Light routes Lüdenscheid

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The light routes (spelling: LichtRouten) are a light art and light design exhibition that has been taking place in public space in Lüdenscheid at irregular intervals since 2002 . The starting point of the light routes has been the city ​​center of Lüdenscheid since 2002 . The artistic directors are Bettina Pelz and Tom Groll.

Awards

In 2004 the light routes were awarded the Sauerland 2004 Innovation Prize from the Sauerland Initiative . In 2007 they received the Martin Leicht Prize Westfalensprung from the Westphalia Initiative .

organizer

Due to the diverse lighting and electrical industries in and around Lüdenscheid, artificial light is a material that has a special impact on life and work in the city. The light routes are produced by the Lüdenscheider Stadtmarketinggesellschaft with the shareholders Stadt Lüdenscheid, Sparkasse Lüdenscheid, Stadtwerke Lüdenscheid and Economic Development District Lüdenscheid (WKL eV) with regular support from the Employers' Association of the Metal and Electrical Industry Lüdenscheid eV and many commercial companies, including Derksen Lichttechnik, ERCO , Fischer Electronics, Hueck , Hoffmeister lights, Insta , Kostal and Trilux .

Venues

Locations included the area of the Lüdenscheid train station, which was largely unused until 2009, and many other industrial and other cultural monuments, including the old town hall of Lüdenscheid and the neo-baroque Villa Hueck .

history

Light routes 2002

The leitmotif of the first light routes were "black boxes", blackened construction containers that were distributed as foreign bodies over the urban space and housed light-based objects or installations, including works by Klaus Geldmacher , Daniel Hausig , Georg Hartung , Kazuo Katase and Dieter Kiessling . The course was supplemented by interventions by Tatsuro Bashi , Hermelinde Hergenhahn , Nan Hoover and Francesco Mariotti, among others .

The work “Memories of Wind” by Stefan Hofmann was purchased as a permanent installation by the city of Lüdenscheid and the Lüdenscheid municipal utility.

Light routes 2003

The installations, interventions and performances at “non-places”, meaning public spaces that had disappeared from public awareness, came from Barbara Buchholz and Olga Koumeguer , Yvonne Goulbier , Nan Hoover , Sabine Kacunko , Mischa Kuball , André Philip Lemke , Aurelia Mihai , among others , Thomas Roppel , Helmut Schweizer and Michel Verjux .

The work “Souvenirs” by Helga Griffiths was awarded the 2003 Light Route Audience Award.

Light routes 2004

As part of the conception of the “light biotopes”, works by Sanja Ivekovic , Magdalena Jetelová , Gudrun Kemsa , Klaus Obermaier , Roman Signer , Jan van Munster , Katarina Veldhues and Gottfried Schumacher were on view.

Light routes 2006

The theme of the exhibition was "Architecture of Memory". Participating artists and designers included Danica Dakić , Jean-François Guiton , Ron Haselden , Thomas Köner , Mischa Kuball , Christina Kubisch , Molitor & Kuzmin , Jakub Nepraš , Jaan Toomik , Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi .

Gustavo Avilés' light staging of Mathildenfriedhofsfriedhof was awarded the public prize for light routes.

The "light banks" by Stefan Sous were bought by Stadtwerke Lüdenscheid for permanent use in the city. The installation “Glowworm Palace” by Francesco Mariotti was kept on Wilhelmsplatz for a period of two years.

Light routes 2010

With works by, among others Gudrun Barenbrock , Ghíju Diaz de Leon , Ali Heshmati and Lars Meeß-Olsohn , Olga Kisseleva , Thorbjørn Lausten , Dominik Lejman , Ocubo , Stephan Reusse , Sigrid Sandmann , Gebhard Sengmüller , Ursula Scherrer and Kurt Laurenz Theinert a course was created to on the subject of "Chambers of Wonder of Light".

Katharina Berndt's projection “Des Fischer's fat booty” can be seen until the next light routes in 2013 at Wilhelmsplatz.

Light routes 2013

The 2013 light routes took place from September 27 to October 6, 2013. This year's theme was “The Art of Projection”. The participating artists were Jürgen Albrecht, Refik Anadol, Atsara - Audrey Rocher + Roland Devocelle, Katharina Berndt, Cuppetelli + Mendoza, Christoph Girardet, Hartung + Trenz, Joseph O. Holmes, Dieter Kiessling, Vollrad Kutscher, Jakob Mattner , László Moholy-Nagy , Klaus Obermaier, Rainer Plum, Quayola, Diana Ramaekers, Nicolas Schöffer , Robert Sochacki, Max Sudhues and Amy Youngs. The course of the installations extended from the city ​​center over the station area to the entire urban redevelopment area of ​​the "think tank". The official opening of the light routes took place on September 27, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. at the entrance to the main post office in Lüdenscheid.

There were a total of twenty different installations for the light routes in 2013, as well as various other event locations and a central information point at Rathausplatz 4 at the main post office in Lüdenscheid. Starting from the information point at Rathausplatz 4, there were, among other things, three different, free guided tours to the 20 installations of the light routes. One of them comprised installations 1–10, the second installations 11–20 and the third a short route to individual, selected installations.

On the 10 days of the event, around 45,000 people visited the light routes in 2013, 5,000 more than in the light routes in 2010. This corresponded to a visitor value of around 4,500 people per event day. Accordingly, the light route organizers drew an extremely positive balance in the end. Many people from other cities in Germany and Europe also came to Lüdenscheid especially for the light routes. Accordingly, the hotels were fully booked and the city's restaurants profited greatly from the rush of visitors.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Light routes. lichtrouten.de, accessed on October 7, 2018 (overview of all previous light routes with year).
  2. ↑ LichtRouten Lüdenscheid. City of Lüdenscheid, July 27, 2012, accessed April 17, 2013 .
  3. ^ Sauerland Innovation Prize 2004. (No longer available online.) Sauerland Initiative, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 20, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sauerlandinitiativ.de
  4. ↑ WestfalenSprung show the way! Shaping the city! Show the future! (No longer available online.) Westfalen Initiative, July 20, 2011, archived from the original on February 13, 2013 ; Retrieved April 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.westfalen-initiative.de
  5. ^ Nan Hoover group exhibitions. Nan Hoover, accessed February 6, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Chronology: Lüdenscheid on the way to the city of light. City of Lüdenscheid, 2012, accessed on April 17, 2013 .
  7. ^ Nan Hoover group exhibitions. Nan Hoover, accessed February 6, 2014 .
  8. ↑ light banks. City of Lüdenscheid, 2012, accessed on April 17, 2013 .
  9. ↑ LichtQuartier. City of Lüdenscheid, 2012, accessed on April 17, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Award for artist Katharina Berndt from Bremen. University of the Arts Bremen, August 17, 2012, accessed on April 17, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Monika Salzmann: LichtRouten enchants the city. WAZ , January 15, 2013, accessed April 17, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten of September 28, 2013: "Light routes 2013 - opening without staging"
  13. ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider News from October 7, 2013: "No rain in the Lüdenscheider plane tree grove"
  14. ↑ Article from the Lüdenscheider News from October 7, 2013: "Light routes: Enriching and invigorating"