Llum BCN is an annual
light art festival held in
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ...
, Spain. It is celebrated since 2012 every February in Barcelona's neighborhood
Poblenou. A selection of outstanding international creators, along with the emerging talent of local art and design artists, feature a series of immersive light installations and shows blurring boundaries between art, science and technology, and showcasing the best of the new creative talent and technology.
Concept
''Llum BCN'', ''Light Barcelona'' in English, takes place in the Poblenou neighborhood, starting at the
Design Museum of Barcelona
The Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (Catalan, English: "Barcelona Design Museum"), is a center for Barcelona's Institute of Culture, which works to promote better understanding and good use of the design world, acting as a museum and laboratory. It ...
at
Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes. The installations are spread across the neighborhood and are visible from nightfall until midnight.
Large historic buildings, old factory chimneys and industrial plants, but also the modern
Torre Glòries are transformed into works of art by large-scale projections and audio-visual displays turning the Poblenou neighborhood into a unique world of expressive light and imagery. Many of the festival's light displays include the use of the latest technology, such as virtual reality and
AI.
Artists
Llum BCN has featured key artists, such as
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance. Lozano-Hemmer lives and works in Montreal and Madrid.
Biography
Rafael Lozan ...
,
Julio Le Parc
Julio Le Parc (born September 23, 1928) is an Argentina-born artist who focuses on both modern op art and kinetic art. Le Parc attended the School of Fine Arts in Argentina. A founding member of Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel (GRAV) and awa ...
,
Luke Jerram,
Ulf Langheinrich
Ulf Langheinrich (born 1960 Wolfen, Germany) is a visual artist and composer.
His work is mainly concerned with non-narrative environments and performances focusing on a specific approach to time, space and body. Since 2016 he is the Artistic Dire ...
,
United Visual Artists,
Kurt Hentschlager,
Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen (born 1974) is an American artist, geographer, and author whose work tackles mass surveillance and data collection.
In 2016, Paglen won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and he has also won The Cultural Award from th ...
and Catalonia's Antoni Arola as well as local schools of art, design, illumination, and architecture.
Llum BCN aims to light up Barcelona cityscape
Retrieved 2022-03-02.
Gallery
File:005 Llum BCN, projecció a la font de Neptú, plaça de la Mercè.JPG, Llum BCN 2015
File:Mapping a Casa Milà (Pedrera) el febrer de 2016.JPG, Llum BCN 2016
File:51 Ajuntament de Barcelona, pl. Sant Jaume, projeccions a la façana, Llum BCN.jpg, Llum BCN 2017
File:Llum BCN Poblenou 20180218 202900(0).jpg, Llum BCN 2018
File:Llum Barcelona I tu, què posaries sota el focus? 13.jpg, Llum BCN 2019
File:Festival lluminic Poblenou.jpg, Llum BCN 2020: Julio Le Parc, Metamorfosis
File:LlumBCN2021 Agorythm.jpg, Llum BCN 2021: Onionlab, Agorythm
File:Llum BCN 2022 Limbo.jpg, Llum BCN 2022: Toni Arola, Limbo
References
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External links
Official website
Light festivals
Culture in Barcelona
El Poblenou