Lichtstadt Feldkirch

Lichtstadt Feldkirch ("City of Light Feldkirch") is a light art festival in Feldkirch in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It was first held in 2018. It is planned that the festival be held every two years.[2]

The old city centre of Feldkirch is the location of the light art festival Lichtstadt Feldkirch
Lichtstadt Feldkirch
StatusActive
GenreLight art festival
FrequencyBi-annually
VenueCity centre of Feldkirch (outdoor)
Location(s)Feldkirch
CountryAustria
Inaugurated2018
Next event2023
Attendance30.000 (2018)[1]
AreaVorarlberg
Websitehttps://www.lichtstadt.at/

The festival

Lichtstadt Feldkirch is a four-day biennial light show in the city of Feldkirch. In the nighttime, ight installations are presented at ten different venues. Many of the projects are created for the respective location.[3] The installations are free and barrier-free accessible.[4]

"As a scene for light art, the urban space offers numerous unexplored possibilities to experience our present through architecture, light and technology, to break viewing habits or to illuminate the past. [...] Artistic development can be made possible and thus different thematic or technically innovative focal points can be set will." – Lichtstadt Association[5]

Asynchronous to the main events, the smaller "Spotlight" events have been taking place since 2020, each of which focuses on an artist or a group of artists.[6][5]

The festival and the "Spotlight" series are organized by the non-profit association "Lichtstadt", which was founded in 2017.[5]

Timeline

2023

The 2021 edition will take place from 4–7 October 2023.[7]

2021

The 2021 edition took place from 6–9 October 2021.[8] The international artists and artist collectives OchoReSotto, Peter Kogler, Brigitte Kowanz, David Reumüller, NEON GOLDEN, artificialOwl and DUNDU realized mappings, installations, projections and interactive works in the second edition.[9]

2020

The 2020 edition of the festival was postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19.[10]

2018

The first edition in 2018 was held to celebrate the 800th anniversary year of the city of Feldkirch. It took place from October 3 to 6, 2018. Ten projects by international artists, e.g. Ólafur Elíasson, transformed the old town into a large open-air museum at nightfall. Installations, sculptures, projections on facades and floor as well as laser projections, mappings and light objects were part of the light art festival.[11]

See also

References
  1. ""Lichtstadt Feldkirch" auf Oktober 2021 verschoben". Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  2. "Lichtstadt Feldkirch | Feldkirch, Vorarlberg". www.feldkirch.travel. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  3. "„Lichtstadt": Kunst und Licht in Feldkirch". vorarlberg.orf.at (in German). 2018-10-02. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  4. Tourismus, Bodensee Vorarlberg. "Lichtstadt Feldkirch: Das Festival für Kunst mit Licht in Vorarlberg". Bodensee Vorarlberg Tourismus (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  5. "Über uns - Lichtstadt Feldkirch". Lichtstadt (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  6. red, vorarlberg ORF at (2020-11-10). "Ein Erlebnis der Lichter in Feldkirch". vorarlberg.ORF.at - Vorarlberg Heute (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  7. "Lichtstadt Feldkirch 2021 mit positiver Bilanz | gsi news". gsi-news.at (in German). 2021-10-15. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  8. "Festival 2021 - Lichtstadt Feldkirch". Lichtstadt (in German). Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  9. "Lichtstadt Feldkirch 2021". Stadt Feldkirch (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  10. "Anfang Oktober erstrahlt wieder die ganze Stadt Feldkirch: Das Lichtkunstfestival Feldkirch 2021 wird wieder spektakulär". MeinBezirk.at (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-25.
  11. "Lichtstadt Feldkirch - das neue Lichtkunstfestival im Oktober". Urlaub in Vorarlberg (in German). Retrieved 2020-09-07.
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