April 22th to 27th, – The Lighting and Culture Spectacle, once again the number of projects has almost doubled. For the third time in succession. 176 light projects will be staged during the light festival in Frankfurt Rhein-Main to run beside the fair Light + Building. This time Luminale will also be lighting up Frankfurt’s neighbours Mainz, Wiesbaden and Darmstadt. (L+B)
www.luminale.de
www.luminapolis.com
Animator and curator of Luminale: Helmut M. Bien, Angelika Kroll-Marth
www.westermann-kommunikation.de

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany. “114 KW” verwandelte die Rotunde im Eingangsbereich der Schirn in eine gleißend helle Arena. 57 Scheinwerfer mit einer Gesamtleistung von 114 Kilowatt waren kreisförmig im Innenraum der Rotunde montiert. Beim Betreten wurden die Besucher mit einer extremen, blendenden Helligkeit konfrontiert. Das Arrangement der Technik aus Verteilerkästen, Vorschaltgeräten und gelben Kabeln war Bestandteil der Installation.
www.siegrunappelt.com
www.schirn-kunsthalle.de

The Light installation “Shadow ‘n Play” was presented by master students of Architectural Lighting Design at Hochschule Wismar. Guest had the chance to participate in an interactive play of shadow and light. The sympathetic hands-on Project was within the Luminale 2006, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
www.ar.hs-wismar.de

Architectural projection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Project within Luminale 2006 . In a creative misunderstanding and play on the words with the meaning of the term “Musterhaus” – “show house”, “exemplary house” as well as “pattern house”. The scene of the event was a generally unmentioned solitary high-rise building of the 60s in a architecturally historically prominent position: at the pivot of Ernst May’s exemplary housing estate, where the Riedhof once stood.
The patterns, which “Casa Magica” created specifically for this project and adapted to the features of this apartment building, cite symbols of various lifestyles, which can be found concretely in habitations: Stresemann-trousers, Murano-chandelier, tea strainer, grand piano, mountaineering boot.
Regarding the technical realisation two large format projectors type PANI BP 6 GT with carousel slide changers, automatic shutters and 180 mm lenses were used. (Casa Magica)
www.casamagica.de
www.pani.com

Ballet of travelling trolleys, Petra Goldmann, Ingelheim, Container harbour, Mainz, Germany
Project within Luminale 2006. The kinetic lighting installation illuminates the long-distance visibility, sculptural quality of the 25 metre high crabs in the container harbour. By means of light, colour and movement this industrial site is transformed into a poetic, futuristic landscape in which shining giants come alive.

Hinter der äußeren Glasfassade mit der Aufschrift ‘lentos kunstmuseum’ sind Leuchten integriert, die in Farbton und Helligkeit variiert werden können.
Nachts verwandelt sich das Kunstmuseum in einen leuchtenden Körper der sich in der Donau spiegelt.
www.lentos.at
www.weber-hofer.ch

Der langjährige Arbeitsort des Fachbereiches Architektur und Innenarchitektur der Fachhochschule Mainz im Zollhafen wird sich städtebaulich verändern. Mit diesem Wandel setzten sich die Studierenden anlässlich der Luminale 2006 facettenreich auseinander.
www.fh-mainz.de

Usualy the darkness reveals what was hidden during the day. Within the Luminale 2006 Luciana Alanis and Nico Hopp invited the visitors of the botanical garden Franfurt am Main hunting indigenous animals by using light.
www.hfg-offenbach.de/index.php?nodeId=2200&page=2

Luciana Alanis, atelier deLuxe in cooperation with Monnlight GmbH illuminated the botanical garden Frankfurt am Main within the Luminale 2006. The Moonlights glow out of ponds, grow on the medows, hide in the undergroth and plunge the botanical garden into a fairytale light.

It is seething violently. Within the Luminale 05 the design team 5e created an enormous test tube – hundreds of green balloons bubbled in the glassed dome of the entrance building botanical gardens Frankfurt.
http://www.hfg-offenbach.de/index.php?nodeId=2200&page=2

Anlässlich der Luminale 2006 erstrahlte das Ensemble “Skyper” – historische Villa, moderner Büroturm, sowie Wohn- und Geschäftshaus – in einem leuchtenden Orange. An einer Seite war die Hochhausfassade mit einem markanten roten Punkt versehen.
www.andreanusser.de

Power station at Westhafen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The power station will be illuminated by iGuzzini Deutschland GmbH in collaboration with Planungsbüro Belzner & Holmes and BLV. As for the lighting project Color-Woody spotlights will be installed at the base of the chimneys to give the effect of fire. Scarcely perceptible movements will cause the observer to make associations with the generation of energy. The chimneys will be illuminated uniformly, with light areas contrasted, and the stairwells included with an individual colour scheme.
www.iguzzini.com

Design and Architecture: Vito Hannibal Acconci (USA)
Idea: Robert Punkenhofer (Austria)

Abschlussfeuerwerk zu der von Hermann van Veen (NL) inszenierten Veranstaltung “Visualisierte Linzer Klangwolke”.
ARS-Electronica 2006, Linz, Austria

Die Fussball-Show auf der Frankfurter Skyline.
Mit einer dreitägigen Ouvertüre startete die Mainmetropole in die FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft Deutschland 2006. Eine große emotionale Inzenierung der Skyline stimmte die Gäste und die Gastgeber auf die bevorstehende Austragung ein.
Großdiaprojektionen auf die Fassaden der Hochhäuser, ein 45 minütiges Zusammenspiel von Licht, Bild und Ton aus vorangegangenen Fussball-Weltmeisterschaften.
Am Ende eine zum Nachdenken anregende Installation der Künstlerin Marie-Jo Lafontaine.
Veranstalter: Tourismus+Congress GmbH Frankfurt am Main
Agentur: Atelier Markgraph, Frankfurt am Main
www.markgraph.de

The »Light Cocoon« is a students work of the department of architecture, Fachhochschule Frankfurt/M., Prof. Wolfgang Rang. A temporary skulpture of sound, light and space within the Festival of Light »Luminale« 2006, Frankfurt Rhein-Main, Germany.
www.atelier-rang.de
At certain moments the spatial works of “Sonic Architecture” will be heard inside the installation.
www.sonicarchitecture.de

within the Luminale 2006, the Light Festival in Frankfurt/M., Heiko Höfer illuminated the Luther Kirche (Luther church) with abstract ornaments.
www.bildanagramme.de

Continuous illumination of the Main river waterfront. City of Frankfurt/M. Germany
The illumination concept for the Main river waterfront of the City of Frankfurt was created by d-plan, Hamburg. The individuality of each bridge is an essential part of the continuous lighting installation. Also the sycamore trees beside the river bank are illuminated on an poetic way.
www.d-plan.de
www.selux.de

»Pirouette« by the Berlin based artist Barbara Trautmann is the winning entry of an art in building competition for the new entrance hall, which functions as a public space between the research wing, lecture hall and wards, of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Uniklinikum Frankfurt/M. The lighting object is designed by using 97 fluorescent lamps. Arranged in the air as a three-dimensional-sign and enters into a dialogue with the architecture. Defining the space and allowing new poetic views by changing the perspective. The installation was presented as a part of the Lighting Festival »Luminale 2008« in Frankfurt/M.

Within the »Luminale 2008«, the Biennale Lighting Culture Festival in Frankfurt Rhein/Mein presents Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz their installation »Leuchtzeichen« (in engl. blip). A projection of typo graphics transformed the content of the »Literaturhaus« (house of literature) in the urban space.

Architectural Projection by CASA MAGICA at LUMINALE 2008,
Frankfurt am Main (GER)
A disused industrial building of the 1920s, Frankfurt’s former wholesale market is about to be converted into the new headquarters of the European Central Bank. Before the real construction work begins on the site of the impressive, 250-metre-long building on the northern banks of the River Main, Casa Magica creates ephemeral, virtual metamorphoses, generated by light, on its southern facade. These night panoramas consist of motifs recalling the past (wholesale market) as well as allusions to the near (construction works) and distant (New ECB Premises) future, freely adapting the formal principles characterising banknotes, those objects which are the concrete everyday symbol of the abstract concept of the financial economy.
Concept, Artwork, Realization: CASA MAGICA, Friedrich Foerster and Sabine Weissinger
Sponsor: European Central Bank
Equipment-Sponsor: PANI Projection & Lighting Vertriebs GmbH Wien
Event Engineering: coopertion with Light Express, Hasselroth
www.casamagica.de
mail@casamagica.de

The funnel shape of the light object, which originates in acoustics, combines the incitement to give everybody a piece of our mind with a light signal in the city at night. Am I the caller or am I listening? The urban venue receives a totally new definition. A signal for verbal communication that falls back on light as a medium.
www.schultze-krause.de