Mani Nikdel – Denmark

Location: Højbro Plads

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This is a geometric light sculpture composed of an illuminated inner tetrahedron – a four-sided pyramid, enclosing a mirrored form. As viewers move around the work, their perception changes. The light gradually changes, creating reflections that multiply the space and fragment the mirrored images. The work explores geometry, illusion, and self-awareness through the interaction of light, reflection, and proportion.

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The artist

Mani Nikdel is an Iranian light artist based in Denmark. His minimalist light installations explore space and optics through simple geometric forms and visual illusions.

With a background in both art and technology, Nikdel aims to create subtle yet powerful experiences that evoke curiosity and wonder.

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Thanks to

Funds & Sponsors

Nirvana Keyvani Jam & Elion Ebrahimi (IR) // Ungt Lys

Location: Matrikel1, Gammel Strand

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This light installation is composed of suspended fragments of a broken mirror. Each fragment is imperfect in shape, like us, yet still capable of reflecting light to others. Through the inter-reflection of these fragile pieces, much like human societies, a colourful image emerges out of darkness, one that could never exist alone. Viewers can see parts of their own image reflected in the mirror fragments; a reminder that each broken piece carries human presence, and that only together do they form a complete whole.

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About Ungt Lys

Ungt Lys is a group of young members of the Danish Center for Light (DCL), working across various disciplines and sharing a common interest and passion for light design and light art. As part of the non-profit organization DCL, Ungt Lys aims to inform students and young professionals about the opportunities in the world of light.

The group is led by a board that organizes activities for the members of Ungt Lys.

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 FRONT404 – The Netherlands

Location: Vindebrogade

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In this long, interactive light installation, luminous climbing plants spread along the wall of the canal. Triggered by the activity of passersby, new shoots emerge, with light flowing through the plants like sap through leaves. The work makes visible the rhythm of city life and the balance between movement and stillness.

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The artist

FRONT404 is a Dutch artist duo creating interactive installations for public space. Their work uses accessible interaction, humour, and unexpected interventions to engage broad audiences internationally.

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Thanks to

I Light U

Frances Muriel Cosgrove (US), Patryk Kuziemski – (PL), Zacharoula (Zacha) Agoraki – (GR), Gosia Wybieralska – (PL) // Ungt Lys

Location: Marmorbroen

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CONFLUX is a projection-based installation that unfolds ways of interconnection between 4 different scales, Nature, Movement, Society and Cosmos. The work seeks to evoke a feeling of relation and connection to what is around us and to show that even if we feel we are small in the cosmic or global scales, our surroundings are shaped by collective actions of beings that are no different than us.

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About Ungt Lys

Ungt Lys is a group of young members of the Danish Center for Light (DCL), working across various disciplines and sharing a common interest and passion for light design and light art. As part of the non-profit organization DCL, Ungt Lys aims to inform students and young professionals about the opportunities in the world of light.

The group is led by a board that organizes activities for the members of Ungt Lys.

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Thanks to
Funds & Sponsors
Dansk Center for Lys
Københavns Motorbådsklub

Båll & Brand – Denmark

Locations: Tivoli – DanHostel Copenhagen City – Vor Frelser Kirke

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About

In its ninth edition, this light installation of handcrafted laser machines projects a green laser beam across Copenhagen. The beam stretches between Tivoli, Danhostel Copenhagen City, and Vor Frelser Kirke, drawing a temporary line in the urban landscape that activates and connects the city and its architecture in a new constellation. It invites us to look up and explore the city from new perspectives.

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The artist

Båll & Brand is a Danish audiovisual artist collective that creates light installations and scenography. With a site-specific approach, they combine aesthetics, technology, and science, where space, light, and sound come together in immersive experiences.

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Thanks to

Tivoli, Danhostel Copenhagen City & Vor Frelser Kirke

Mihkel Pajuste – Estonia

Location: Danish Architecture Center

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About

This video-based light installation features blue image sequences, slowly looping across the screen, accompanied by an ambient soundscape. In this almost meditative repetition, a magnetic attraction to blue is explored – both the colour and its physical properties, but also its state and emotional resonance. The installation invites slow perception, immersion and presence.

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The artist

Mihkel Pajuste is an Estonian designer and artist, working at the intersection of lighting design, visual communication and spatial art. With experience in both practice and teaching, his work investigates perception, digital processes and the relationship between light, material and space.

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Thanks to

Danish Architecture Center 

Båll & Brand – Denmark

Location: The Tower of Christiansborg Palace

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About

This is a site-specific light installation at Christiansborg, consisting of 22 upward-facing beams of light, placed in a precise, vertical arrangement that emphasizes the tower’s vertical orientation and shifts the room’s perspective. At the same time, the tower is illuminated from within.

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The artist

Båll & Brand is a Danish audiovisual artist collective that creates light installations and scenography. With a site-specific approach, they combine aesthetics, technology, and science, where space, light, and sound come together in immersive experiences.

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 Thanks to

Christiansborg

Mads Vegas – Denmark

Location: Knysten

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About

This upward-reaching light sculpture, consisting of curved aluminum structures and LED tubes that twist around each other, creates an interplay between elements, as if two forces meeting. The work is inspired by the early Børsspir, which until a fire in 2024 was a historic landmark in Copenhagen’s architecture.

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The artist

Mads Vegas is a Danish lighting designer and artist who works with interactive installations and site-specific light works in public spaces. His practice explores how light can transform spaces and communicate emotions in the interplay between technology, nature, and architecture.

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Thanks to

Fonde & Sponsorer

Hans E. Madsen – Denmark

Location: Knasten

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This is a sculptural light work defined by a glowing white neon outline of a boat, drawn clearly against the sky. The simple contour emphasizes form, direction, presence and lightness rather than mass. A possible intention is to evoke thoughts of navigation and passage, using the simplicity of light to connect maritime memory with openness, horizon, and movement.

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The artist

Hans E. Madsen creates site-specific light art that interacts with architecture in public places. With numerous projects for Copenhagen Light Festival and international exhibitions, this artist explores light as a spatial, sensory, and poetic medium that invites the audience into immersive, responsive environments.

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Jacob Tue Larsen – Denmark

Location: Havnegade

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In the city’s light boxes, normally filled with advertisements and clear messages, a quiet counterpoint emerges. Outside the city, blurred landscapes appear without fixed landmarks and without a specific intention. The images point away from the city and invite personal interpretation, reflection, and recognition in an open, sensory space.

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The artist

Jacob Tue Larsen is a Danish visual artist who primarily works with photography in combination with sculpture, installation, and graphic media. His practice is characterized by experimental explorations of materials, media, and existential themes, rooted in the surrounding world.

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Agata Terpińska – Poland

Location: Havnegade

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This is an interactive light object consisting of a reflective disc that rotates when physically activated. Light from an internal source is refracted and reflected, casting shifting colour patterns into the surrounding space. The work emerges through interaction, absorbing our energy and transforming it into movement, light, and colour.

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The artist

Agata Terpińska is a Polish lighting designer working with interactive installations and spatial light environments. With a background in interior architecture and lighting design, her practice explores optical illusion, movement, and the relationship between light, perception, and physical space.

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Thanks to

Funds & Sponsors

Egill Sæbjörnsson – Iceland
Originally commissioned by Therme Art

Location: Nordatlantens Brygge

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Flying Waters projects free-flowing water jets onto building façades, forming shapes that interact with the architecture. Light and water challenge the senses, play with reality and illusion, and invite viewers to reconsider how we perceive everyday spaces and the forms that surround us.

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The artist

Egill Sæbjörnsson is an Icelandic multimedia artist and musician, based in Berlin. He works with light, water, digital media, and installations that challenge perception, engage with the absurd and the animistic, and explore the boundaries between the real and the illusory.

Therme Art is an international cultural initiative working through artistic and interdisciplinary collaborations across art, architecture, and science. Through projects, talks, and community-based initiatives, Therme Art explores the role of culture in wellbeing, with a focus on inclusion, sustainability, and social impact.

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Thanks to

Nordatlantens Brygge

Marcus Lyall – United Kingdom

Location: Toldbodgade

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These are laser projections of simple, animated figures performing small, everyday and unproductive actions. The actions are derived from movements captured with motion capture, which are digitally translated. In contrast to our era of optimisation and productivity, it invites us to see the value and necessity in pause, reflection and actions without a specific purpose.

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The artist

The London-based artist, Marcus Lyall, explores how life experiences are converted into data in a technology-driven world. Their works often collect audience data through interaction. With a parallel career in live performance and music, the artist investigates the psychological dynamics between art, audiences, and large crowds.

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Thanks to

MÆRSK

Calidos – Catalonia, Spain

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About

This is an immersive light installation consisting of vertical, illuminated tubes arranged in a circular structure – a continuous space that one can step into. Inside, sequences of images and light are played, creating an illusion of movement and recalling early cinematic animations. The work invites an exploration of repetition, rhythm, and change, where light and movement transform the spatial experience.

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The artist

Calidos is a Catalan creative studio based in Barcelona, specializing in audiovisual production and interactive light installations. Since the mid-1990s, the studio has realized large-scale projects for festivals, institutions, and public spaces internationally.

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Senja Ruohonen – Denmark

Location: Copenhagen Visitor Service

Opening hours (link)

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Walk inside at Copenhagen Visitor Service, and see a small animated character moving across the walls and screens of the tourist office. Crawling, digging and unfolding light, Nisse explores the festival from within – tracing light as place, story and attraction.

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The artist

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Thanks to

Funds & Sponsors

Copenhagen Visitor Service

Čestmír Suška – Czech Republic // ARTshifters

Location: Maria Church Square

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This is a series of large sculptural forms made from repurposed industrial steel, perforated to allow light to pass through. By day the structures appear heavy and tactile; by night they transform into luminous, transparent forms. The possible intention is to explore transformation, sustainability, and the poetic potential of reused materials through light.

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The artist

Čestmír Suška is a Czech sculptor who works with recycled industrial materials in large, spatial forms. He is part of the collective ARTShifters and in his works engages with the interplay between nature and industry, referencing international contexts and the Czech sculptural tradition.

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Thanks to

Mariakirken

Metro in cooperation with Copenhagen Light Festival

Location: All 17 stations on metro line M3

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Light traces the sky above the city. From each of the 17 stations on the M3 City Circle, spotlights send out signals like small beacons across neighbourhoods. Perhaps you can see the next station glimmering on the horizon. Perhaps someone can see your light from the other side. Beneath the ground, the metro glides rhythmically between neighbourhoods. Above ground, the light marks the next stop and the next change. The light shifts with the weather and is never quite the same. Closer brings us nearer. One stop, and you are in a new neighbourhood, with new people and new impressions. Follow the light to the next station, the next neighbourhood, the next encounter. 

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Thanks to

Metroselskabet

Frederik Skålerud Hougs

Lightspray Visual – Hungary

Location: Hotel Kong Arthur

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This projection work consists of composite, hand-drawn moving images that unfold on the surfaces of architecture, creating a lively dialogue between a visual narrative, the space of the place, and scale. Created with custom-built overhead projectors, the work combines the analogue and mechanical, emphasising light as a physical process shaped by time and human intervention rather than digital automation.

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The artist

Lightspray Visual is a Hungarian artist group creating analogue light art since 2010 using modified overhead projectors. Through kinetic motion, coloured light surfaces, and site-specific visuals, they produce large-scale installations and analogue–digital hybrid shows, developing new techniques showcased at numerous European light festivals.

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Thanks to

Hotel Kong Arthur

Laurenz Theinert – Germany

Location: Nykredit, Nordhavn

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This light installation consists of overlapping fields of coloured light – an optical play where light itself shapes and dissolves space. The work explores the principles of colour perception: When light hits an object, it is partially absorbed while the rest is reflected as colour. As the light intensity gradually changes, the brain perceives it as movement, as if the walls were vibrating.

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The artist

Laurenz Theinert is a German light and media artist who works with photography, spatial light installations and live audiovisual performances. His works explore abstract perception and dematerialisation through specially developed tools, focusing on light as a time-based and compositional medium.

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Thanks to

Nykredit

Forenet Kredit 

Pavla Beranová (CZ) // ARTshifters

Location: Nykredit, Nordhavn

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With six slender masts, this light and sound installation emerges like ships in a harbour. Beams of light are refracted through moving banners, sending colours in all directions and inviting us to lift our gaze towards the sky, while the sound element invites interaction. The composition connects wind, light and human presence in a dynamic and playful experience.

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The artist

Prague-based lighting designer Pavla Beranová works across theatre, architecture, and visual arts. As part of the ARTshifters collective, she develops sustainable light artworks for festivals worldwide. Her practice explores the poetic potential of light through scenography, installations, and innovative cross-disciplinary collaborations.

ARTshifters is a collective of cultural professionals and artists developing sustainable artworks for light festivals worldwide, creating fair opportunities for both artists and production.

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Thanks to

Nykredit

Forenet Kredit

sedemminut – Slovakia

Location: Refshaleøen

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This is a luminous composition of rectangular frames, placed around the area. With its simple, geometric shapes and changing contours, the installation defines and creates space, depending on our movement and distance. The work dissolves the existing landscape and offers us the opportunity to reflect on fragmentation and coherence with alternative lines and structures in the urban landscape.

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The artist

sedemminut is a Slovak light artist from Košice, known for outdoor installations using cold white light. He has created evocative works for light festivals across Europe and contributed to projects such as the European Capital of Culture and White Night Slovakia.

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Thanks to 

Refshaleøens Ejendomsselskab A/S

KerneYdelsen – Denmark

Location: Kofoeds Skole

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This sculptural light installation is constructed around a luminous triangle made of transparent recycled plastic and illuminated from within.
Beneath and around the triangle stand small figures that personify different relationships to enlightenment.

The work examines enlightenment as guidance, overinformation, knowledge, and a spiritual dimension. It invites reflection on knowledge and on light’s ability to include, dazzle, cast long shadows, clarify, and give life force.

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The artists

The installation is created in collaboration between KerneYdelsen and the users of Kofoeds Skole, a place for socially vulnerable people.

Kerneydelsen is a Danish artist duo consisting of Signe Marie Schmidt-Jacobsen and Majken Madsen.
Their collaborative practice combines participatory art, pedagogy, and socially engaged processes.

Kofoeds School has existed since 1928 and is a social institution for people on the margins of society.

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Tokyo Blue – Denmark

Location: Amagerfælled Skole

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As a monumental and glowing industrial landscape, the work emerges in the urban space. Created in collaboration with children of the area, the installation draws connections to the local history and the value of cabbage, as cabbage fields from the 1500s once shaped the region. The work translates stories into a shared luminous project and invites reflection on humanity, time, and place.

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The artist

Tokyo Blue is a Danish artist collective with roots in art and design. The group creates site-specific installations that are based on the space, history, and the context of the place. Their work is characterized by a fascination with light, colors, and sensoriality. ‘Sol over Kål’ was created in collaboration with children and young people from Kulturpiloterne and Skolen på Islands Brygge.

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Thanks to

Statens Kunstfond

Amager Vest Lokaludvalg

Københavns Kommune

Arthur Steijn & co. – Denmark
Creative Development: Frederik Lauenborg

Location: Kaj Munks Vej

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Arcs of light hover above the canal, reflecting on the water, while your facial movements control the animation. Tilt your head, move your eyes and the light follows, changing color and shape. The work explores interaction and the connection between person, light, and surroundings, inviting play and presence.

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The artist

Arthur Steijn is a Dutch-born, Denmark-based artist and associate professor working with interactive installations and digital light. His practice combines artistic research, teaching, and long-term exploration of responsive environments. 

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 Thanks to

Ørestad – Grundejerforeninger og Vandlaug

Eliska Kovacikova – Slovakia

Location: Byparken Ørestad

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A site-specific sculptural light installation constructed from curved, compressed wooden elements forming a dense structure. Light emerges from within, filtering through cracks and surfaces. A possible intention is to explore confinement and protection, using light as a counterpoint to weight and darkness, evoking bodily presence and a longing for openness and transformation.

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The artist

Eliska Kovacikova is a Slovak visual artist who works with sculptural installations in wood, light, and spatial composition. Her practice explores silence, tension, and bodily perception, creating sensory, immersive environments.

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 Thanks to

Ørestad – Grundejerforeninger og Vandlaug

Nicolas Paolozzi / Module – France

Location: Ørestad Syd

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This is a network of illuminated lines stretched through space, forming a three-dimensional web. Paths and intersections define movement and orientation. The possible intention is to visualize connection and interdependence, using light to map relationships between bodies, routes, and the surrounding environment.

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The artist

Nicolas Paolozzi is a French artist-architect and founder of MODULE, producing monumental light and sound installations for public space. His work focuses on modular, reusable structures and immersive environments.

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 Thanks to

Ørestad – Grundejerforeninger og Vandlaug 

Alexander Reichstein (Finland)

Location: Vestre Kirkegård

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In a stream of illuminated human silhouettes, this light and sound installation stretches over several hundred metres. Displaced, on their way to a new, unknown existence, they wander in the dark – the silhouettes are outlines from existing photographs of people fleeing from war. The work invites us to reflect on collective experiences and where we are headed.

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The artist

Alexander Reichstein is a visual artist based in Finland, born in Moscow, who works with sculpture, installation, and light-based works. His many years of practice include children’s art, public works, museums, and international light festivals.

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Thanks to

Ny Carlsbergfondet

Sydhavn Teater

Fællesskabet Bavnehøj

Vestre Kirkegård 

Petri Laakso

Petar Šćulac – Croatia

Location: Vestre Kirkegård

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This is a sculptural light installation where images of metal mesh and hand-processed concrete are illuminated, casting outlines onto the underlying architectural surfaces. The shadows extend the motif with multiple layers and invite reflection on the identity of the place, boundaries and invisible structures, as well as transitions between past and present. The work is part of the EU-supported project IMAGINE PEACE.

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The artist

Peter Šćulac is a Croatian artist who works on combining traditional methods with contemporary materials. His practice explores the invisible structures, both physical and emotional, that shape the relationship between conflict and reconciliation.

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Thanks to

Sydhavn Teater
Fællesskabet Bavnehøj
Vestre Kirkegård