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
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
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
The exhibition LATENCIES by Daniel Canogar (*1964, Madrid) shows, in addition to his two series of works SMALL DATA and ECHO, his latest series LATENCIES, created in 2021.
“Canogar investigates the interfaces and transitions between virtual and real worlds. In expansive, large-scale installations and generative video animations, the artist is dealing with the impact of media technologies on society; he vividly presents the transition from electromechanical to digital systems → Read more
The large-scale exhibition ReferenzRäume provides an insight into the work of Mischa Kuball. It shows room-sized installations, photographs and video projections as well as documentation from the work complex ‘public preposition’, i.e. those works realised in public spaces. → Read more
The market for Crypto art is exploding – There is a gold-rush atmosphere
For the art market and the rest of the world, the phenomenon has been a great mystery since 11 March. On that day, the auction house Christie’s sold an NFT file by Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) for a fabulous 69 million US dollars.
Is a new era in art history dawning?
NFT is the name of the latest trend. Digitalisation is giving rise to a new art form: because an NFT cannot be copied, every NFT is unique and cryto art is conquering the art market – it is giving analogue art considerable competition. → Read more
Switch II is a project of the Center for International Light Art Unna and the Hochschule der Bildende Künste Saar (HBKsaar) Saarbrücken.
In this follow-up project, students and teachers of the HBKsaar experiment with physical light in drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and performance. The common denominator of the exhibition is an understanding of the image that is inherent in temporality, changeability and transience.
Read full article in ArtLight 2021_1 (February) → Read more
Creative lighting to reimagine cities
LUCI in collaboration with the City of Lyon will organize the Lyon Light Festival Forum. – Created in 2002, LUCI is a non-profit organization bringing together over 70-member towns and cities worldwide that use light as a tool for social, cultural and economic development.
The Lyon Light Festival Forum offers creative lighting professionals from around the world a space to explore new forms of creative lighting in the urban space.
The Lyon Light Festival Forum 2020 is a free online event.
Although Stanislav Lem under no circumstance wanted to be called a science fiction author, his literary works, despite their profundity, are visions and utopias which were conceived decades before the actual development of described complex technologies like neural networks or virtual reality or communication attempts with extra-terrestrial intelligence became a subject of discussion. The association ‘mehr licht’ in Graz chose the title SOLARIS for its next exhibition – and so refers to Stanislav Lem’s famous futuristic novel Solaris (1961) → Read more
Holzer has conquered public space worldwide with her “Truisms” of light, her almost lapidary but critical statements on politics, economy and life. – Holzer sees herself as a political artist. She became enthusiastic about computer technology early on and since she first used LED technology in 1982 to make her texts public, light has become the main medium of her art. From then on, she could have her messages trickled down in huge LED writing strips or monumentally illuminated the silhouettes of cities all over the world. → Read more
