International Network of Festivals of Light « LichtRouten

International Network of Festivals of Light

In the recent years “Festivals of Light” emerged around the world spreading interests, values and knowledge of the community of expertise dedicated to light and lighting. The rising number of events allocates that the reflected use of light has become a visual seismograph of urban qualities. In their divergent formats they are focusing on lighting technologies and light-based media technologies. Along with museums and galleries they generate a public audience with their virtue to touch and to teach qualities of light. As part of cultural production they refer to time, space and light as much as to form, content and means. Festivals of light situate artistic positions in public environment which can be read as proposals how to see things and how to handle space. As a movement they occur as a public forum of social encounter, knowledge-transfer and public opinion-formation.
Find here here a linklist to festivals and exhibition spaces focussing on light as a material or media.

Arbres et Lumières Geneva www.festivalarbresetlumieres.ch

Belgrade of Light www.belgradeoflight.net

Beneflux Brussels www.beneflux.eu

Berchinale Berching www.berchinale.com

Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst www.kunstlichtkunst.nl

Fête des Lumières www.lumieres.lyon.fr

Fiabesque Peccioli www.fiabesque.org

GLOW Eindhoven www.gloweindhoven.nl

Internationales Lichtkunstzentrum Unna www.lichtkunst-unna.de

Lichtsicht-Biennale Bad Rothenfelde www.lichtsicht-biennale.de

LichtRouten Lüdenscheid www.lichtrouten.de

Lichttage Winterthur www.lichttage.ch