Back in the Upper Pleistocene, a ground squirrel buried the plant's fruit in the banks of the Kolyma River. They froze. Over millennia, the squirrel's burrow fossilized and was buried under increasing layers of ice. The plants within were kept at a nippy -7 degrees Celsius, surrounded by permanently frozen soil. They never thawed. They were not disturbed.
ILKA RAUPACH (*1976) is a german sculptor. Training as an ivory master carver in Michelstadt and Uummannaq, llulissat, Greenland; Studies in Sculpture at Burg Giebichenstein College of Fine Art in Halle and Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway; 2009-2019 Assistant Professor at the Technical University Braunschweig.
LINE JASTRAM (*1984) is a german sculptor. Training as an goldsmith in Hamburg and Berlin; Studies in Sculpture at Burg Giebichenstein College of Fine Art in Halle and Accademia delle belle arti di Torino, ltaly.
ICEHOTEL 33 & ICEHOTEL 365
