Luminous Collaborations
Luminous 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.
Himmelsk Lys // DR Vocal Ensemble
As part of the Copenhagen Light Festival 2026, the DR Vocal Ensemble will once again illuminate the beautiful space in the Marble Church with music that explores sunlight, moonlight, starlight, the Northern Lights, and the heavenly light of eternity.
Together with the clear sound of the choir’s voices, composer and keyboard player Christoffer Møller creates atmospheric electronic soundscapes, and spectacular lighting design adds new dimensions to the Marble Church’s large, stylish church interior.
Public Diary // Gårdhaven, Amager Centret
Location: The courtyard of Amager Centre, at Amagerbro Metro Square
Period: January 30 – February 22, from 17:00 – 22:00
Free to experience
Meet the light artists behind the work on January 30 from 17:00 – 18:00
When winter darkness falls, Amager Centre lights up and invites the whole city to Amager’s coziest courtyard. Here you can experience ‘Public Diary’ – a living and interactive light installation where words and light merge, and where you help write the city’s shared history during the Copenhagen Light Festival. ‘Public Diary’ is created by the young lighting design students Bita Shahrarbi, Magnus Kalf Hansen, and Zara Sheidaei in collaboration with Ungt Lys and the lighting company Hooft.
As a visitor, you become an active part of the work when you pause and share a word or thought on the illuminated pages of the public diary. The light installation changes in tune with the life of the city, and each sentence contributes to a collective story that grows day by day, reflecting the city’s moods and moments.
In the Courtyard, there are plenty of shared experiences to enjoy and lots of great dining options – from juicy burgers to Asian comfort food and the island’s new street food – either to stay or to go for your trip to town.
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: 30. 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 Admission
Please note: The audio walk is in Danish
For Copenhagen Light Festival 2026, Brønshøj Vandtårn opens its doors to Choose Your Own Adventure – an interactive audiowalk and light experience that invites the audience on a sensory journey through sound, light and choice. The work is created by Niclas Fruergaard and Trine Albret and takes place in the water tower’s monumental concrete cathedral.
Dramaturg and producer Niclas Fruergaard is also behind the two previous years’ exhibitions in the water tower during the light festival – Singing in the Rain (2024) and Drømmenat (2025). This year, he has teamed up with co-producer Trine Albret and lighting designer Jon Lehmann, and together they invite the audience into an interactive audiowalk where architecture, storytelling and technology merge. The sound design is created by Regarlis.
With headphones on, the audience moves freely around the water tower’s atmospheric columned space and chooses for themselves which audio story they want to follow. Small choices along the way shape the experience in vastly different directions – from meditative immersion to adventure, mystery and enigmatic crime. At the same time, Jon Lehmann’s sensual lighting design transforms the space again and again. The same space – but never the same experience. Because we always choose what we give our attention to.
During the exhibition, we also present two interactive live concerts with the legendary dungeon synth band Legends of Dwarg – a cult band (literally) that mixes sword-and-sorcery aesthetics, nostalgic Gameboy sounds and vivid storytelling with a twinkle in the eye.
The concerts have a separate entrance fee (100 DKK) and tickets can be purchased here:
Tickets February 19
Tickets February 21
Credits
The Brønshøj Water Tower Association
BRØK
Brønshøj-Husum Local Committee
Copenhagen Municipality
Rolespillslauget
Kasper Fruergaard Nissen
Daniel Søgaard Jensen
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.
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.
Det Indre Lys - Art Exhibition // Jespersen Tryk & Art Room
Period: January 30 – February 22, 2026
Opening hours
Weekdays 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Evenings on Thursdays: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
February 9–15 (winter break): 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Welcome inside at Jespersen Tryk, to a journey under the bridge to the exhibition ‘Det Indre Lys’ (‘The Inner Light’). This exhibition is an experience of light on many levels: The light that surrounds us. The light we experience in art, and the light that arises from within – in ourselves. ‘Det indre Lys’ explores how light, energy, and consciousness shape our perception of ourselves, our surroundings, the safe spaces, and the encounter with art in various forms.
Art Room Move through the corridors at Jespersen Tryk and Art Room along Langebro, and at the end of Christiansborggade right by BLOX. Experience an exhibition in unique surroundings where art and production merge. This new gallery has been created to provide both established and up-and-coming artists a space to unfold. Here, seven artists are presented, each with their unique expression and choice of materials, but with light as a common theme.
The works invite both a visual and sensory experience. The exhibition aims to slow down the pace. It creates a space where light not only illuminates but influences. Where the works are not just seen but encountered. Where the visual, the sensory, and the energetic intertwine into a unified experience.
As you move through the exhibition, you are encouraged to turn your attention inward. What is happening in your body, your thoughts, your feelings? The light works change, move, reflect – and at the same time remind us that we ourselves are in motion.
Meet the artists
Sara Mathilde Østers, LIVSVAERKER (Liv Packness), Elisabeth Bergsøe, Else Friis, Sand Kirk, Julie Stokholm, and Lise-Lotte Elley.
Address
Jespersen Tryk and Art Room, HC. Andersens Boulevard 51, at the end of Christiansborggade by BLOX.
Parking is possible at BLOX.
Lys i Mørket // Christiania
Can be experienced from 30 January to 22 February, with staff present on Fridays from 16:30–19:00 and Sundays from 18:30–20:00.
Location: Fredspladsen, Christiania
What gives you hope?
In these dark times, this installation invites you to respond to this almost existential question using UV markers inside a UV-lit container in Pusher Street. You can choose simply to write on the wall and leave, or you may enter into conversation with one of the creators of the installation about this big question (during staffed opening hours).
The artists
Naty is a former boxer from Colombia and now works as an engineer. She also loves meeting people and having deep conversations about faith, hope and love.
Leah is a local artist, best known for her exhibition My Beloved Addict, inspired by her experience as a relative of someone with a substance dependency.
Christianshavn Church is located behind the Opera House and seeks to be a light in the darkness for those who feel they do not fit into a traditional parish church.
VINGESUS - Light art at Kastelsmøllen
7 February, 6.00–9.30 pm
Location: Kastelsmøllen, Kongens Bastion
As part of the Copenhagen Light Festival, you can experience light art at Kastelsmøllen – Vingesus by Tokyo Blue. A sensory evening experience where contemporary art meets history.
For centuries, windmills have been iconic elements of the Danish landscape, serving as landmarks and symbols of humanity’s relationship with nature.
Vingesus is an audiovisual video projection that, through light, sound and movement, unfolds the cultural and historical significance of the windmill. The work sheds light on Kastelsmøllen as a gathering place at a time when the relationship between humans and nature was undergoing change.
Program
Meet the artists from Tokyo Blue
Vingesus is shown on a loop and lasts 8 minutes
Hot chocolate will be served
Free admission
Kastelsmøllen, Kongens Bastion
See you in Kastellet
The project is supported by Indre By Local Committee, the Danish Arts Foundation – Visual Arts Council, and Kastellets Møllelaug.
It is not possible to enter Kastelsmøllen.
A la Dina’s anekdoter // Blikstille
Blikstille, Dorte Persson
Location: Bournonville Passage 3
At the heart of every fairy tale lies a truth waiting to be rediscovered. With the collection A lá Dina’s Anecdotes, Blikstille presents sustainable artworks that invite a new perspective on the world.
The title refers to Aladdin and the magic lamp, but A lá Dina points to a feminine energy based on intuition, care, and connectedness rather than power and exploitation. The lamp is not seen as a tool of control, but as a source of light. When light meets the glass, a magical exchange occurs, giving new life to what has been forgotten.
Today’s antagonist is overconsumption, which treats nature as a raw material. Creating beauty from what has been discarded may seem naive, but it may also be necessary. Research shows that aesthetics and sensory experience teach us to perceive the world as interconnected.
A lá Dina’s Anecdotes demonstrates how discarded materials can become stories of hope and of a future in which we dare to let the light show the way.
The Artist
Dorte Persson has been an artist her entire life, first as a dancer and choreographer, and since 2000 as a light artist, with exhibitions at venues including Charlottenborg, Kunsthal Nikolaj, and Brandts Klædefabrik.
See more at blikstille.dk