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“Glass is materialised light”

Palová + Pala are among the most important protagonists of the European studio glass movement. The couple met in the 1970s at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, in Václav Cigler’s class in the architectural glass department. After graduating, Pala and Palová set up a workshop in Bratislava and later began experimenting with mould-fusing techniques.
Visits are possible at any time by appointment.
Please contact: Phone : 040 / 325 308 33 //  Mail: info@glassart.de → Read more

Baedeker’s first trip to the Rhine as an artistic excursus
After Karl Baedeker took over Franz Friedrich Röhling’s publishing house, which had gone bankrupt, he had the latter’s first Rhine travel guide revised and published as ‘Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln, Handbuch für Schnellreisende’ in 1832. The publication was an expression of the emerging Rhine Romanticism. This first Rhine travel guide by Baedeker is the starting point of this exhibition.
The exhibition – an art project by Ingo Bracke and Stephan Kaluza → Read more

Grand World Theatre in Bad Rothenfelde
This year, the lichtsicht7 Projection Triennale is entitled ‘Great Theatre of the World in Bad Rothenfelde’. Curator and Artistic Director Michael Bielicky explains: “The title naturally has a lot of connotations. In the global post-Corona era, highly dynamic world events can hardly be explained with conventional methods. It is artists coming from the most diverse global cultural circles who are better at reflecting …  → Read more

Moon – Mercury – Venus – Jupiter – Mars – Sun – Saturn
KLANGLICHT has been bringing artists from all over the world to Graz since 2015 and transforms public spaces, squares and buildings with light and sound every year. Strolling from one location to the next, visitors become part of the staging of light and colour, music and text. The invited artists were inspired by the historical image programme of the palace and its gardens, and developed works of art that connect to the baroque iconography. → Read more

with SolaFrame 3000-light fixture by ETC

Janet Echelman transforms public places around the world with her giant net sculptures. Her art meanders at the intersections of light and art, between architecture, urban planning, material science, computer science and civil or aeronautical engineering.

Janet Echelman and our bond with this planet

‘Earthtime 1.78 Vienna’ is illuminated with a powerful and balanced light that draws soft lines even in intense colours like blue and red but even in delicate pastels. → Read more

Phenomena of viewing

In this exhibition, the sensory properties of light and colour are of particular importance. All artworks dispense with mimetic or depictive elements, they are non-representational or abstract throughout. They do not formulate a readable narrative. The show is about the perception of artworks and the highly diverse aspects of an aesthetic of difference. All works use light as a medium and reflect different lighting situations in their own way. → Read more

light – myth – material

rosalie (Gudrun Müller, 1953-2017) celebrated her greatest successes with her productions for the ‘Ring des Nibelungen’ on the Green Hill. After her set and costume design productions for the Schwetzingen Festival, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Zurich Opera House, the Teatro alla Scala Milano and the Hamburg State Opera, rosalie came to Bayreuth in 1994. → Read more

Media Art in Dialogue with Nature and Society

The exhibition looks at light as a metaphor for knowledge. With 21 installations by a total of 15 artists, the spectrum includes room-filling installations, objects and light boxes as well as neon and video works. The exhibition surprises with visual experiences and sensual seduction. → Read more

Works in Light (1956-2017)

Heinz Mack has created rotating light sculptures, glittering steles, wings, fountains, gleaming golden bronze sculptures, prisms, cubes, moving rotors and Land Art. About a hundred of his works can be found in public spaces. Now he is 90 years old. The Museum Ritter is dedicating a retrospective to Heinz Mack on his birthday. The tour leads from the multifaceted and impressive light experiments in the 1960s → Read more

panta rhei – between heaven and earth

In the Arne Jacobsen Foyer of the Herrenhausen Gardens, something troubling can be observed: a river flowing through the space just below the ceiling. Priceless cultural assets seem to fall before our eyes into a never-ending stream of transience. They flow unstoppably from the Baroque Galerie into the glass cuboid. We can’t tear our eyes away from this catastrophe: figures and busts, coins and vases, diverse social identities are washed away in this abstract riverine animation. → Read more