Now in its 5th year, Lighting Culture Biennale will take place from April 11th to 16th alongside the world's leading Light+Building trade fair in Frankfurt RheinMain. Around 150 light events are being prepared by a combination of leading artists, designers, performance and visual artists, VJs & DJs, architects and engineers with the topic for Luminale 2010 being “Light + Sound, Light + Media, Light + E-Motion”
Highlights of the festival include;
Light+Media installation in the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History, in the immediate vicinity of the trade fair grounds
‘Stadtlichtung' (City Light Glade) in the botanical gardens
Palmengarten, a joint project between the Palmengarten and the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design
the ‘Luces' exhibition – Light Art from Italy in the Archaeological Museum
the illumination of the main Frankfurt railway station
the ‘Hive' project near the Alte Oper concert hall
‘Light Sketches' near the Literaturhaus
‘Light.Anamorphoses' at the Hauptwache
the PlusEnergieHaus at Rathenauplatz
the Pavillon by designer Mario Nanni at Ro‚à ö√ºmarkt
the interactive light installation ‘Heavy-Medium-Light'
by Kehres & Hungerer at the Kunstverein Familie Montez art gallery
Numerous guided tours on sustainable building (Klimatours) and thematic city tours reveal the Luminale nights. Boat tours through the illuminated river Main area (Eiserner Steg) are also part of the programme as well as a varied symposium and lecture series.
For more information, please visit; www.luminale.de
