Light Installations - 27 examples

Light installations are pieces of art that utilize light (either natural or artificial) as the core medium for creation or presentation. The light medium can be in the form of flames, fire, fluorescent lights, incandescent lights, neon lights, LED, electric light bulbs, or even natural sunlight.

Light installation artists harness light to craft engaging, beautiful, and thought-provoking creative statements. These artistic works can be permanent, contemporary, or modern and range from subtle indoor installations to large, outdoor public art. James Turrell, Robert Irwin, and Dan Flavin are arguably some of the biggest and most respected light installation artists.

Light artist Bruce Munro’s magical Cantus Arcticus

Installations, Light Installations / 3 minutes of reading
Who is Bruce Munro? Bruce Munro is one of the most prominent light artists. Over the years, he has demonstrated an uncanny ability to produce intriguing work in traditional surroundings. More importantly, he has come up with several top-notch productions, including his latest creation – Cantus Arcticus. In this article, we examine the qualities that …

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Get lost in Antony Gormley’s Mist Room – Blind Light

Installations, Light Installations / 2 minutes of reading
The Mist Room, which premiered on October 26 and lasted all through to December 1, 2007, was a major exhibition by artist Antony Gormley. The Mist Room became a critically acclaimed piece of work, managing to pull over 200,000 visitors. The installation, which was first hosted by the Hayward Gallery, London, was so successful …

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What is Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower all about?

Architecture, Installations, Light Installations / 5 minutes of reading
The Imagine Peace Tower The Imagine Peace Tower is a memorial crafted by Japanese-American artist and musician Yoko Ono. She created this in tribute for her deceased husband and legendary member of The Beatles, John Lennon. The Imagine Peace Tower is Yoko’s largest work of art to date. It took her three years to develop …

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Carsten Nicolai’s Unicolor throws you off-balance

Installations, Light Installations, Sound installations / 3 minutes of reading
Who is Carsten Nicolai? Carsten Nicolai profiles as a prolific artist with works in electronic music, art institutions, and scientific phenomena. In his works, he attempts to challenge human beings’ sensory perceptions by designing installations comprehensible through the ears and eyes. Carsten perceives sound as a sculptural material and relies upon sound waves to develop …

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Magdalena Jetelovà’s Iceland Project

Environmental Art, Installations, Light Installations / 2 minutes of reading
Who is Magdalena Jetelovà? Magdalena Jetelovà is perhaps best known the world over for her 1990s work Domestication of Pyramids. Light works In the 1990s, Magdalena Jetelovà transitioned to the artwork that uses light as a tool to define territories and uncover the secrets that our universe conceals. With a combination of laser use and …

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Carlos Cruz-Diez’s Cistern work needs you to be complete

Installations, Light Installations / 3 minutes of reading
Who was Carlos Cruz-Diez? Carlos Cruz-Diez was a Venezuelan artist who lived and worked in Paris since 1960. The artist was a significant protagonist in the field of kinetic and optical art. He has pioneered a couple of impressive artworks. Some vividly remember his crosswalks installations, painted in numerous cities such as Mexico City, Houston, …

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Carsten Nicolai’s syn chron – A one of a kind masterpiece

Installations, Light Installations, Sound installations / 3 minutes of reading
Artists have an enviable knack for coming up with staggering designs. Carsten Nicolai is no different. In syn chron, he teamed up with his group of architects to design a one of a kind sound, light, and architectural masterpiece. It’s unthinkable how Carsten Nicolai conceptualized the rarely talked of art. Syn Chron stands as …

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Snarkitecture’s remarkable & interactive NYC installation Sway

Art & Technology, Installations, Light Installations / 3 minutes of reading
Snarkitecture’s new creation – Sway – is a massive piece of art that only needs a touch to light up into blue. Sway is a collection of 168 white round orbs. The immersive installation is for a gallery located at Intersect. At first, you may not feel like touching the art. However, the reaction …

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Carsten Nicolai’s light patterns dominates Hong Kong’s skyline

Installations, Light Installations, Sound installations / 3 minutes of reading
Carsten Nicolai has created an impressive audio-visual work in his sterling career as a contemporary artist. His α (alpha) pulse creation stands out from the others for its uniqueness. Through it, he endeavors to illuminate the Hong Kong skyline. The latest creation adds to the impressive list of mindboggling stuff that Nicolai has always …

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Phillip K. Smith’s colorful Skybridge transforms Detroit’s skyline

Architecture, Installations, Light Installations / 3 minutes of reading
What is Detroit’s Skybridge? In Larned, Detroit, a towering bridge connects two skyscrapers. It’s a bridge that strikes from afar with its extraordinary grace. It combines the vintage-styled Guarding building and the iconic One Woodward. Soaring in the 16th floors of the buildings, it illuminates the street with its dancing and moving colors. The Skybridge …

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The story behind Walter de Maria’s impressive Lightning field

Installations, Light Installations / 4 minutes of reading
The Lightning Field created by sculptor Walter De Maria is today celebrated as one of the 20th century’s most noteworthy installations of land art. As one of the seminal artists and the founding fathers of land art, Walter De Maria completely revolutionized how audiences perceived art, especially during the 1960s, when the land art …

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Olafur Eliasson’s fascinating colorful haze installation in Beijing

Installations, Light Installations / 3 minutes of reading
What was Feelings Are Facts? Feelings Are Facts was created as a result of a collaboration between Danish artist Olafur Eliasson and Beijing-based architect Ma Yansong of MAD studio. Feelings Are Facts was constructed within one of the rooms at the UCCA galleries. It measured approximately 60m by 20m and featured a moderately slanted floor …

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Anthony McCall & 10 of his best solid light works

Installations, Light Installations / 5 minutes of reading
Who is Anthony McCall Anthony McCall is a pioneering artist in ‘solid light’ installations. His works have been exhibited worldwide and always mesmerizing with the use of natural elements, light, fire and space to create art. McCall was born in England in 1946. He studied graphic design and photography at Ravensbourne College of Art …

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Luzinterruptus made these labyrinths entirely out of plastic waste

Installations, Light Installations / 2 minutes of reading
Who is Luzinterruptus? It is no secret that the world has been up in arms regarding the global state of pollution. The increasingly popular Spanish art collective, Luzinterruptus, has been front and center in the fight against the plastic that has been polluting the ecosystem, as well as threatening marine life in the Pacific Ocean. …

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Tokujin Yoshioka’s Rainbow Church – The liberation of light

Installations, Light Installations / 3 minutes of reading
Rainbow Church Rainbow church is aptly named and refers to an eight-meter-high installation that creates a rainbow as light is refracted within its space. The installation is a wall of crystal prism that throws off rainbows to anyone within the installation space. The 500 crystal prisms that make up the installation allow light passing through …

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Jun Ong’s large, bright floating star – Blazing in white light

Installations, Light Installations / 2 minutes of reading
Installed in Penang, Malaysia, Star was a large-scale light sculpture in the shape of a star by artist and architect Jun Ong. About Star The star is set at the core of an unfinished concrete building that spans all five floors from the ground to the roof. It forms a 12-sided polygon, also called a …

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