Artplus is one of the many unique boutique hotels in the Atlas Chain.  The hotel is entirely dedicated to contemporary Israeli Art and its creation was a collaborative project between Doron Sabag and the Atlas Chain.  With the purpose of showcasing original Israeli  contemporary art, there are pieces featured from Sabag’s own private collection while the rest of the hotel is filled with site specific works from Israeli artists. Each Hallway in the hotel contains an art piece spanning the entire length of the hall and are all original pieces by 5 different Israeli artisits. Over the years the hotel has expanded the amount of...

  Joining the other 4 rooms in the ongoing “The Room is On Fire” project at Artplus Hotel is room 401 with artwork by Nivi Alroy. All the pieces in Alroy’s work are made out of wood and the images were carved into the wood with small knives.  In addition, all the images in the artwork are architecture buildings surrounding the hotel. Each piece of wood is that of small continents and islands representing that at one time the whole world was connected but then split apart to create these separate areas.  In her artwork Alroy is expressing the problem between the center and the peripheral areas.  It is a utopian piece...

Jerusalem is one of the few cities in the world where you can walk from ancient ruins thousands of years old to a new urban area in under 10 minutes. As you walk around the city you can see the history, the mix of cultures and religions that helped shape the city as it exist today. We are proud to have both our Jerusalem hotels express these qualities through their own design and concept.  The award winning Harmony Hotel represents the harmonious balance of all the qualities that Jerusalem has. First, by being a modern hotel situated in the historic neighborhood of ‘Nachalat Shiva’ (one of the first neighborhoods in New Jerusalem)...

  Another one of the rooms included in the ongoing “The Room is on Fire” project at Artplus Hotel is the piece ‘untitled’ in room 201 by artist Elad Kopler. A strip made of pink synthetic fur on the wall leads those entering the room to the artwork.  Mixing humor into this piece he uses the pink fur to create the form of a television set as the center of the art piece, which leads the viewers imagination to the world of children’s play rooms. A wall drawing that grows hair creates the artwork to be a three dimensional structural – sculpture shape enveloping the walls and ceiling. Kopler personifies the...

  In this guest room, icluded in the ongoing project “The Room is on Fire” at Artplus Hotel, the work of artist  Yochai Matos is featured. The peice entitled ‘‘simple messages’ is a sculptural light installation  in the shapre of a heart and is made from some twenty neon tubes. Today the heart is a graphic sign which has become cliché, a brand name an icon. But by introducing it as a work of art Matos explores the meaning of its power in order to invoke diverse responses from the audience. In the hotel room, a space that is both public and intimate, the piece is mounted over the double bed as a bed is identified...