Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe

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Schlosslichtspiele 2018

The Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe is a light art festival that has been taking place in the summer of 2015 on Karlsruhe's Schlossplatz . The facade of the Karlsruhe Palace serves as a video projection surface ( projection mapping ).

Concept and development

The Schlosslichtspiele were founded in 2015 as part of Global Digital for the 300th birthday of Karlsruhe by Peter Weibel , the artistic and scientific director of the Center for Art and Media (ZKM). This year the city organized a festival summer under the title KA300 . One of the highlights was the every evening castle light show, artistically initiated by the ZKM, which staged the entire south facade of Karlsruhe Castle with elaborate sound and image projections.

The city of Karlsruhe - known for its radial plan - is also called the fan- shaped city . According to Weibel, it made sense to choose the castle, the center of this floor plan, as the central starting point for reflections on urban architecture. The video mappings refer to the facade of the castle, which houses the Badisches Landesmuseum , as well as to the city's history. Special attention is paid to the interaction of the visitors with the light plays - with the help of games or movements they become part of the choreography conceived by the artists.

Due to the positive response to the 2015 Schlosslichtspiele, the Karlsruhe municipal council decided to permanently continue the format under the artistic direction of the ZKM in cooperation with the KEG Karlsruhe Event GmbH.

Castle light games

Schlosslichtspiele 2015

In 2015, the celebration of Karlsruhe's 300th birthday was the thematic focus of the artistic projections.

With their projection, the Hungarian artist group Maxin10sity brought 300 fragments of the past, present and future of Karlsruhe onto the palace: Among other things, reference was made to the dream of Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach , who illustrated the legend of the city's development. Jesper Wachtmeister's projection Reflections began in nature and continued from there: Using the history of the castle, it illustrated the premodern era, the modern machine age and the era of information technology . ruestungsschmie.de combined the architecture and sounds of the Karlsruhe City Palace with their projection noise3 .

Schlosslichtspiele 2015

With the Capture the Pyramid projection by the artist group PONG.LI, the castle facade was transformed into an interactive megapixel multiplayer mapping game. The spectators could try to reach the glowing, golden pyramid in the middle of the castle via smartphones. The artist collective Xenorama staged the vision of Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach with Oneironaut to create a castle as the center of a new, fanned out city, and the audiovisual work Reverb developed by László Zsolt Bordos / Bordos.ArtWorks was guided by the idea of ​​geometric and to combine organic forms.

The projection Epilog by Holger Förter dared to look ahead to the next 300 years of the Karlsruhe Palace : slowly the palace was overgrown by trees, the masonry began to crack, the palace increasingly resembled a sunken temple that nature has recaptured. In the abstract projection Dazz by Playmodes Studio, black and white represented the methods that shape humanity in the 21st century: classification, categorization and organization.

Especially for the 2015 Schlosslichtspiele, the ZKM project FLICK_KA by Peter Weibel and Matthias Gommel was expanded into a projection that focused on the active participation of the visitors: a photo booth was installed on the palace square in which visitors can be photographed could. The images were then projected onto the castle facade as a citizens' gallery.

Schlosslichtspiele 2016

Schlosslichtspiele 2016

In the summer of 2016, Alexander Stublic's palace staged work had the facade of the palace rotate around an imaginary central axis like a revolving stage. The Paperlife projection by Hauslaib Lichtwelten created a new facade made of paper: it was folded, torn and creased like the page of a book.

The artist collective Xenorama, already represented in 2015, also worked with the materiality of paper in their work Transkutan : They filmed a scale model of the castle made of paper and threw it digitally onto the real physical surface of the castle. The studio DSG animation + VFX let iconic works of the classical avant-garde dance over the castle during their projection Defilee for the 100th birthday of the avant-garde .

In 2016, Maxin10sity also took a look into the past: In their projection, Legacy exhibits from the Badisches Landesmuseum were shone in a new light, in order to retell cultural history from prehistory to ancient cultures in fast motion.

Schlosslichtspiele 2017

In 2017, the thematic focus of the Schlosslichtspiele was on new forms of architecture . Projections by the architectural duo Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture , by Zaha Hadid Architects and by architect Greg Lynn were shown for the first time.

In Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture's work Hyperfine Splitting 008_Mediations on Jakob's Ladder , the materiality of the building dissolved bit by bit: the real shape of the castle facade interacted with computer-generated lines and structures. With Behavior Morphe , the London architectural firm Zaha Hadid Architects tried to synthesize architectural forms and music with human behavior. The castle facade became the living space of virtual, computer-generated figures that moved and reacted to one another. For his work Rolling Eye , Greg Lynn used a robot with sixteen video cameras arranged in a circle for seamless 360-degree recordings. The robot accompanied the architect Frank Gehry , the museum director Max Hollein and the architecture and art critic Aaron Betsky . The recordings were then projected onto the palace facade.

Maxin10sity presented the work Structures of Life in 2017 . They transformed the castle facade into a kind of primeval ocean, whose underwater worlds showed the diversity of the first forms of life. In his projection mapping Cleansing , the Israeli artist Eyal Gever had the Karlsruhe Palace virtually flooded and its facade washed away by its impressively simulated masses of water. The starting point of the Bremen artist collective Urbanscreen was the exciting juxtaposition of architectural form and design principles. In the work Inhomogeneous , the classicist architecture of the Karlsruhe Palace was broken down into its basic elements, which at the same time also represent the smallest units of every graphic composition : point, line and surface.

Schlosslichtspiele 2018

The motto of the Schlosslichtspiele 2018 was: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" ("Any sufficiently advanced technology can no longer be distinguished from magic") ( Arthur C. Clarke ).

Maxin10sity presented their show I'mmortal (Immortal / I am mortal) in 2018 , for which they cooperated with acrobats from the Recirquel Company from Budapest. The company slipped into various roles, acrobatic elements from the contemporary circus repertoire and mapping complemented each other to create a new visual genre.

With The Object of The Mind, the artist collective Global Illumination recapitulated the technological development steps that led to the networked information society: The show begins with the era of analog machines, punch cards, 8-bit processors and PCs artificial neural networks. For his show Memories , the 3-D artist László Zsolt Bordos created an imaginary storage location in which the artist's personal memories are stored.

With his work hands-on , the Karlsruhe media artist Jonas Denzel transformed the castle into a body of light and sound: hands knock, rub and clap on the castle facade until they finally encourage the audience to clap along with inviting gestures and thus become part of the rousing rhythm become.

Art form projection mapping

Schlosslichtspiele 2019

The castle lighting effects can be understood as a digital extension of the cinema, the former as a movie theater was named. Through the projected images in real time, the audience experiences how the building is constantly changing. Light architecture overlays stone architecture and transforms it into fantastic palaces or into buildings with calculated geometry. Fantastic architectures and landscapes, abstract visual patterns and poetic narratives supported by intoxicating sound collages displace real architecture. The meeting of virtual images and real facades creates optical and acoustic effects from light and shadow, color and music.

Web links

Commons : Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. KA300 - News for the city birthday. The city birthday as a Karlsruhe summer fairy tale. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  2. ^ Peter Weibel: Digital projection art . In: Peter Weibel (Ed.): Schlosslichtspiele 2015–2017 . ZKM, Karlsruhe, ISBN 978-3-928201-54-4 , pp. 5 .
  3. Municipal Council: Karlsruhe Castle Light Games. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
  4. ZKM: Maxin10sity - 300 Fragments. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  5. “Schlosslichtspiele” 2016: Highlight weekend with shows from the premiere year. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  6. “Schlosslichtspiele” 2016: Highlight weekend with shows from the premiere year. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  7. ^ The palace in a different light: evening show in Karlsruhe. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  8. Xenorama: Oneironaut. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  9. ZKM: László Zsolt Bordos / Bordos.ArtWorks: REVERB. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  10. “Schlosslichtspiele” 2016: Highlight weekend with shows from the premiere year. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  11. ^ ZKM Karlsruhe: Schlosslichtspiele. FLICK_KA. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
  12. Real spectacle! Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe 2016 with new shows. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
  13. Schlosslichtspiele: shows look up and behind the facade. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
  14. Real spectacle! Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe 2016 with new shows. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
  15. Architecture is the focus. Zaha Hadid Architects and Greg Lynn signed up for Schlosslichtspiele. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
  16. Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe 2017: These are the (new) artists! Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  17. ZKM commissions six artists. Games of light from the castle let the facade flood with water. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  18. Schlosslichtspiele: When technology becomes magic. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
  19. Schlosslichtspiele 2018: “The region's summer adventure center!” Accessed on August 13, 2018 .
  20. Schlosslichtspiele 2018: “The region's summer adventure center!” Accessed on August 13, 2018 .
  21. Idis Hartmann: The projected space as a spectacle. On the history of projection mapping . In: Peter Weibel (Ed.): Schlosslichtspiele 2015–2017 . ZKM | Karlsruhe, ISBN 978-3-928201-54-4 , pp. 7-9 .