Retrospective >> Ann Veronica Janssens. In her 40-year career, Janssens has worked primarily with light, but has also explored the sensory and performative nature of space and architecture. She examines the limits of human perception and psyche, as well as the aleatory associations of natural phenomena down to their minimal scale. → Read more
The Draiflessen Collection presents a joint exhibition on the art of stained glass, spanning the Middle Ages, the Baroque period and the 20th century. The exhibition shows that stained glass has a long tradition. It highlights the iconographic and technical features of this genre of art and offers insights into the background of the history of its development. → Read more
FILD, the federation of the International Association of Lighting Designers, is a partner of the 25th joint conference of the lighting technology societies of Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as is LUXLUMINA. The future of lighting design will be discussed and awareness raised of the fact that new technologies do not simply replace devices, but create beneficial lighting spaces. → Read more
Inge Dick takes us into a world of colours of light never seen before. With experimental and at the same time poetic photography, she traces the essence of light. Through years of artistic research, Inge Dick has succeeded in capturing the incredible richness of colour in natural light. She makes the changing colour temperatures of the day and the seasons visible – in small formats as well as large-scale installations. → Read more
A visionary apparition in the cityscape
Dan Flavin’s iconic light installation at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin is to be switched off. – In 1996, Dan Flavin succeeded in using light to give the magnificent railway station building of the late classicism of the 1840s a futuristic appearance. Even though railway stations in the 19th century were celebrated as cathedrals of the industrial age, Dan Flavin’s light installation has turned the historic station into a visual myth to this day. → Read more
Michael Pinsky makes the air and climate change the content of his work and especially in the exhibition at the Draiflessen Collection he focuses on sustainability as an action principle for the use of resources. With the processual installation THE FINAL BID – which Pinsky will realise for the first time in the Draiflessen Collection – he transforms the museum into an auction hall for chairs. The largest part of our personal Co2 footprint is caused by the consumption of clothing and household goods.
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The work of Jakob Kudsk Steensen oscillates between the analogue and the digital, between new technologies and scientific discourses, between futuristic visions and multi-layered soundscapes. Steensen works with 3D animation, sounds and immersive effects. At the intersection of hybrid world-building and visual storytelling, he reinterprets ecological themes.
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The exhibition’s title is ‘panta rhei’. With these words, Heraclitus is said to have summed up his teaching: “No one can step into the same river twice, for everything flows and nothing remains.” Two and a half thousand years after the Greek philosopher’s death, his lesson is relevant as ever. All is in flux and things are ever changing, each moment gone in the blink of an eye. Man is part of an eternal cycle of coming and going, birth and death as glimpses of evolution in the continuous becoming of time and space. → Read more
The concept of the exhibition is based on different levels of painting. All artworks relate to the wall and reveal their origins in painting. They have reduced their vocabulary of form to basic geometric structures, because the material they are based on not only serves as material equipment, but colour, form and light appear as central compositional elements as well. → Read more
REMONDIS Light Award
With its transformation from the centre of the coal and steel industry to the third greenest city in Germany and the Green Capital of Europe, Essen stands for sustainability and change like hardly any other major city. Together with REMONDIS, the Essen Light Festival is once again taking up this theme and presenting the REMONDIS Light Award for the third time. The winners will present their light installations, light art or video mappings at the Essen Light Festival. → Read more
