🔥 COPENHAGEN LIGHT FESTIVAL 2025 HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN! 🔥
💡 Green Beam VII cuts through the night like pure energy, connecting Copenhagen from east to west. A single, unbroken beam marks the start of the festival – and you can almost feel the light vibrate in the air! ✨
📍 Look up, find your perfect view, and let the festival begin!
@cinemateket@frbkommune@tivolicph@refshaleoen@bllbrnd
#chpligtfest
From the archives, 2018.
A still photo of one of our early large-scale animated laser works — The Light at Roskilde Cathedral (UNESCO World Heritage).
A fragile, electric portal carved into the night — somewhere between signal and memory.
Accompanied by a beautifully eerie soundscape by @martinyammoller
A huge thank you to the wonderful local couple that gave us full access to their private home - and a room above their bedroom for several late evenings and long nights 💚
And thanks to @msjekelnothyde for making it happen!
May 4th. A moment for light.
Last year, we illuminated Christiansborg Castle to mark the 80th anniversary of Denmark’s liberation — the entire facade as one unified gesture. A contemporary tribute to the tradition of lighting candles in the windows.
More than 160 lamps. and 80 of them as candles in the windows — one for each year of freedom.
From the parliamentary chamber, the iconic tower and out through windows in the whole building.
Created in close collaboration with the Danish Parliament. Freedom - more important than ever.
#LightAsMemory
#NeverForget
#BLLBRND
Light of the Night ✨
#9 Green Beam
📍 Tivoli — Danhostel CPH City — Vor Frelsers Kirke
En skarp, grøn laser skærer gennem natten og markerer, at Copenhagen Light Festival er i gang. Fra Tivoli, med retningsskift ved Danhostel Copenhagen City og slutpunkt ved Vor Frelsers Kirke, tegner Green Beam igen i år en klar, uhindret linje, der forbinder København.
Skabt af den danske kunstnerduo Båll & Brand, som forener lys, lyd og teknologi i immersive oplevelser 💚
Curtain Call II på forsiden af @berlingske 💚 - og som @holgerster gør det, så også en opfordring herfra til at trodse vinterkulden.
Ville dog også gerne slå et slag for at bevæge sig lidt længere ud af komfort-zonen, end Berlingskes anmelder. Både Refshaleøen, Vestre Kirkegård og Frederiksberg har også fine installationer med under årets @cphlightfest 🌨️❄️🔦Fremtiden er lys!
We call on museums, curators, municipalities, and public institutions to commit to a minimum of 25% climate-related art in their programming.
Not as a theme week.
Not as a side note.
But as a structural responsibility.
Because climate change is not a future topic.
It is the condition we are already living in.
#25PercentForClimate
#curatingtheclimatecrisis
We say it once again.
During Køge Kyndelmisse, Legacy of Melt cast its light onto the water tower in Køge.
Not as an explanation.
Not as a warning with clear answers.
But as a reminder that the world is in motion.
New research now points to up to a 70% risk of an AMOC collapse under a high-emissions scenario — and 25% even under a low-emissions scenario.
Something we, and many others, have spoken about for years.
Back then, it was often dismissed.
Today, the picture has changed.
And if the AMOC weakens or collapses,
then it is not rising sea levels that Denmark and Northern Europe primarily face —
but significant cooling.
A climate moving toward something that resembles an ice age.
This is not only about sea level rise.
It is about ocean currents.
Temperatures.
Food systems.
Migration.
Unpredictability.
Perhaps it is time we — as societies — stop asking only how high the water will rise,
and start asking how resilient we are,
when the world changes faster than we can control.
The IPCC has now also placed ocean circulation at the center of its upcoming reports.
Knowledge shifts. The world shifts.
Which is why it is more important than ever that art and culture help keep the space open —
to share the latest research,
to feel its consequences,
and to imagine how we continue living through change.
Art cannot stop the transformation.
But it can hold attention.
#legacyofmelt #køgekyndelmisse #køge
✨ Lys over Christiansborg ✨
Under Copenhagen Light Festival indgår Christiansborgs Slotstårn i en stedsspecifik lysinstallation skabt af kunstnerkollektivet Båll & Brand.
22 himmelvendte lyskegler følger tårnets arkitektur og fremhæver dets højde og historiske betydning, mens tårnet samtidig lyser indefra som et ekko af bygningens lange historie.
🗓 Den 30. januar – 22. februar
⏰ Kl. 06.00–08.00 og 17.00–22.00
(åbningsdag 30. januar kl. 17.00–22.00)
@christiansborgslot@cphlightfest@bllbrnd
📷 Ólafur Gestsson
Sneak peak!
Tomorrow Green Beam will mark the opening of @cphlightfest
In its nine edition, handcrafted laser machines projects a green laser beam across Copenhagen. The beam stretches between Tivoli, Danhostel Copenhagen City, and Vor Frelser Kirke, drawing a temporary line in the urban landscape that activates and connects the city and its architecture in a new constellation. It invites us to look up and explore the city from new perspectives.
BONUS INFO:
The stretch from Danhostel to Tivoli measures exactly 532 meters - a homage to the classic green laser light, emitting coherent, phase-locked light at a wavelength of 532 nanometers 💚
We have developed a sonic–visual alphabet for Sonic Glyphs, now entering the final stages of installation and calibration.
Created for the @lydbroendene_frb at Bent Fabricius-Bjerres Plads as part of Copenhagen Light Festival.
32 underground resonance wells are activated as one collective instrument — where light is inscribed into sound.
The work features a 16-channel composition by Robotic Folk.
Supported by Frederiksbergfonden and Copenhagen Light Festival.
Opening soon.
@cphlightfest@lydbroendene_frb@roboticfolk@frederiksberg_fonden
En del af vores projekter er vokset ud af København.
Af byrum, vand, mørke og mennesker.
De seneste år har Per Henriksen og @outofsync.artinfocus fulgt vores arbejde med kameraet – særligt nogle af de københavner-orienterede projekter.
Hans blik er i første omgang blevet til en lille dokumentar:
København – svøbt i lys.
Filmen har premiere i aften onsdag d. 21. januar på TV 2 Kosmopol kl 19.55 og vises herefter løbende frem mod åbningen af Copenhagen Light Festival. Den kan også findes online her:
https://www.tv2kosmopol.dk/vi-anbefaler/10/koebenhavn-svoebt-i-lys
Vi glæder os til at se resultatet og håber, I vil kigge med.
Today marks 35 years since January 13, 1991 — a defining night in Lithuania’s peaceful struggle for freedom. After Lithuania declared its independence the year before, Soviet forces moved to suppress that independence. Thousands of unarmed civilians stood to protect key sites like the Vilnius TV Tower. During the violent confrontation, 14 people were killed and hundreds were injured — events now remembered as the January Events, a powerful symbol of courage, unity, and the cost of freedom.
There was also widespread resistance and mobilization in Kaunas and other cities, where people, like in Vilnius, took to the streets in defense of justice and freedom — an act of solidarity that links past and present.
In a world once again marked by geopolitical tension, remembering these events is especially poignant.
We feel honored that Båll & Brand, together with Danish light artist Martin Ersted, created the lighting installation for the premiere of “Liūdno vėjo alėjoje” in Kaunas. Composed by Raimundas Martinkėnas, the piece is a musical dedication to the defenders of freedom — a work that both honors the past and speaks to our shared humanity.
The premiere took place yesterday at the historic Christ’s Resurrection Basilica in Kaunas, where the light installation formed a quiet, atmospheric layer within the performance — a space for remembrance, reflection, and collective presence.
Organised by @kaunosantaka
Supported by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture
#DefendersOfFreedom #january13 #rememberandreflect
