Biennial for
Light Art
and
Urban Design
MARCH 18 - 23, 2018
Frankfurt and Offenbach
Light Walk
The heartpiece of Luminale 2018: The Light Walk connects the Luminale venues in the city center into a large open air gallery of light art.
Art
Frankfurt Fades
With his video mapping installation at the Römer, Philipp Geist has developed a site-specific and walk-in light installation.
Community
Animalier & Veggie + RND pixels
The exhibition shows the development of Marco Brianza as a light artist.
Community
Luminale-Express
Two historic trams and a bus invites to roundtrips on the opening and closing evening.
Solutions
City and Environment: Blue Hour
A poetic report on what science has learned since we first saw Earth from space.
Art
Cross Hatch
The façade of the historic Grossmarkthalle, the main building of the European Central Bank, turns into a huge animated street art gallery.
Art
Do we dream under the same sky
It has been developed for the Biennale in Seoul and will now be shown for the first time in Europe: a textile façade that produces electricity and emits light.
Solutions
City and environment: Panel
Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius, Rosemarie Heilig and Dr. Dietrich Schmidt discuss ecological questions of urbanization.
Community
Lighty and Airy
Symbols are floating as illuminated mobiles, light silhouettes and projections through the church interior.
Art
White Album
Neon signs are reduced into white, illuminated minimalistic objects.
Solutions
City and Light: Panel
Prof. Mischa Kuball, Prof. Dr. Harald Welzer and Thomas Kusitzky discuss the consequences and challenges of illuminated cities.
Community
#VIVERE ALL’ITALIANA
A luminous script stands for the beauty and the poetry of Italy.
Art
Urban Lights
A light installation by Diana Ninov on the Frankfurter KunstSäule (Art Column).
Community
Transition Hall
Facade art, light installations, an interactive figure cabinet and illuminated tours: Offenbach’s Main Railway Station on a new Path.
Solutions
City and Security: Panel
Dr. Nils Zurawski, Dr. Markus Müller and Maximilian Otto discuss security in public space.
Art
The young king...
Please note: The project has been canceled. The construction site does not allow an installation and the opening of the old town for visitors at the moment.
Art
The guardians
This quiet work casts colored shadows outwards during the evening – and inwards during the day.
Community
Jugend stärken im Quartier
Young people from Offenbach present microprojects on which they work in their local neighborhoods.
Study
Zeitgeist
What symbolizes today's consumer society better than a broken display?
Art
Orbis Lumen
This three-dimensional Dymaxion world map is made of sugar cubes.
Community
We make colours
Each participant creates his own light art work, all together they become a network.
Community
Black / Light
A series of pictures with fluorescent colors and phosphorous pigments, which will be illuminated by black light.
Community
Reflex
Reflecting light objects and textile works.
Study
P18- 2A
A peaceful meeting place in the turbulence of the present.
Community
Remix der Unikate
Digital light art meets handmade jewelery.
Community
Coming to Light
Five photographers describe the magic of light and how it subtly influences our moods.
Art
Schattenwerfer
Light is not installed, light is removed.
Study
Light Cocoon Frankfurt
The light art work expands into a non-dimensional labyrinth of light and sound.
Art
Über Sehen
Daliah Ziper directs the viewer’s gaze from the illuminated city to its sources of light
Community
Interlaced Correspondence between Light and Shadow
Dynamic Havens of Peace in the City.
Art
Light Boat
Small Lights for a Big Issue – What is our Position?
Study
Underwater
Within the installation, the River Main becomes a resounding protagonist and visual pulse generator.
Community
Lights Place of Stillness
Poetic Lighting Event with floating Glass Artworks.
Art
Light+Light=Shadow
The projection of a Frankfurt-by-Night film, shadowed by gleaming everyday objects of a spatial installation.
Solutions
City and Architecture: Panel
Van Bo Le-Mentzel, Frank Junker and Nikolaus Hirsch discuss the role of architects and urban planners in the growing city.
Community
Neon - Feel the glow
German premiere of the documentray »NEON – FEEL THE GLOW« by Lawrence Johnston.
Study
The distance between us
Institutionalized and industrialized yearning , global, digital, innovative.
Art
Frankfurter Leucht_Originale
Thiele‘s light, typography and word objects consist of letters from old neon signs, which also frequently comprise the history of FRANKFURT ORIGINALS.
Solutions
City and People: Panel
Angela Freiberg, Barbara Steffan and Oliver Elser discuss the challenges of urbanization
Community
The big Game
On the Trail of Dirk Nowitzki
Art
LIGHTSCREW
Light moves from floor to floor, changing color, speed and dynamics.
Community
Poi Gaming Event
Everyone can be part of a lighting event. Just swing the light spheres through the dark night.
Art
Denkstätte
Your thoughts can be part of the control center for mental impulses, which is build of active lights.
Study
If you want to see, you must learn to act
The space-creating sculpture by the Digital Design Unit (DDU) Darmstadt invites visitors to linger, but also holds a hidden message.
Community
The lightness of urban beeing
Light installations consisting of hand-made, hand-colored paper in the Atelier Eastend.
Community
LIGHTS OUT – SOUND ON
Brightness will be dimmed on the Rosa-Luxemburg-Street, with the saved energy Frankfurt City Sound will be broadcast on Hit Radio FFH.
Art
KATHARINEN+PASSION
First light signal of the Luminale: Victoria Coeln's transformation of the St. Katharinenkirche into a multi-facetted work of contemporary light art starts on February 14!
Solutions
City and architecture: Blue Hour
Frankfurt´s new old town: Lecture by Michael Gunterdorf.
Community
Mobile Light Cluster
Frankfurt students present a modular and mobile light sculpture.
Community
one another
Flickering light signals of the Pioneer probe and invocations of a female voice merge into a picturesque and poetic meditation.
Art
building bridges
The project aims to find common themes in major religions, to highlight what links us to “the other”, “the foreigner”.
Community
Look In
The project shows the path from feverish activity towards inner peace.
Solutions
City and people: Blue Hour
Filmscreening and talk with the directors.
Study
Nectus
An Interactive Light Installation on the Theme of Community.
Community
Lumio II
The surface of water as a natural mirror and light-reflecting membrane between the elements of air and water.
Community
»... ALL ART MUST BE PRECEDED BY CRAFTSMANSHIP«
Craftsmanship and light art have re-staged the building of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Chamber of Crafts and Trades.
Community
Luzenz
An interplay of light and paper, translucence, material and immaterial.
Community
The Night – Everything but Sleep
Exhibition in the Museum für Kommunikation.
Community
Light in Production
Nighttime tour through the Industriepark Hoechst.
Community
I stepped into the void and did not fall
The space of the Gustav-Adolf-Chruch in Niederursel is filled with light, images, sounds and words.
Community
Light to Go
During a leisurely walk, like brilliant angels, the trio “saunter”, almost floating through the city.
Community
The Lighting in Stanley Kubrick’s films - especially “2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY”
A talk at the German Film Museum during the exhibition "Kubrick’s 2001. 50 Years - A SPACE ODYSSEY".
Community
Colors of Recycled Plastic
The artworks out of plastic packaging from the household show the attraction of the changeable and evoke an expanded perception through light.
Art
Glowblow
The dynamic bubble of light at the Goetheplatz marks a place that has changed over time.
Community
Logikum.eu - Birth of Digital
Experience the beauty of 0 and 1 - Interactive Didactical Light Art
Art
Loud
The sensor-controlled, transparent advertising light box reacts sensitively to the background noise in its vicinity.
Community
Lichttreppe
Outdoor Life – Indoor Life: Luminale in the Kunstverein Offenbach e.V.
Community
BAF – Bunte Armee Fraktion
Outdoor Life – Indoor Life: Luminale in the Kunstverein Offenbach e.V.
Community
Baumleben
Outdoor Life – Indoor Life: Luminale in the Kunstverein Offenbach e.V.
Community
lighting swarm #lww5
Pop-up Factory for 5-dimensional Light Art.
Community
Light of the Menorah
The presentaion of the Jewish seven-branched candelabrum, the Menorah, in the Jewish Prayer Room at Frankfurt Airport combines the traditional with the modern.
Art
HIBB DER BACH UN DRIBB DER BACH
A poem by Frankfurt literati Friedrich Stoltze is the contextual frame for the typographic light installation on the Eiserner Steg.
Community
Illusion_Line
The installation explores the conflict areas between “protection” and “isolation” and the conditions under which a place of retreat can turn into a cage.
Study
Andere Schöne aus Boskoop
Comedic half-figure portraits cleverly depict the liaison between man and food.
Community
Highlights
DDC Creative Competition on the Theme »Cultural Diversity« for the TAB Street Gallery in Frankfurt’s Taunus Strasse.
Community
Horst Lights: Workshop
Video mapping workshop with Mathieu Cretté, internationally-renowned VJ from France.
Community
HORST LIGHTS
Adlerwerke Facade projection, light installations, Luminale bar and concert.
Study
Bergsilhouette
The abstraction of a mountainous landscape allows scope for multi-dimensional interpretation.
Community
Luminale in the Atelierhaus B71
Exhibition, reading, installation and public painting in the former factory for leather stamping.
Community
Facade illumination – Central Railway Station
The building can, once again, be plunged into atmospheric light for a couple of days and present its prize-winning illumination (German Light Design Award).
Community
Fin sin fin
Malte Kebbel’s installation takes the concept of a 3D puzzle one step further.
Community
Flexipolis
The skyscraper sculptures compose a illuminated cityscape connected by an integrated data network.
Community
Pale shades – Dark shades
Timbres, lighting effects and short readings in the Johanniskirche in Offenbach am Main.
Community
Enlightenment
A moving light installation in the Garden of the New Tibet Haus.
Community
Vexations: Revisited
Over 24 hours, pianists play in succession Erik Satie’s piece "Vexations" while sitting in a specially conceived semi-transparent, illuminated white cube.
Community
(POP) Corn Market
OFB Building site turns into a Popcorn Machine.
Art
Light Reflex
Rotating reflections illuminate four alcoves of the building, allowing it to bask in old memories.
Community
IN THE RIGHT LIGHT
An installation in the Hafen 2 of red, green, blue and their combinations. Light colors and their positions vary to produce different moods
Art
Your Point of view
The grouping of monochromatic lines of light invites us to take part in an explorative tour or our own perception.
Community
Hesen under Power
Exhibition in the Haus der Stadtgeschichte about the history of the electricity industry in the State of Hesse.
Community
Die Fabrik Leuchtet
For the first time, the Kulturwerk will be part of the Luminale - with light installations in the courtyard and two special concerts.
Study
UNWRITTEN
A hint for a future for which everyone is responsible and which each of us can influence.
Community
Cream puffs
The thermal installation presents a magically-green cloud of light floating in the middle of the space.
Community
Brain Flash --- flash your brain
The installation interprets our daily sensory overload and the information processing in our brains.
Study
Pulse
The movements of pedestrians and visitors in the Taunusanlage becomes the light play.
Community
City Light Charts
What happens when it is Light Art instead of advertising that communicates with us in public places?
Community
CINÉTIQUE en exposition
A Design illumination inspired by Figurative Art
Art
No future without history
Projections of historic images of Frankfurt and thought-provoking quotations brings the Carmelite monastery to life.
Community
DESERT SOUND : LENT
Desert life in sound and video installation let the KunstKulturKirche Allerheiligen become a refuge of peace.
Community
Trails of Light ll
Analogue light installations augmented by a live performance with meditative music transforms the St. Antonius Church.
Community
The Diver
Friedrich Schiller’s poem THE DIVER becomes tangible with the use of lighting, fire and sounds.
Community
Luce dipinta
Raffaele Cioffi produces color and light dreamscapes on the canvas.
Community
Blue Hour
You are the Light! The studio and Offspace "Be Poet” becomes an interactive communication and operations base before nightfall.
Better City
Friedberger Warte
An installation that stays.
Art
snow white
A hidden gem is kissed awake.
Study
Urban Climate Canopy
Installation, roofing or street furniture?
Art
#ESWERDELICH:T
Eine performative Licht-Oper für Liebfrauen
Art
strangers
A video installation like something from another world. Habitual elements are processed and transformed in a strange way.
Better City
Light on!
The “Bügel” high-rise settlement on the Ben-Gurion Ring, formerly regarded as a problem district, becomes a creative light-parkour.
Art
All my limitations are in a hurry
Darya von Berner lets the audience play with the sculpture gallery in the Museum of History.
Community
Blow me up
The inflatable lighting rod BLOW ME UP is the latest product from the house of Ingo Maurer.
Community
BASILEA RE-CHURCH
With light and music, the St. Boniface Church becomes an art space.
Art
How good that nobody knows….
Johannes Kriesche‘s light installation is based on the fairytale of Rumpelstiltskin, who spun straw into gold.
Study
THE LUMINALE IN THE INSTITUT FÜR STADTGESCHICHTE
Tour in four stations, facade installation and IAoffen in Frankfurt’s Carmelite Monastery.
Solutions
INNenarchitekturOFFEN 2018
Finissage of the Luminale in the Institute of Stadtgeschichte with the bdia.
Art
5M3
Five Light Cubes at the Nizza Park
Community
The Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT
A Festival within Festival
Community
Light barrel columns
Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT: A living space situation with LIGHT BARREL COLUMNS.
Community
KRANK
Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT: Performance and light artists transform the ground floor and inner courtyard into a colorful world of illusions.
Community
Helios
Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT: A captivating slow motion sequence of the rising sun which then sets again into the sea.
Community
Rural Exodus 6
Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT: In the darkness, a collection of insignificant objects transforms into an illuminated city.
Community
Fade to grey
Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT: Video Installation and Live Performance.
Community
BLACK LIGHT
Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT: Fluorescent drawings and objects, black light.
Community
Inner space connection
Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT: Black light painting and bodypainting are forming a visual essay.
Community
AFTERPARTY
Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT: Performances, light art and music merge into one great spectacle
Community
Public Viewing Commentary
Luminale in the ATELIERFRANKFURT: A video work with sculptures and seating by Frankfurt artist Il-Jin Choi.
Community
An Instant
The goal is to play an active role for just an instant.
Community
1,000 and 1 Years
A visual concert with music and lightpainting in the Dreikönigskirche.
Study
¥UM ¥UM NEOTOKYO
A meeting place with the dystopian neon worlds of Sci-Fi films and Animés.
Art
Alte Oper feiert Luminale Premiere
The façade becomes the projection surface for the studio of visual design Karmachina.
Solutions
Theme day »city and light»: symposium citylights
An event of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.
Art
WESTEND SYNOGOGUE – DISGUISED
A dynamic, interactive projection on the façade of the Synagogue in the Freiherr-von-Stein-Strasse calls attention not only to the location’s historic architecture, but also to Frankfurt’s Jewish Community.
Community
Starlit Moments
Artist Fabio Kempf examines one of mankind’s oldest cultural traditions: observing the star-studded heavens.
Community
in motion
The photographic project visualizes jazz musicians as they improvises in a motion sequence.
Study
Five
The installation focuses on the five phases of death and mourning.
Solutions
Neuer Partner
Die Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft fördert den Luminale-Programmbereich SOLUTIONS.
Solutions
Stadt und Umwelt
Das Umweltamt wird unser Partner.
Art
Mehr Licht für die Goethestädte
Luminale Frankfurt meets Genius Loci Weimar
The Luminale has a festival centre
Our host will be the Instituto Cervantes in the former America House.
The new Concept
“Light and City” are at the heart of the Luminale 2018. Frankfurt, the metropolis on the River Main, will not only be the stage for light art, but also the focus of the Biennial.
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