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The exhibition underground:LIGHT! opens up a rock cellar with extensive passages and cavernous spaces. Architectural conditions — darkness, humidity, temperature, acoustics, and the raw texture of walls and floors — decisively shape the environment for both artworks and sound. The participating artists engage with these rare and unusual conditions, developing their works directly from the site. → Read more

Termin: 25 April - 28 June 2026 > Rückblick

Adresse: Felsenkeller unter dem Turnerheim, Kaiserslautern

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Where Art Finds Hospitality » Hotels as Cultural Spaces

Nestled among the vineyards of the Eisack Valley, Hotel Pachers connects local heritage with regional and international perspectives. Now run by the Huber family in its third generation, the boutique hotel sees itself as a place where architecture → Read more

Termin: 2026 bis 2028

Adresse: Boutiquehotel Pachers Brixen, Italien

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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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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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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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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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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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Walter Giers » Just do it!

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

Light Art from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection

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 ..

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Termin: 19.10.2025 - 19.04.2026

Adresse: Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch/DE

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» 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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