Artel 17/52 — a hotel as a cultural space
Artel 17/52 is a hotel on Vasilyevsky Island where contemporary culture, aesthetics and considered hospitality come together as one experience. It is a place to live through new impressions, a space for rest, work, company and quiet looking.
Every detail here is considered
Rooms of several categories designed to our own brief, functional work areas, good textiles, gentle lighting and thoughtful technology make a comfortable setting for a short visit, a business trip, time with those close to you or a long stay in St Petersburg.
In time Artel 17/52 will bring together the hotel, a restaurant, a small spa, a gallery and the Cloud9 art residency. Every part will carry the same idea — to make a contemporary culture of travel a natural part of life.
The hotel stands where the historic fabric of St Petersburg meets the city's present-day life, and the closeness of its cultural routes becomes part of the guest experience.
Cloud9
art in motion
Cloud9 is the gallery and art residency to come, where artists will be able to live, work and make new pieces. Guests will meet the artists, watch the work take shape, visit exhibitions and acquire the pieces that speak to them personally.
The idea behind Cloud9 follows the life of a work: from its birth in the studio and its first showing to its travels, its return to the hotel collection, and its meeting with a new owner.
Natalia Shumakova
general manager
“We were not making simply a hotel, and not simply a gallery. What mattered to us was an ecosystem for like-minded people, taken with art, open to growth and ready to share their thoughts and their experience.
The idea of Cloud9 follows the life of a work: the artist and the piece are born, shown, kept, travel the world, and then come back — to find their owner, to find a home.
That is why we join a gallery with an art residency where the artist can live and work. A storage collection will let us keep the pieces with care, bring them back into exhibitions and open rare, particular works to our guests.
All of it will live, grow and interact, helping new work come into being and bringing together those who truly care about contemporary culture.”
