With the Water Light Festival, Brixen makes a compelling statement for contemporary art in public space—and for a theme of striking relevance: peace. The festival forms part of IMAGINE PEACE, a network of five international light art festivals across Denmark, Germany, Norway, Croatia and Italy, co-funded by the European Union. → Read more
Termin: April 29 to May 16, 2026
Adresse: Brixen, Downtown / Italy
Grammars of Light approaches light as an autonomous and conceptual medium. Monumental installations respond both to the museum’s architecture and to the movements of its visitors, turning the act of seeing into an experience that is at once intensely physical and intellectually expansive. → Read more
Termin: 06. Feb 2026 – 10. May 2026
Adresse: Strandpromenaden 2, 0252 Oslo / Norway
At the very beginning of his career, Warren Neidich (*1958, New York/USA) posed the question of how profoundly our thinking is shaped by images, media, and structures of power. To this day, his practice operates at the intersection of art, neuroscience, and political theory. Warren Neidich harnesses light, neon, and projection to make perception and cognition tangible, revealing how sensory experience, neural processes, and social conditions intersect.
Termin: 2026
The 9th edition of the LIT Lighting Design Awards celebrates the winners
The winners of the LIT Lighting Design Awards 2025 showcase the outstanding achievements of international lighting designers, artists, and manufacturers. The winners demonstrate vividly that light remains one of the most powerful tools for shaping how we see, feel, and connect with the world.
Termin: 2025
Adresse: LIT Lighting Design Awards 2025
The International Light Festivals Organisation (ILO) is a global alliance of light festivals, artists and experts dedicated to illuminating public spaces with creativity, innovation and impact. Uniting visionaries from across cultures, ILO fosters collaboration and exchange at the vibrant crossroads of art, design, technology and urban life. → Read more
Termin: ILO AGM 2025 on 24th October
Adresse: Graz _ AT
Walter Giers is counted among the pioneers of electronic art. His interactive objects, sound, and light installations fuse constructivism, kinetics, and light art into ..
The exhibition — dive in and read more → Read more
Termin: 19.10.2025 - 19.04.2026
Adresse: Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch/DE
To mark its 20th anniversary, Museum Ritter celebrates light in all its facets. Around twenty selected works from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection — spanning from the 1960s to today — reveal how light, as material, medium, and metaphor ..
The exhibition — dive in and read more → Read more
Termin: 19.10.2025 - 19.04.2026
Adresse: Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch/DE
The Essen Light Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. What began as a small, experimental event in the northern part of the city center has since evolved into a spectacular event – not only in North Rhine-Westphalia, but far beyond.
For this special anniversary edition, visitors can look forward to 17 impressive light installations, video mappings, and shows spread throughout the entire city center.
Interview with Richard Röhrhoff > PDF → Read more
Termin: 2025
Adresse: Essen / Germany
For more than fifteen years, OchoReSotto has been creating immersive installations, video art, and large-scale projections – both analogue and digital. Spaces and places are immersed in a transformed light, with the surfaces of architecture as well as natural and landscape elements becoming an integral part of the artistic statement. The resulting works move between conceptual rigour and atmospheric intensity, opening up new forms of perception.
Interview with OchoReSotto > PDF → Read more
Adresse: Graz _ AT
A light installation by artist and musician Carsten Nicolai will be on display in the planned new entrance building of the Office of the Federal President in Berlin.
The aim of the art-in-architecture competition was to find a suitable work of art or artistic intervention for the air space of the new entrance building below the five metre high ceiling. → Read more
Termin: under construction / permanent installation | ready in 2025
Adresse: Office of the Federal President Berlin / Germany
The Great Synagogue on Kasernenstraße in Düsseldorf was first desecrated and then set on fire on November 10, 1938 in the course of the National Socialist November pogroms. The ruins were demolished just a few days later. To this day, nothing remains of the synagogue. A memorial plaque has stood on the site since 1946. The building of a media company was later erected on the burnt ground. → Read more
Termin: since November 9, 2023
Adresse: since November 9, 2023 Kasernenstraße on the corner of Siegfried-Klein-Straße, Düsseldorf
