The Artist hosts meetings, conferences, receptions and cocktail events for up to 500 people on a single meeting floor, with a boardroom for 16 and a rooftop terrace that can be privatised. The venue is The Artist Grand Hotel of Art, a five-star hotel on Alameda de Mazarredo in Bilbao, facing the Guggenheim Museum. It has 145 bedrooms, so a delegation can sleep and work in the same building.
Seminars and company events
The hotel lists seven multifunctional rooms on the first floor, all with daylight. They are arranged in two series of three, called Museum and City, together with a boardroom named The Muse. The three Museum rooms look onto the Guggenheim Museum, and the three City rooms overlook Calle Lersundi. All of the rooms can be combined and set up to suit the event, and the hotel gives 500 attendees as the maximum, depending on the layout chosen.
Every room has a screen and projector with an HDMI connection, an integrated sound system and a whiteboard. Business meetings receive notepads, pens and local water. Further audiovisual equipment can be rented from the hotel.
The Muse is the room for a steering committee or a board. It covers 36 m², holds up to 16 people and was designed by Javier Mariscal. It has an 86-inch screen with an HDMI connection, a coffee machine and storage cabinets.
The hotel does not publish a capacity for each room or for each layout, so the figure for a given configuration is confirmed with the hotel when the event is planned.
Rooms and capacities
For a plenary session of a few hundred people, the Museum and City rooms can be opened into one space. For a conference with parallel workshops, each of the six rooms can run as a separate group room, with The Muse kept for a steering committee or a speakers' briefing.
The Rooftop, on the seventh floor, is a terrace with views of the Guggenheim Museum and the river. It can be privatised for receptions and cocktail banquets. Its capacity is not published. Outside private events it is open to the public in the afternoon and evening, from 16:00 to 23:30 between April and October and from 16:00 to 22:00 between November and March.
Accommodation
The hotel has 145 bedrooms, and many of them carry contemporary artworks. A large share of the accommodation has direct views of the Guggenheim Museum and the river. The categories include standard rooms, suites and a penthouse. For a company event, the same building therefore covers the meeting floor, the bedrooms and the evening reception.
Catering
The hotel supplies menus for coffee breaks, welcome drinks, cocktails and banquets, drawing on Basque cuisine with modern touches. There is a street-level bistro, The Gallery, and a lobby bar, Sixty One 61. The Rooftop serves breakfast and, on selected dates, a monthly brunch.
History and setting
Art is the organizing idea of the hotel. Its interior is contemporary and sober, built around an atrium, with works displayed on walls, in corridors and in corners throughout the building. For an event, that gives guests a distinct setting before they enter a meeting room. The location, facing the Guggenheim Museum beside the river, puts the hotel next to one of the city's main cultural sites.
Getting there
The address is Alameda de Mazarredo 61, 48009 Bilbao. From Bilbao-Abando railway station it is about 15 minutes on foot or about 5 minutes by taxi. From Bilbao Airport it takes about 15 minutes by car or taxi. The hotel has private parking, with its entrance at Lersundi 18. Because of traffic and emissions rules in the city, some vehicles have restricted access, and guests send their vehicle details after booking so that the hotel can arrange permits.
