Kaleider

💫 Thank you, Norwich! For coming out yesterday to the international premiere of Kaleider’s Requiem. 💫Showing again tonight and tomorrow (May 16th and 17th) at @nnfest . Designed and performed by the same team that created Kaleider’s Arch 🧊🔥, Requiem is a contemporary requiem for life on this planet. A theatre performance combining large-scale kinetic installation and an original musical score. A song of labour, voice, beauty, and hope. It has been an incredible journey to get here. We couldn’t have done this without help. Kaleider’s Requiem is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Requiem R&D was supported by: @oerolterschelling , the Netherlands; @provinciaaldomeindommelhof , Belgium; Tokyo University of Science and Prof. Jin Akiyama’s Mathematical Experience Plaza, Tokyo, funded by Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Requiem was also supported by our incredible Citizen Commissioners: individual donors who help us to make and bring artwork into the world. Find out more on our website, or follow the link in our bio (Support Us). Film by the ever amazing @fluxxfilms 🔥🙏

💫 Introducing: Kaleider’s Requiem. 💫 A contemporary requiem for our planet, premiering at Norfolk & Norwich Festival @nnfest May 15-17. Designed and performed by the same team that created Kaleider’s Arch 🧊🔥, Requiem is a theatre performance combining large-scale kinetic installation and an original musical score. A song of labour, voice, beauty, and hope. 🌈 We can't wait to share it with you. And the good news is, you don't have to wait until the premiere to be a part of Requiem. Our Citizen Commissioners campaign to support the tour is now OPEN! Citizen Commissioners are individual donors who support us to make and bring artwork into the world. It’s a form of fundraising that isn’t top-down, that anyone can be part of and have their name on something. And when loads of people come together to make it happen, it really has an impact. Not only does it help us get over the line financially; your trust and hope make all the difference. If you want to support us, please consider making a one-off donation of £20 (or more!) to become a Citizen Commissioner of Requiem. To say thank you, we will add your name or the name of your loved one to the artwork's credits – forever. 👉Go to shop.kaleider.com/products/become-a-citizen-commissioner or follow the link in our bio. 👉Watch and learn more about Requiem on our website: kaleider.com/portfolio/requiem/

While we’re on the topic of light art: we’re delighted to introduce Breathe, a brand new commission by @rhsbridgewater Glow. 🌈💫 👉Swipe for a timelapse in the second slide! Breathe is a gentle, kinetic installation of floating light sculptures. Articulated circles of light float on the water, changing colour while expanding and contracting, creating a breathing dialogue between them. This is the first version of this project, and we’ve got loads of exciting ideas we want to develop. We’d love to make more sculptures, play with the illumination, and maybe even explore underwater versions. We’ve very much enjoyed exploring the relationship between light and water, and nature and technology, in Breathe. If this sounds interesting to you - please get in touch! Big thanks to RHS and to everyone who saw and loved Breathe last month at Glow. 🙏🙌

Hello again Finland! 🇫🇮 We’re so happy to share our biggest installation yet of Twist & Shine at this year’s @luxhelsinki ! For the first time, we are presenting 100 sculptures for the public to twist, build, and play together. Thank you Lux for the vision of this incredible commission. And thank you Helsinki for your joy, laughter, and incredible creativity! We don’t post on socials very often these days, but this film was too good not to share. Huge thanks to @rakhun.productions , who stopped by on opening night and was kind enough to send us this amazing footage and edit. 💫🙏 Video description: In a snowy park in Finland surrounded by buildings, hundreds of people play with glowing, rainbow coloured geometric sculptures. Children and adults twist the prisms, build with them, and slide them around on the snow. The film cuts between closeups and drone footage of the audience, silhouetted against the colourful light reflected on the snow. #kaleider #lightart

🔥🧊 New York! After a long quiet start to the year, this weekend we're back to perform Arch in the USA. This Saturday, August 30th and Sunday 31st, we'll be at the fantastic @ps21chatham Center for Contemporary Performance, New York as part of COMMONGROUND festival. Then next weekend, on Saturday, September 6th and Sunday 7th, Arch will be in The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City (wow!) as part of @dtefestival – including a collaboration with NYC's longstanding @mastervoicesny choir. It's been a while since we last performed Arch on top of Mt. Philo with @flynncenter . Bringing it back to the USA now feels poignant and relevant, and we can't wait to share it with audiences again. See you there! 👉 You might have noticed that we have mostly stopped using social media in 2025. Limited capacity meant we had to make choices about where to put our energy, and we feel that we don't really want to feed this monster anymore – or get eaten up by it. But we would love to keep in touch with you. If you are interested in news from Kaleider, please sign up for our newsletter or visit our website, which has the most up to date information about our work (links in bio). Image description: Kaleider performs Arch on top of Mt. Philo, at sunset. Dozens of people are seated in a grassy clearing surrounded by trees, looking on as four singers and two builders surround an almost completed arch made of concrete and ice. Behind them, a fiery sun sets behind a mountain range, and reflects off a vast, calm lake.

It’s time to Twist & Shine again. 🌈✨Our playful, interactive light sculptures are back from their epic journey to Finland, and headed to 2 upcoming U.K. gigs: @glosbright from Feb 13-19 and @birminghamlightfestival from Feb 19-22. See you soon! #kaleider #lightart

We're back in the building for 2025. Looking for a beautiful and quirky space to host your events in this year? 🥂 Kaleider's Studio 1 in Exeter might be the perfect place for you. 🏡 Workshops, talks, events – even a wedding. Interested? Write to [email protected] or go to kaleider.com for more information. Image description: A wide shot of Studio 1 in Kaleider's building. It is a large, long room with three big windows at the end, facing a small green garden. Inside, there are a few round tables decorated with flower arrangements, and chairs along the sides.

⭐ Presenting: ⭐ Kaleider’s Arch, A Behind the Scenes Documentary In 2024, we premiered Arch in an international tour to 8 contexts across 7 countries. Throughout, we often found ourselves saying that making and touring Arch mirrored the work itself – it was equally challenging, beautiful, devastating, and hopeful. To end the year, we're sharing a film that tells that story. 👉👉👉 Follow the link in our bio, stories, or go to /portfolio/arch-documentary/ Watching time: 19:32 min Captions: English Our most heartfelt thanks to incredible filmmaker Barney Witts @fluxxfilms – for joining us on tour with enthusiasm, thoughtfulness, and care. To @insituplatform for the support. To everyone who was a part of Arch – we couldn't have done this without you. 🙏 💙❄️ Happy holidays from all of us, and we'll see you in 2025.

👉👉👉 Last chance to order from our shop for holiday gifts! 🌲 To receive your package before Christmas, please order by midnight on Sunday, December 15th. ❄️ After that, our small team will be away on winter leave. Later orders will ship from January 6th. 🎁🌈 PLUS, to celebrate the holidays and spread the love, we are offering 🌟FREE🌟 UK shipping when you buy 4 or more products. You can choose any combination of Absurdables, Fish Mobile kits, and Delightful Little Things to gift to your loved ones this season. / Image descriptions: 1: An open box of Absurdable, a card game. It has a bright pink lid that says Absurdable in big, fun letters, and it has several funny illustrations on it in bright yellow: an alien holding a clock, a policeman in a breakfast bowl, a moon in a shopping cart, a hamster on Mars, and a narwhal on a unicycle. 2: A grid of 16 Absurdable cards, each one with words written on it and a little illustration. They read: Daydreams, dry socks, ballet, birdsong, elephants, escalators, burnt toast, duvets, most useful in a zombie apocalypse, most impressive to an alien, most catastrophic in a swimming pool, best on a Thursday, most inconvenient in a public toilet, yummiest on toast, worst for humanity, disastrous in a time machine. 3: A product shot of Kaleider's Delightful Little Things against a white background. It shows a cardboard envelope package, a sheet of instructions printed on both sides, a set of five flat cardboard cutouts before assembling, and an assembled set. They are printed with a cream, black, and blue rose design. 4: A Fish Mobile kit product shot, which consists of: a colourful printed sheet of card with instructions and cutting guides, four wires, thread, and a strip of small round stickers.

🌲🎁 Our shop is open for the holiday season! To celebrate, we have a special offer: order now for 🌟FREE🌟 UK shipping when you buy 4 or more products. 😍 / 🦄 We've had an incredible time this year developing Absurdable, our hilarious, fast-paced, mind-bending card game. We're so stoked you are loving it as much as we are! 🌈 Plus, we've restocked our gorgeous Delightful Little Things and mini Fish Mobile kits - tiny versions of Kaleider's big playful artworks, for you to make and create at home. 👉👉👉 LAST ORDERS: To receive your package before Christmas, please order by Sunday, December 15th. After that, our small team will be away on winter leave, so later orders will ship after January 6th. Image descriptions: 1: An open box of Absurdable, a card game, sitting on a table covered in cards. The box has a bright pink lid that says Absurdable in big, fun letters, and it has several funny illustrations on it. The cards are also illustrated and read things like: scariest to find in a supermarket, chocolate, disastrous in a time machine, Team B, etc. 2: A little cardboard toy made of five interconnected prisms sitting on a table. It is printed in bright bands of blue, orange and green ink. 3: Outdoors in a green and sunny park. A small child is manipulating a giant colourful sculpture. It is several metres long and made out of cardboard. 4: Indoors. A little fish mobile made out of colourful printed cardboard, hung on string and wire. Each fish is about 5 cm long. 5: Outdoors on a sunny day, a huge crane holds a giant fish mobile about 50 metres in the air. Five fish hang from it, each one about 8 metres long. People stroll in the park underneath it, while others stop to look up at the mobile.

🌈💫 Our Delightful Little Things are back in stock! They are mini, build-it-yourself versions of our giant twist sculptures, Let's Twist and Twist & Shine. 👉 Link in bio, or go to shop.kaleider.com We have 4 different surface designs – all reproductions of original linocut and lithograph prints. 🌹 💥 And while you are in the shop - do check out Absurdable and Fish Mobile kits for more mini-artwork gifts! Image descriptions: 1. A product shot of Kaleider's Delightful Little Things against a white background. It shows a cardboard envelope package, a sheet of instructions printed on both sides, a set of five flat cardboard cutouts before assembling, and an assembled set. 2. A hold holding an assembled Delightful Little thing. It consists of five triangular prisms made out of cardboard, interconnected to each other. It is red with a doodle linocut design. 3. A Fish Mobile kit, which consists of: a colourful printed sheet of card with instructions and cutting guides, four wires, thread, and a trip of small round stickers. 4. A box game. It has a bright pink lid that says Absurdable in big, fun letters, and it has several funny illustrations on it. 5. An open box of Absurdable sitting on a table covered in cards. The cards are illustrated and read things like: daydreams, birdsong, scariest to find in a supermarket, elephants, most useful in a zombie apocalypse, duvets, etc.

We've been a bit quiet on socials these days. ❄️ The team is spread out across Europe and UK for a last flurry of activity this year. First up, some photos from Hämeenlinna, Finland, where we are presenting the international premiere of Twist & Shine. 🌟 Not only that: for the first time ever, we have scaled up to a 20+ sculpture installation – in the centre of Hämeenlinna Market Square. 😍 We are loving the creativity, energy, and ambition of the shapes that people are building – across all age ranges! 🌈 @valoilmiofestivaali is a light Art Festival that celebrates the creativity of children and young people, which we think is genius. Thank you for having us! Image descriptions: 1: Outdoors, on a snowy night in Finland. A small chid in a snow suit plays with Twist and Shine, a glowing sculpture made of colourful, interconnected prisms that glow from the inside. 2: A wide angle view of Twist and Shine in Hämeenlinna Market Square in the city centre. There are about 20 sculptures of different sizes, and dozens of people playing with them, surrounded by buildings. 3: Two adults and a child are twisting a particularly large sculpture, working together by holding different parts of it while moving it into shape. 4: A child approaches a structure composed of two large sculptures stacked on top of each other, creating a colourful, geometric wall. The lights are reflected in the white snow underneath them, and more glowing sculptures are visible in the background.