ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Photonic Empathy is a touch sensitive interactive art piece that invites the audience to influence the visual feel, look, color and depth of the installation. What at first glance seems like an empty space frame fills up with many faces of beauty. 

Photonic Empathy explores the geometry of three volumetric cuboid rectangles using two different lighting mechanics. LED strips on the long ribs of the cuboid add volume to each separate space frame using indirect light. By using individually addressable LED strips, different parts of the geometry can be dynamically accentuated at a rapid pace. This creates a disorienting effect as if the geometry of the structure is unstable. The closed faces that are situated at the end of each cuboid are fitted with infinity mirror panels, capturing and directing the photons within each cuboid.

If the photons were the observer, this sculpture would be completely enclosed. Let’s try to empathize with photons and imagine their universe. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Lumus Instruments is a creative lighting studio from the Netherlands set out to design products that enable and stimulate the creation of sustainable art. Their main activities are developing, designing and engineering modular light installations and control systems.

THANKS TO
Sponsored by BLOX

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
JAM is a sweet salute from the Danish summer during the cold and dark month of February. An intense taste of ripe berries from the summer harvest.

Taking inspiration from the deep colour palette of berry marmalades, nuances of red, violet and orange, artist group Tokyo Blue use striking splashes of colour to transform the rigid materials of Lille Langebro bridge into a warm and sensual universe of berries.

This piece can be experienced from many different angles in the city, and it adds a fleeting new layer to the story of the bridge, as well as the perception of it as a work of architecture in a dynamic and active city like Copenhagen. The many little highlights from the multitude of light sources on the bridge resemble berries on a straw on a mild evening in late summer, reflecting beautifully on the surface of the water. JAM is sensual, concentrated, a tasty feast for the eyes. Have a bite!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Tokyo Blue was created in 2011 and consists of lighting and interior designer Silla Findstrøm Herbst, lighting and textile designer Katrin Barrie Larsen, art historian Helle Frøjk Knudsen and visual artist and engineer Astrid Espenhain, all of whom work with lighting and space in their professional lives. 

THANKS TO
GOBO

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
During the last few years, Green Beam has become a symbol of the Copenhagen Light Festival, and the green laser beam will blaze across the Copenhagen sky for the fifth year in a row. With its iconic green hue and 3.7 kilometre length, Green Beam unites the city. This year, the beam will originate from Tivoli, pass through the tower of Christiansborg and end at B&W Halls at Refshaleøen.

Green Beam will shine from February 4 until February 27 from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. and again from 06 a.m. to 08 a.m.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Båll & Brand consists of Martin Ersted and David Ruben Karpantscho. They work with large-scale light and sound installations and experiment with many different types of materials and light sources. In addition to many notable lightworks in Denmark, the group have also exhibited internationally in places such as Iceland, Vilnius and most recently on the façade The National Maritime Museum (Het Scheepvaartmuseum) in Amsterdam during the Amsterdam Light Festival edition #8. The duo have contributed several pieces to Copenhagen Light Festival over the years. 

THANKS TO
Tivoli
Refshaleøen
Christiansborg Slot
Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Light has no mass, polystyrene consists of around 98% air, and the word “what” has no content. Meanwhile the world is lit by fluorescent tubes, and polystyrene has been scattered all over the oceans. Hvad (What) is a confusing piece that makes you wonder: What is “what”, and why? The sculpture looks indistinct in daylight, but reveals its true colours in the dark.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
An artist duo consisting of Robert Garde and Garcia Pauwels. They also participated in Copenhagen Light Festival 2020 with their installation “Permutations Of Empathy (“I may not always love you”)”

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Black and White is a light sculpture that is directly related to the architecture of the Black Diamond (a modern extension of the Royal Library in Copenhagen). Graphical cones of light slice through the dark, creating a visual echo of the style of the building. The light cones have been placed close to the building, where they create a continuation of its architecture and accentuate the vertical and horizontal lines of its façade.

B&W is a tribute to the Black Diamond and an exploration of light, space and architecture, utilizing light as a sculptural element in the urban space.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Båll & Brand consists of Martin Ersted and David Ruben Karpantscho. They work with large-scale light and sound installations and experiment with many different types of materials and light sources. In addition to many notable lightworks in Denmark, the group have also exhibited internationally in places such as Iceland, Vilnius and most recently on the façade The National Maritime Museum (Het Scheepvaartmuseum) in Amsterdam during the Amsterdam Light Festival edition #8. The duo have contributed several pieces to Copenhagen Light Festival over the years. 

THANKS TO
The installation has been realized in cooporation with support from The Black Diamond, Dansk Blindesamfund, STARK Gentræ, snedkerservice.dk and BANG MARCUSSEN ARKITEKTUR. 

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Loop is a dynamic light and sound installation, consisting of 32 pillars arranged in a circle, which can be experienced at a distance and all the way up close. The interplay between light and sound forms a synthesis, which also interacts with the surroundings. When you experience this piece from a distance, you will be able to sense the sonic rhythm and tonality. But if you get up close and personal with Loop, you will encounter a dominating soundscape enhanced the light show.

This piece challenges the senses of the audience, piquing their curiosity about the connection between sound and light and the way we perceive our surroundings. Here, the interplay between light and sound forms a dynamic whole in constant flux.

Loop is a continuation of Søren Lyngsø Knudsen’s earlier installation pieces with multi-channel sound and audio reactive visuals, and it is a composition for 32-channel audio systems in itself.

ABOUT ARTIST
Søren Lyngsø Knudsen (born 1983) got his degree in Electronic Music from The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus in 2009.

THANKS TO
Statens Kunstfond

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Woven Light is a playful conversation between weaving, light, culture, and space. The compositions are created in nearly real-time from various locations in the artist’s home city of San Francisco. Made of only sunlight reflected onto woven materials, the imagery is sculptural, prismatic, amorphous, and dynamic. California sunlight beamed to Denmark’s night. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Michelle Yi Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist and self-taught weaver, born in Seoul, South Korea and based in San Francisco. She has exhibited at the Textile Center in Iceland; Ovartaci Museum in Denmark; Nationale in Portland, OR; Round Weather in Oakland, CA; the Berkeley Art Center, CA; Grove Collective in London, UK; and Venetia Initiatives in New York. Her practice of light weaving was featured as part of the Anni Albers exhibit at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT. And she was a contributing artist at Black Mountain College, Ashville, NC. Yi Martin’s work with the artist collective ESG was featured on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in Dumbo, Brooklyn, as part of the Light Year installations in New York (2021). Her current solo exhibition, In Medias Res, is on view at Municipal Bonds Gallery in San Francisco. Future projects include a permanent light installation at Pier 70 in San Francisco (2023). Michelle Yi Martin is represented by Municipal Bonds.

THANKS TO
Mads Nørgaard

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
We humans are surrounded by signals, constantly streaming past us and through our bodies. In this digital age, we are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Our time is a mishmash of virtual and factual relations and events, and humans are connected to an ever-increasing degree by an invisible network of communication tools. The work Comms illustrates the invisible stream of signals using iconic satellite dishes, which make us aware that we are subjected to a constant barrage of radiation on a daily basis.

The satellite dishes in the piece represent an information central keeping track of everyone and everything, and it evokes the idea of a military surveillance installation, creating a feeling of being unable to escape the clutches of constant supervision. Comms illuminates the invisible, as it were, and shows the digital connection between us all across time and space.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Hans E. Madsen (born 1958 in Denmark) holds a degree from Aarhus Art Academy in 1977-1981 and Art Academy of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1980-1982.  For many years, his artistic work has manifested itself as a number of notable works in the public sphere, all using light as a medium. Almost all of them were created for specific locations, often inviting the audience to interact with them. 

Frederik Dahl Hougs is a lighting designer from The Danish National School of Performing Arts. 

THANKS TO
Supported by Danish Arts Foundation Production Committee

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
A wealth of green plants and flowers in vivid colours spout up on the front of the building at Havnegade 29 in the 3D mapping piece Trust Nature.

This work tells a visual story about how nature would bloom and make the world more beautiful, if only humanity gave it the necessary space and tranquillity. Its goal is to awaken an emotional response within the observer that could turn thought into action, highlighting the need for us to make a bigger effort for nature’s sake. Trust in nature!

Trust Nature was created using projection mapping, a technique that uses 3D mapping to chart the surface of a building using 3D/spatial recognition, which can create very lifelike effects on the physical elements that the light projection is projected onto.

This piece is an inclusive, progressive light piece, whose ever-changing colours, luminosities, atmospheres and movements are highly compelling. The work is place alongside Copenhagen Harbour, where you can enjoy it from several different angles, both up close and from the other side of the harbour.

Design company UMAGE and VFX collective Hackstage combine a love for the environment with custom technology that challenges the senses and dissolve perceptual limits. The result is a visual ode to nature itself.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
UMAGE is a Danish design firm combining aesthetics and functionality with exquisite artisanship and a big focus on creating environmentally friendly solutions. When we design lamps and furniture that can last a lifetime, we allow nature to bloom and regain its power.

Hackstage is an audio-visual research and development laboratory specializing in visual art and technical solutions for stage and performance art. Hackstage consists of a broad network of artists a multitude of different disciplines, including engineers, philosophers, A/V technicians, game designers and computer scientists. 

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Green energy, climate-friendly energy, sustainable energy, and renewable energy – terms that most people are becoming very familiar with. 

In Light of Today is an interactive installation that visualizes how much renewable energy there is in Denmark right now. 

The installation is created by the design office Kollision in collaboration with Clever and Volkswagen City Studio and is designed in the hope that if we can band together and find a way to a greener future. Clever and Volkswagen aim to accelerate the switch to e-mobility and hope to motivate and inspire people to participate in the green transition. 

And seen in the light of today – what do you want to do tomorrow? 

To interact with the piece, scan the QR code next to it or go to today.kollision.dk

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The electric car is an important choice when it comes to the green transition. And that choice has an even greater impact when the power the electric car runs on is actually green.   

Volkswagen
With the strategy “Way to Zero”, Volkswagen AG are determined to reach a goal of being completely climate-neutral by 2050. Electric mobility will be upscaled and the production, including supply chains and the operation of electric cars will be made climate-neutral to make an impact on the environment. In addition, there will be a consistent recycling of high-voltage batteries from end-of-life electric cars.   

Clever
Clever is Denmark’s leading charging operator. With built-in intelligent charging, Clever’s charging boxes automatically charge the car at night when there is less demand for electricity and often an excess of renewable power in the grid.  

And now Clever also supplies electricity to both electric cars and homes with the electricity company Clever Power. Clever Power also ensure that more renewable energy comes to Denmark, by constructing a new solar park.   

Kollision
The design office Kollision combines architecture, art and novel technologies with a focus on the users’ experience. They design physical spaces and exhibitions based on their custom developed digital platforms, which controls dynamic light and interactive communication. Kollision works in all scales from the small interactive light installation over national visitors’ centres to integrated experiences in buildings and urban design.

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Like the phoenix of legend, Phenix is a piece in the shape of a giant bird. In an interplay between light and sound, this work transforms itself into several different animal species on the brink of extinction. Phenix is sending a message about hope, life after death and the possibility of rising from the ashes.

11 metres long, 15 metres wide and 5 metres tall, Phenix is truly a large-scale light sculpture. The animated lighting of the installation creates dynamic shapes and colour transitions, and the whole thing is accompanied by an audio-visual soundscape consisting of birdsong and atmospheric ambient sounds.  Phenix invites all festival guests in under its wing, where they can enjoy a spectacular experience in light and sound. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Julien Menzel is a French artist with a background in architecture. Since 2012, he has been creating light-based works and interactive installations designed to tickle the senses of spectators and invite them to lose themselves in the experience of light. 

THANKS TO
Samsung
By & Havn
ATP

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Borders is a light sculpture based on barriers as territorial limits and obstacles. Fences and barriers are usually tools that separate, divide and create enclosed spaces. But Borders removes the fence from its normal function and places it as a shining standalone object in the middle of the urban space. This makes the fence a central actor in a dialogue between context and observer.

The work consists of an aluminium frame covered in LED light tubes, arranged in a repeating structure resembling a simple line drawing of a fence. The shape is open, so the observer is always free to move through the fence. Borders contains of a number of conflicting symbols, leaving the interpretation to the observer. Who is inside, who is outside? It is an open conversation between artwork, observer and location.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Studio Jakob Kvist works on location specific works of a temporary and permanent nature, with light as the central element. Studio Jakob Kvist works in the intersection between art, design and architecture, creating works that initiate a visual conversation with their specific context, making the physical space and visitors into core elements in the experience of the work. Studio Jakob Kvist has previously participated with art pieces in Copenhagen Light Festival. These include Dichroic Sphere (2021), Gates of Diversity (2021), Chromatic City (2020), The Pillar (2020), Chromatic Fields (2019) and Inside/Out (2018)

THANKS TO
Karberghus

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
The 3D mapping piece Åndedrag (Breath) breathes new life into the Sydbank building on Kongens Nytorv. People often say that a metropolis has a life force and a pulse of its own. A pulse is rhythmic and aggressive, while breathing is circular and without beginning or end.  Using animations reminiscent of cyclic breathing, the work temporarily makes the building come alive and breathe along with the city.

The 3D animation of this piece was created based on a 3D scan of the façade of the building, making it possible to project the graphics onto the building in a way that perfectly matches its structure, details and ornamentation.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Morten Just graduated from Design School Kolding in 2006, where he studied at the Institute of Interactive and Industrial Design. During the last 15 years, he has worked with video and animation as a set design element in the theatre, exhibitions, movies and much more. His work includes the video set design for the ballet “The Snow Queen” in Tivoli and several video pieces for the Nick Cave exhibition “Stranger than Kindness” in The Black Diamond.

THANKS TO
Sponsored by Sydbank

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
My Liquid Reach – Or in the Murk examines our relationship with all the water that surrounds us and passes through us. Water is much more than a neutral, clear, liquid element, devoid of taste and scent. Water has a rich history, and it is just as much of an idea as it is a substance. As our perspective shifts from the close sphere of our body to our waterways, the oceans and the ground water, we see the water and the body transform into an abstract, symbiotic matter.

The piece consists of computer generated and hand-drawn animations, projected by two full spectrum RGB colour lasers. The laser animations in the artwork consist of figurations, where diagrams, such as the hydrological cycle, become a body of water, and small microplastic-like particles turn into stars in the sky. My Liquid Reach is a show about reach and a poetic declaration of love to our interaction with the water on our planet (in equilibrium).

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kirke Meng graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2015. Through text, performance and lighting installations, Meng works with juxtaposition of visual and linguistic worlds. Her hand-drawn laser animations could most recently be experienced projected at Roskilde City Hall in the summer of 2021.

THANKS TO
Refshaleøen

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
The work questions the use of artificial light today. Do we really use too much artificial light and can we really get more out of less light? The work focuses on the dark and how it can be better utilized, as well as how it affects us as human beings.

With the use of 50 LED lamps which are connected to each other and controlled in a light sequence, a dim illumination of the lake is created. The lighting draws the audience’s attention towards the lake and the dark water, as well as the magic that the dark evening sky creates. Existing lighting along Peblinge Lake is dimmed and dimmed so that the plant and Peblinge Lake can stand out

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Carlo Volf, MAA, is a Danish architect. He works in an intensive affective department, NID, as a researcher at the Psychiatric Center Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital and is also a co-founder of Daylight Academy. His work focuses largely on daylight, lighting and ventilation in the built environment, where his work is rooted in the health aspects of architecture. He has worked at several of the new hospitals, including Nyt Herlev Hospital, Psykiatrisk Center Ballerup and Ny Psykiatri Bispebjerg in Denmark. Most recently, he won the Danish Design Award 2021 in the category “Better learning” with the new, demand-driven natural ventilation system NOTECH, which has been developed for schools.

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Bavnehøj Områdefornyelse, governed by Copenhagen Municipality, presents a location-specific light art piece by the drawing office Byen Sover, found near the historic Østre Kapel in the middle of Vestre Cemetery. A large chandelier, measuring 3.5 metres in diameter, transforms the square in front of the chapel into a warm and wonderful communal space. A compelling and ceremonial space for individual contemplation, which also serves as a gathering area for cemetery guests, even during the most piercingly cold days.

Visitors can admire the ornamented shades of the chandelier, which turn the chapel inside out by mirroring spatial fantasies and pieces of the cultural and theatrical activities that can be enjoyed inside the former chapel. The light from the chandelier reflects the surroundings, creating a link between nature and the chapel. This piece is conceived as an alluring and mysterious destination for passing cyclists and runners in the cemetery, but also as a warm and inviting space for relaxation and losing yourself in thought for a while.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The drawing office Byen Sover consists of architects Jens Kamp and Karin Bech. Their work covers a wide field from exhibition architecture to a working with light in the shape of lamps and lighting installations, often in the public space. They are driven by a fascination with the darkness of the city and the way in which stories can help change our perception of it. Their work is centred around the interplay between city and nature, fiction and reality.

THANKS TO
Områdefornyelse Bavnehøj

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
10 concave circles, each with a diameter of about 1 metre, cast in phosphorescent materials with images of different plants, create a luminous tale of symbiotic processes in nature. The work is based on natural processes, inspired by the symbiosis between different living organisms, such as how trees cooperate with the underground mycorrhizal network of mycelia, the filaments of fungi. The trees receive phosphor in exchange for sugar and fat. Mycelia are tiny subterranean mushroom threads, capable of extracting phosphor from the soil and transporting it to the trees.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Anna Rosa Hiort-Lorenzen is a clothing designer from the Danish Design School, whose work has gravitated towards textile-based art installations and now also light installations. She was awarded a special grant from The Danish Arts Foundation for her work in phosphorescent colours in concrete.

THANKS TO
Områdefornyelse Bavnehøj

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
When darkness becomes a rare guest, biodiversity is challenged. Over the past 100 years, the amount of artificial light has multiplied. Our houses, cars, parks, streetlights and light commercials all contribute to an eternal lightning of the globe. “BUGS – The Day of the Dead” focuses on the effects of electric light and light pollution for biodiversity and many insects. Two thirds of the planet’s animals are – unlike humans – nocturnal, and light pollution is an underestimated factor in the massive loss of biodiversity and species that is happening right now.

BUGS – THE DAY OF THE DEAD consists of 8 insect lanterns, constructed of recycled parachutes and sails. The lanterns are attached to the existing lighting in the Remise Park and thus do not use extra power or add new light to the site. Instead, the work draws attention to how darkness is a prerequisite for our experience of light. At the same time, the work celebrates the life and diversity of insects with inspiration from the Mexican festival The Day of the Dead, which celebrates the dead – in this case the dead insects.

The city’s children have helped to draw wild insects for the work, which can be experienced in Remiseparken on Amager during the light festival.

During the light festival, Miljøpunkt Østerbro and Miljøpunkt Amager will arrange an open insect workshop for children in Remiseparken.

THE TEAM
Artist and concept developer: Åsa Frankenberg
Design and construction: Josephine Bourghardt and Eva Wendelboe
Project management, Circadian Cooperation: Malene Saxkilde
Producer: Miljøpunkt Østerbro and Miljøpunkt Amager, Sara Jörn and Nina Maria Klok

THANKS TO
Supported by Områdefornyelsen Sundby
Urbanplanen / Partnerskabet

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
When the term “wood wide web” was invented, many learned that trees communicate with each other and share nourishment on a large scale. A healthy tree can share its resources with a sick one, and a tree can warn others if it is under attack. It’s very reminiscent of ourselves. Dendrolux uses the mediating forces that live in a beautiful and majestic tree at Sundby Cemetery, and invites all living creatures to participate in the conversation.

The installation involves 14 custom-made black fluorescent tubes of between 1.5 m and 2 m. The tubes have a built-in responsive programming, which enables them to respond to external forces.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Svartljus is an artist collective with members from many areas. The collaboration with nature gives them constant motivation and inspiration, both by virtue of the mathematical patterns that give shape to their designs and the environments they are in. With Dendrolux, they explore the network between trees and creatures through light and play. And while the relationship with modern technology is getting closer, they are striving to get closer to the oldest that exists.

Dendrolux was created by Svartljus members Jonas Johansson, Olle Bjerkås and Per-Olov Jernberg.

THANKS TO
Sundby Områdefornyelse

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Lys-tagfat challenges children and childish souls in speed and coordination in a captive game with the light.
Tap the light tank that lights up and see if you can catch the next one before time runs out, or get help from others so you can win the game together.

The work builds a desire to create togetherness and coziness across age, language and culture in a playful lighting installation set up in Filipsparken.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Christian Tesa is a self-taught lighting designer with a great interest in laser light and mechanics and originally has a degree in agriculture and machinery.

THANKS TO
Områdefornyelse Sundby

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
The installation is inspired by communication and consists of two sculptures, each placed on their respective bridge. The sculptures are created from 8 illuminated aluminium curves each, which form an organically shaped bouquet at a height of 2 metres. When observed at a distance, the sculptures will appear as a complete whole due to the interaction between the light animations, which creates a dialogue between them. The work is an abstraction of language and code, visualized thought light. Festival guests can also experience the pieces up close and pass through them as they are crossing the bridges.

The computer-controlled lighting on the piece creates a compelling, meditative atmosphere, enriched by the beautiful reflections on the water in the channels. Communicator creates space for thought and admiration while playing with a mixture of symmetry, organic shapes and playful light elements in the architectural and natural surroundings of Ørestad.

The title—Communicator—is a reference to a communication device from the sci-fi TV series Star Trek, but also the name of a line of 90s era mobile phones for business from Nokia. Both suggest the idea of human communication, both before, during and after the current epidemic.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
SIIKU—named after the Greenlandic name for ice—are a Danish/Greenlandic artist group consisting of Rasmus Nielsen (born 1984 in Lyngby, Denmark) and David H. Péronard (born 1981 in Nuuk, Greenland). They have a digital and analogue background in the artist world respectively, beginning their collaboration as SIIKU in 2017. They focus on using their art to create solidarity and empowerment in this challenging time of climate crisis and rising global inequality. SIIKU’s works are created based on the ideas in the SIIKU Manifest, dealing with the contrast between materials and their symbolic unification.

THANKS TO
Grundejerforeningen Ørestad City
Ørestad Vandlaug
KLP Ejendomme

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
In the hidden garden from 1929 at Københavns Højskoleforening, the work “Fortællende træer” (Storytelling Trees) invites to you enjoy a tale of community, nature and song, staged with light and sound. The great trees in the garden have witnessed countless human lives and events pass by through the years.

At each glowing tree, visitors can hear an audio story from the area, and a route with garden torches will bind the storytelling trees together. When standing in the garden, you find yourself suspended inside a time warp. This work is a homage to a different time, but in particular to the natural surroundings and the people, who have contributed to making Højskoleforeningen an incredibly special place in Copenhagen and the suburb of Vanløse throughout the ages.

This piece was created for the large garden of Højskoleforeningen, which can also be experienced from the path along Damhus Lake.

This is the first time that Sally Rud and Laura Bogstad have collaborated on a piece that unifies their passion for plants, light and magical stories. 

We thank Københavns Højskoleforening, Vanløse Lokaludvalg and BYRUMSKOLE for their support on this project.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sally Rud is a visual artist, architect and designer, who works with spatial design, sensuous installations and visual poetry the conflux between space, sound, light and materials. She is especially interested in creating atmospheric spaces. Holistic experiences that tickle our senses and leave room for contemplation, intimacy and thought. 

Laura Bogstad graduated as a landscape architect from the University of Copenhagen, and she works as a freelance production designer and urban designer. She is interested in creating urban experiences, in which discovery, nature and the imagination give people a desire to use the city space in new ways. 

THANKS TO
Københavns Højskoleforening, Vanløse Lokaludvalg, BYRUMSKOLE

(Foto of the installation : Ture Andersen)

ABOUT THE LIGHTWORK
Interconnection is an immersive art installation about the story of one of the greatest survivors on the planet: The fungi kingdom.

The artwork takes visitors into an evolutionary journey that describes the crucial role that these fascinating organisms have on Earth; like keeping our forests alive, offering medical properties and developing an underground network, so-called “wood wide web”, in which the surrounding species connect to create a harmonious symbiotic relationship.

Interconnection is a completely handcrafted installation created by Sara Ki Noguera Plans (artist & lighting designer ) and Jonathan Ki Lindhult (artist & film director). Its design emphasizes the beauty of bioluminescent mushrooms and invites visitors to explore the idea of using “Bioluminescence” as an innovative and sustainable light source that could be used in the future to illuminate parks of our cities. It also touches the subject of light pollution by explaining how fireflies, which are also bioluminescent, are facing extinction due to light pollution, pesticides and habitat loss.

This artwork counts with; 3 large sculpture mushrooms (2 meters, 1.5 meters and 1.2 meters) ; 600 small mushrooms that grow from the ground, trees and logs; 300 units of magical grass and 150 fireflies that creates an imaginary entrance door into the fungi kingdom. Moreover, it includes an interactive area where people can make real mushrooms glow by using a flashlight.

While walking through this wonderland, visitors are accompanied wtih experimental music created by the sound artist Anton Helmersson. Additionally, they have the option to scan a QR-code to hear the story behind the Fungi Kingdom and the fireflies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-BRtLu0NkE

THANKS TO
The Nordic Kultur Kontakt, RobLight A/S, RebelLight, LUMINO, Berrtil och Britt Svenssons Stiftelse, Otto och Charlotte mannheimer fond, Anne Zychalak Stolten, Barbara Læssøe Stephensen, Omar Gemeaux and Fremstillinger

The exhibition runs 03.12.21 – 04.09.22

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Step into a world of light, colour, and gigantic installations in Light & Space, when CC for the first time in Europe brings together a rich array of art-world luminaries in an expansive 5,000 m2 exhibition on the American art movement known as Light and Space.

Explore historical artworks by James Turrell, Doug Wheeler, Helen Pashgian, Robert Irwin, Larry Bell, Bruce Nauman, Mary Corse, and many others – alongside works by contemporary European artists inspired by the pioneering art movement, among them Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, and Jeppe Hein.

The singular exhibition, CC’s biggest to date, sprawls across all five exhibition halls and ends in CC studio’s interactive laboratory where you can experiment with light, colour, and space and build with transparent LEGO and light.

OPENING HOURS
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11.00 – 18.00
Thursday: 11.00 – 21.00
Friday: 11.00 – 18.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 18.00
Sunday: 11.00 – 18.00

ABOUT THE POP-UP
Copenhagen Voices is a contemporary vision of Copenhagen in a poetic installation, told through the use of light, sound and images drawn by hand. An ode to Copenhagen, full of love for the city. The raw materials of the installation are the voices, sounds and visual impression of Copenhagen. The artists have collected sounds and drawings during conversations with citizens of Copenhagen: on the streets, in their homes, through individual conversations and in purpose-designed conversation salons.

From a distance, you will see drawings of people, actions, objects and thoughts projected onto the wall in The Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center. As you move closer to the drawings, you will begin to hear sounds: the many voices of Copenhageners, their names and different dialects, ambient sounds of the city, the ever-present bicycles, the sleek Metro, the characteristic bells of City Hall, that great shawarma joint at Nørrebro, the lively dogs of Christiania, the click-clack of high heels in Hellerup, the slurping of fancy oysters at Østerbro. Voices telling stories of their Copenhagen, their affiliations, their daily lives, their dreams and desires, their anxieties. This installation converts the urban space into a reflection on being human in Copenhagen. An examination of the identity of the place and the identity of the people through art.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jakob Fälling (born 1972) is an illustrator, writer and MSc in Social Science. He makes report illustrations and hand-drawn storytelling in many formats. Instagram: jakob.falling, www.fälling.dk

Bobby Salomon Hess (born 1969) is an audio artist, sound mixer and narrative consultant. He works with audio storytelling and co-creation in movies, installation art and organization development. filmtone.dk

Ole Samsøe is a lighting and interaction designer and owner of Alien Workshop. Ole Samsøe has more than 20 years of experience as a consultant for museums and businesses in Denmark and abroad.

Bobby Salomon Hess, Jakob Fälling and Ole Samsøe collaborate on other similar documentation projects, in which collected audio clips and drawings interact in projections in the urban space. Their most recent collaboration is “Reflections on Corona 2020”, a portrait of the first year of the Covid crisis.

THANKS TO
Nikolaj Kunsthal

ABOUT THE POP-UP
The artwork Light of Christ is inspired by different shapes found in nature. It invites everyone to the experience of the sacred, independently of one’s religious affiliation, thereby expressing what is universally human; a sense of community, reconciliation and cohesion. It spreads hope in a difficult time, and invites contemplation and reflection. The artwork is specifically designed and placed in a way that encircles the statue of the angel in Vor Frue Kirke and unfolds like light flowing from the hands of the statue of Christ. It can be read as the wings of the angel, a picture of the waters separating from the story of Moses and the Red Sea, or as a picture of the Holy Spirit, often symbolized by a white dove of peace flying towards the sky.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Light of Christ is designed by architect Mikkel Nielsen, who is creating the light installation in collaboration with photographer and light installations artist Nicolas Andreou Odyssea. The artwork is part of Mikkel Nielsen’s research on sustainable 3D-printing of architecture, and it is an integral part of these studies, which aim to increase the sustainability of the construction industry through technological innovation.

Transport: Bus 2A and 10 go right to the door

ABOUT THE POP-UP WORK
In line with the building’s minimalist architecture, the lighting of the façade is deliberately limited to emphasize the cylindrical shape of the façade – partly by letting chains of light extend from the roof to the terrain along buttresses, partly by mimicking the circular floor plan. the chains that overall enclose the facade and highlight the cylindrical shape for the viewer regardless of point of view.

The light underlines how the building towers up to the highest point in Copenhagen (approx. 24 m), like a raw, massive, simple and luminous, 35 meter high sculpture in the dark. The building insists on being identical with its function: to serve as a solid and safe construction for the water tank that was to ensure sufficient water pressure for a growing metropolis in the 1930s.

Inside, 20 rectangular columns rise with ring and radial beams and carry the high-lying water tank. With the lighting in the room, changeable light and shadow effects are created between the columns, which visually gives the room an almost sacred expression, acoustically enhanced by the room’s long reverberation time, which also creates exciting settings for changing concerts.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ART GROUP
FBV is a group of voluntary citizens in Brønshøj who have formed an association with the aim of creating the framework for light and sound art with Brønshøj Water Tower as the core. In addition, the purpose is to test the limits of what the building can be used for and thus to revitalize the water tower as a culture house.

The water tower was built by architect Ib Lunding in 1928.

ABOUT THE POP-UP
Come and experience how light and the colors of light can stage and draw our surroundings in new ways when
Copenhagen Light festival and students from the NEXT education put the Glyptoteket in play under the leadership of Lighting Designer Jesper Kongshaug.

THANKS TO
Glyptoteket

ABOUT THE POP-UP
Sparkling light curtains in warm white, consisting of 4,800 LEDs.

The installation is made as partially horizontal and vertical: There are 6 horizontal curtains which form a tunnel under a scaffolding and 8 (16) vertical curtains.

Design, production, installation: Christmas Ministry
Products used: MK Illumination Drape Lite 300
Client: Secrets of Hysken (Gadeforening)