Unbelievable, what Oliver Blum has done with his camera. From many Luminale projects his photos are the best. The photos are sorted according to the locations in the FrankfurtRheinMain region. Here the archive. If you want to use the images for own publications, please contact directly to Oliver Blum. He offers very fair conditions.

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Who has realized the best light concepts in 2007/2008 and where? We search for projects and their developers, artists, organizers. Help to create a world atlas of light.

Light is one of the building materials of the 21-st century. And we want to know who has the new ideas. Here the keywords we search exemplary solutions for :

Frankfurt/M., Vienna. These days the ECB got the permission to build the new headquarter in Frankfurt/Main. The architects are Coop Himmelb(l)au from Vienna. During the Luminale 08 Casa Magica has realized the architectural projections “Main Embankment” - a prelude for one of most famous construction areas in Europe for the next years. More>

Wiesbaden. “Heaven over Hessen” is the title of the 3-part work of Vollrad Kutscher (Luminale 04, 06) for the Hessian Landtag. The installation images another example of the works in the public space and for a new manner of the light portraits in the art work of Kutscher. Plenary hall back wall, lobby and back wall are content and linked formally with each other, photo, (glass) of painting and computerized LED technology are combined. More>

How to participate in the Luminale? The ground rules in a nutshell:
• lighting manufacturers, planners and designers, artists and instituts of culture can register their Luminale projects with the project office Luminale.
• The closing date for registration is the 24th October 2009.
• The project must coincide with the Light+Building trade fair, which runs from the 11th to the 16th April 2010; it must be accessible to the public and make some contribution to lighting culture.
• No right to insist upon the inclusion of a project in the Luminale programme exists.
• Fill in this registration form. We take up contact with you and discuss it. Maybe we can help with the mediation of rooms or sponsorships. Therefor we need a conceptpaper of the idea.

In 1791 Johann Wolfgang Goethe has written experimental instructions which he published together with a collection of small playing cards – the contributions to the optics. By a prism user can look at Goethes boards and recognize how and why colors originate and interfere. Goethe’s color studies fascinates till this day: artists, architects, designers and all anthrosophisticated people who deal with light and color. The box brought out to the Frankfurt Book Fair contains all texts and materials which are necessary to understand Goethe’s color studies really. Instructions only german.
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Berlin. President Horst Köhler has honored the Luminale project Light cocoon as a “place in the land of the ideas”. The light cocoon was built by students of FH Frankfurt (Prof. Wolfgang Rang) for the Luminale in 2006. More>

Oberwesel / Vienna. From Liebfrauenkirche/Oberwesel to the Stephansdom in Vienna (30.5.2008). The documentation of the Luminale project you find here. The website of Stefan Knor offers a lot of content around the subjects of light, religion and church. He has written a book about this context. (only german)

Frankfurt/M., München. Next Project of Hartung/Trenz is the “Night of Music” in Munich (31.5.2008). But before they finished the documentation of their Luminale project Leuchtzeichen. They produced also a clip. More>