| Lichtstadt Feldkirch | |
| Status: | Active |
| Country: | Austria |
| Genre: | Light art festival |
| Frequency: | Bi-annually |
| Venue: | City centre of Feldkirch (outdoor) |
| Location: | Feldkirch |
| Next: | 2023 |
| Attendance: | 30.000 (2018)[1] |
| Area: | Vorarlberg |
| First: | 2018 |
| Founders: | --> |
| Or Sponsors: | --> |
| Website: | https://www.lichtstadt.at/ |
Lichtstadt Feldkirch ("City of Light Feldkirch") is a light art festival in Feldkirch in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It was first held in 2018. It is planned that the festival be held every two years.[2]
Lichtstadt Feldkirch is a four-day biennial light show in the city of Feldkirch. In the nighttime, light installations are presented at ten different venues. Many of the projects are created for the respective location.[3] The installations are free and barrier-free accessible.[4]
"As a scene for light art, the urban space offers numerous unexplored possibilities to experience our present through architecture, light and technology, to break viewing habits or to illuminate the past. [...] Artistic development can be made possible and thus different thematic or technically innovative focal points can be set will." – Lichtstadt Association[5]Asynchronous to the main events, the smaller "Spotlight" events have been taking place since 2020, each of which focuses on an artist or a group of artists.[6]
The festival and the "Spotlight" series are organized by the non-profit association "Lichtstadt", which was founded in 2017.
The 2021 edition will take place from 4–7 October 2023.[7]
The 2021 edition took place from 6–9 October 2021.[8] The international artists and artist collectives OchoReSotto, Peter Kogler, Brigitte Kowanz, David Reumüller, NEON GOLDEN, artificialOwl and DUNDU realized mappings, installations, projections and interactive works in the second edition.[9]
The 2020 edition of the festival was postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19.[10]
The first edition in 2018 was held to celebrate the 800th anniversary year of the city of Feldkirch. It took place from October 3 to 6, 2018. Ten projects by international artists, e.g. Ólafur Elíasson, transformed the old town into a large open-air museum at nightfall. Installations, sculptures, projections on facades and floor as well as laser projections, mappings and light objects were part of the light art festival.[11]