11 - 16 aprile 2010, FrankfurtRheinMain (DE) >[deadline: 24/10/2009]
With the ‘Call for Projects’ the countdown for the Luminale in 2010 has begun. The Luminale is a international festival of lighting culture taking place every two years in Frankfurt am Main and the entire Rhine-Main region. In addition to Frankfurt itself, Offenbach, Rüsselsheim, Mainz and Wiesbaden all play host to the festival. The concept was developed in the year 2000 and realized for the first time in 2002. By the third edition of the festival in 2006, it comprised some 180 lighting projects and around 160 events in museums and galleries, adorning the facades of tall buildings, warehouses, streets, city squares, churches, parks, river banks and bridges. 2008 Luminale had 227 projects with roundabout 180 events. Unlike other festivals, the Luminale has an international character and an international impact. It coincides with the world trade fair for lighting: the Light+Building, the venue for which is the Frankfurt trade fair centre. This fair is attended by people from all over the world with a professional interest in lighting. Among the 165,000 international guests, there are 40,000 architects, who in addition to the trade fair visit the Luminale. Special bus tours are organized to make it easy for international visitors as well as the general public to visit the individual lighting installations and compare them. The programme of the Luminale is addressed both to visitors from all over the world with a professional interest in lighting and to the general public of the region. This makes the Luminale different from other lighting events, which are guided by purely commercial or touristic goals. The Luminale is a lighting laboratory open to the public. Innovation and experimentation occupy centre stage rather than oft-rehearsed illumination spectaculars aimed at a mass public. In many respects, the Luminale is a kind of meta-festival. Anyone whose work at the Luminale finds favour in the eyes of the lighting world will be invited to other festivals of light. Info: e-mail: luminale@westermann-kommunikation.de - www.luminapolis.com