
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