Brixen Water Light Festival 2026

Brixen illuminated in the name of peace

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

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Grammars of Light

Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo 

Seeing Is Never Neutral
  • Ann Lislegaard

  • Cerith Wyn Evans

  • P. Staff

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

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Warren Neidich

Worlds of Light between Neuroscience and Cognition

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.

Interview with Warren Neidich> PDF 

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Termin: 2026

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LIT Lighting Design Awards 2025

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.

Introduction of the award winners, including interviews here > PDF 

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Termin: 2025

Adresse: LIT Lighting Design Awards 2025

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International Light Festivals Organisation »

ILO » Urban Tales in Light and Shadow

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

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Essen Light Festival 2025

» Happy Birthday – 10 Years!

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

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OchoReSotto

Where light meets space, experimental media art begins

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

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CARSTEN NICOLAI

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

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Mischa Kuball > missing link_

Commemoration of the destroyed Great Synagogue in Düsseldorf

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