Bright Collaborations
Bright Collaborations is Copenhagen Light Festival’s way of acknowledging and including strong light installations that were not created specifically for the festival.
For participating partners, we have a budget to edit and present the videos, photos, and texts we receive on the festival’s website, map, and app — making the installations visible to the interested audience, which reached 400,000 visitors last year.
While the Light Hesitates // Rundetaarn
By: Yoke
Location: On the top of Rundetaarn (Opens in google maps)
Accesible from 6th February to 6th April
“While the Light Hesitates” rises from the top of the Round Tower as a softly shifting circle of light that draws attention across the city. Its circular formations echo Ole Rømer’s observation of Jupiter’s moon Io, turning the subtle delay of light into a calm, rhythmic choreography. Visitors sense light’s scale and timing as the installation interacts with the tower’s architecture and the surrounding space. The work links a groundbreaking scientific discovery with a contemporary experience of how we perceive and interpret the world. It is presented as part of Copenhagen Light Festival and LYSÅR 2026.
The artist
Yoke creates sensory, interactive works exploring how we experience the world. Rooted in art, design, and technology, they merge storytelling and communication, transforming knowledge into immersive experiences.
A Shelter in Hyperspace // Amagerplanen & Områdefornyelsen Sønderbro
By: Onomato & Diktakrom
Location: The intersection between Amagerfælledvej & Brydes Allé (near Brydes Allé 24A)
Accesible from December 15 until March 15.
Step into A Shelter in Hyperspace – a small space in reality. Here, colors twist across the viewer like a mosaic of light and reflections. The installation rises as a passage between the ordinary residential area Hørgården and Sundholm in Amager, offering the opportunity to pause or be carried along on the journey.
The work connects our earthly existence with a digital realm that has both pulse and rhythm. The light sequences in A Shelter in Hyperspace were developed in collaboration with the area’s residents, where their imagination and aesthetics were translated into living patterns.
A Shelter in Hyperspace is a collaboration between the Amager Social Housing Initiative “Amagerplanen”, the Sønderbro Urban Renewal, and lighting designers Onomato and Diktakrom, created to cast a warm glow over the winter months.
The artists
Onomato is a Danish designer who works with light, geometry, and materials. Onomato draws on an astropoetic mood with harmony and symmetry.
Diktakrom is a Danish company specialized in developing lighting systems. With years of experience in art, culture, and creative events, they create solutions that expand and enhance the way light is experienced.
Thanks to the residents for their contribution and participation.
Aimọilé // Platform 5:55
Artist: Ayodamola Okunseinde
Time: Every day 5:55-6:00 PM
Location: Platform 5:55, Frederiksberg Centret, Falkoner Alle 21, 2000 Frederiksberg
Dates: 31. januar – 22. februar
Every day from 5:55-6:00 PM, Platform 5:55 takes over all the advertising screens at Frederiksberg Centret and presents video art for exactly five minutes.
Platform 5:55 has invited Nigerian-American performance artist Ayodamola Okunseinde to create a new work as part of the Copenhagen Light Festival. Okunseinde presents the video work Aimọilẹ – a five-minute science fiction film that examines the transatlantic slave trade.
The film explores Europe’s role in the slave trade and questions the dominant narrative of the abolition of slavery. It shows how abolition was a calculated economic decision rather than a moral awakening, revealing how this manufactured morality continues to structure contemporary global inequality today.
The film follows the fictional neuro-historian Dr. Zola Umoja, who develops an Algorithm of Atonement to address injustices of the past. Zola triggers the Synoptic Collapse, compressing centuries of financial data into a singular entity known as the Broker. It issues the final accounting: Payment Due, the total future value of all illegitimate profits, accompanied by a single directive to reroute them into the Aimọilẹ Sovereign Fund.
Okunseinde himself appears in the role of Dr. Zola Umoja, wearing a colorful, interactive costume. The work was filmed at, amongst other locations, the former Danish slavetrading post Fort Christiansborg in Ghana. The piece is a poetic and thought-provoking video work that playfully engages with the postcolonial debate in Denmark. Okunseinde’s work is based on his own anthropological research and field studies along the West African coast.
The artist
Ayodamola Okunseinde is a Nigerian-American performance artist based in New York City. He works at the intersection of visual art, speculative design, and interactive costumes, grounded in a decolonial “reclamation” practice. He has exhibited internationally, including at the Shanghai Biennale and the Brooklyn Museum, and is an associate professor at Parsons School of Design as well as a researcher in anthropology at The New School in New York City.
Platform 5:55
Platform 5:55 is a contemporary art initiative founded by artist and curator duo Rebekka Bohse Meyer and Magnus Pind. It is a new video art platform that takes over the LED billboards in Frederiksberg Centret. The platform is inspired by the Midnight Moments program in Times Square, New York City, which presents international video art every night at midnight for five minutes on the Times Square billboards.
Chromatic Playground // Studio Libertineren
Location: Fensmarksgade 38a, 2200
Chromatic Playground transforms Studio Libertineren in Nørrebro into a living, sensory universe of colors and light. Over 80 hand-painted lamps cover the ceiling like a vibrant tapestry, each shade contributing its own mood and rhythm. The room responds to the audience – their voices, presence, and curiosity.
Through interactive voice control, visitors can change colors, moods, and sequences in real time. The dynamic color shifts make the space come alive like a digital painting, where the colors constantly blend into new formations.
The light becomes a shared language, and the installation a place where the boundary between artist, artwork, and audience dissolves. Here you are not a guest – you are a co-creator.
Chromatic Playground is a work about co-creation, presence, and spontaneity. A light installation that does not just illuminate – it listens.
The artist
Behind the installation is Martin Højer Friis, the owner of Studio Libertineren. He is a free thinker working at the intersection of installation, design, and light art. His practice explores the relationship between people and space – and how light can transform our experience of both.
Friis creates works where the audience not only looks at the art but becomes part of it. In his previous installations, including “A Waste of Light” for the Copennhagen Light Festival 2025, play, participation, and sensuality are recurring approaches.
He often works with color, materiality, and shifts in atmosphere as central storytellers. Studio Libertineren functions as both a studio, gallery, and experimental space, and serves as the framework for his investigations into how light can become a shared, living medium.
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Choose Your Own Adventure // Brønshøj Vandtårn
Date: February 13-15 and February 20-22
Time: 5:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Price: Free
Please note: The audio walk is in Danish
Brønshøj Water Tower opens its doors to an interactive audio and light experience in the winter darkness. Dramaturge and producer Niclas Fruergaard collaborates with artist and UX designer Trine Ryskov Albret to create a lively and exciting exhibition that the audience themselves help shape.
Visitors move around the tower wearing headphones and are guided through the column space by interactive audio walks. Lighting designer Carl Asmussen illuminates the column space in a looping sequence of changing moods.
The installation explores selective perception. Our brains interpret and highlight the light our eyes perceive, and two people can stand in the same room and experience it differently. The audience can make choices along the way and influence the narrative.
The same room, the same installation, but vastly different experiences – life is what you make of it.
Digitalt Nordlys // Broens Skøjtebane
In collaboration with the Arctic Institute, Nordatlantens Brygge and Show Produktion
Location: Broens Skøjtebane
Time: January 31 – February 22
5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Greenlandic Trade Square is once again transformed into a universe of light with two unique works that celebrate the North Atlantic. For us, located in such a historic square, it is a great pleasure to create a space where we can share stories from the North Atlantic in new ways. The works are presented in collaboration with the Arctic Institute and Nordatlantens Brygge.
Experience carefully selected photographs from the archive of the Arctic Institute, illuminating Nordatlantens Brygge. It is a visual journey into the Arctic animal world, shaped by life in the extreme landscapes of the North. Each image tells its own story of strength and beauty in the coldest regions of the world.
Arktisk Fauna // Broens Skøjtebane
In collaboration with the Arctic Institute, Nordatlantens Brygge, and Show Produktion
Location: Broens Skøjtebane
Time: January 31 – February 22
5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Greenlandic Trade Square is once again transformed into a universe of light with two unique works celebrating the North Atlantic. For us, situated in such a historic location, it is a great joy to create a space where we can share stories from the North Atlantic in new ways.
Experience carefully selected photographs from the archive at the Arctic Institute, illuminating Nordatlantens Brygge. It is a visual journey into the Arctic wildlife, shaped by life in the extreme landscapes of the north. Each image tells its own story of strength and beauty in the world’s coldest regions.