Copenhagen Light Festival 2024

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Copenhagen Light Festival opened tonight and continues through until the 25 February.

There are 79 light works that have been set up in streets, squares and parks across the city and seven events that include an opening concert and a family run at night with lights. The works vary enormously in form from laser displays through floodlighting to sculptures in light and many of the installations include sound.

Details of locations and, where relevant, times are set out in the online programme but, In general, lights will be switched on at 5pm.

This year, for the first time, there will be guided walks but, if you want to explore independently, there is an app for the festival that can be downloaded and that includes an interactive map with information about each installation and about the artists.

Copenhagen Light Festival - programme

 

The Wave - Ofelia Plads

Du som er i Himlene - Højbro Plads
Vivid Verve - Jorcks Passage
PiXLEarth - Knasten, Havnegade 14
Bron, Broen, Bridge - Knippelsbro

Copenhagen Light Festival .... "light in the Winter darkness"

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A Dozen Sun by Maj D og HagbArt
on the board walk at Skuespilhuset / The National Theatre with the view across the harbour to the Opera House
and yes … that is a pair of legs
the installation is made from salvaged plastic and there is a low entrance so you can stand inside

 

Copenhagen Light Festival opened this evening and there are installations across the city.

There are interactive installations; buildings have art work projected on them; major monuments are lit up with strong colours; there are laser shows with light projected across Copenhagen and many of the installations have music or sound.

The city has a marked policy to keep control of street lighting and tends to use low-level lighting on steps or pavements for safe illumination where necessary so, generally, and unlike so many cities and towns, there is a little pollution from harsh or glaring lights …. basically street lighting is carefully designed and subtle …. so the month of the Light Festival introduces some real drama.

The festival continues through to the 27 February.
Maps and information can be found on posters near the installations and on the festival internet site and there is also an app ‘Copenhagen Light Festival - Within 10 Minutes’.

Copenhagen Light Festival
Festival Map 2022

click on any image to open all of them in a slide show

KØBENHAVNEON
Thomas Lewin and Stangdennis
EOS/NYX
Knippelsbro - brobuerne

INTERACTIVE TRAMPOLINES
Cong Liu, Hubert Kurkiexicz, Agata Ostroowska

PHENIX
Julien Menzel

ORAKLET
Marie Nørgaard Nielsen

NEUTRINO
Markus Anders Art & Circus Lumineszenz

TRUST NATURE
Umage x Hackstage

 

Copenhagen Light Festival

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For the Light Festival, there are 45 light installations at locations around the city and these vary in scale.

Aurora Sky picks out the facade of one of the large buildings on Rådhuspladsen - the square in front of city hall - in blue and turquoise to compete with the other neon signs of the huge square whereas at Stormbroen - at the south-west corner of the Christiansborg canal - patterns like those in the infamous lava lamps of the 1960s flow through the arches of the bridge while the normal traffic and night life of the city pass across the bridge, apparently oblivious to the light show below. The bright, sharp-green line by Båll & Brand cuts right across the city while the thin elegant fronds of Rest by Group 3 in an open courtyard alongside one of the office buildings of Nordea on Christianshavn are just waist high and change from red to blue as people approach.

photographs of a number of the installations

the festival continues through until 23 February
and details of all the light works with maps and information about related events can be found on the official festival site

Copenhagen Light Festival 2020

 

The Wave returns to Ofelia Plads

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The annual Copenhagen Light Festival opens officially on Saturday 1 February with 37 major installations that have been set up on squares and streets and across the facades of buildings around the city.

The Wave - a popular light installation by the art collective Vertigo - has returned to Ofelia Plads and was already attracting a crowd this evening.

It's a series of triangular frames that run down the pier on the north side of the national theatre to form a tunnel 80 metres long. Richly-coloured light pulsates or ripples down the length and, as people move through the tunnel, they are surrounded by a mesmerising sound track with five choral works composed by Louise Alenius and performed by singers from the Opera House.


the festival continues at outdoor venues around the city until 23 February 2020
maps and information can be found on the festival site
Copenhagen Light Festival 2020