The Amsterdam Light Festival is a celebration of light design, a festival that demonstrates the grandeur, charm, vitality and humanity of the city, with light and water as connecting elements. Since its establishment in 2012, it has been enriching and illuminating the city of Amsterdam with art that changes the public area during the darkest time of the year, art to which the spectator will have a surprised, enthusiastic or playful response.
The Amsterdam Light Festival 2013-2014 was held from November 28th 2013 to January 19th 2014. Themed "Bulding with Light," the festival exhibited numerous lighting and illumination installation from all over the world. 300+ works from 31 countires were submitted. In the end, 30 works were selected to be displayed. More than 550,000 visitors from near and far made their way to Amsterdam to admire the Water Colors boat tour and the Illuminade walking route.
While the Amsterdam Light Festival 2013-2014 ended January 19, 2014, the preparation for the upcoming edition, to be held from December 2014 to January 2015, are in full force. On January 19, the international Call for Concepts opens, calling on (inter)national artists to submit their proposals for next year’s festival. The selected artworks will be shown during Amsterdam Light Festival 2014-2015. This year’s theme is ‘A Bright City’.
Amsterdam Light Festival 2014-2015 will have two main parts: the Water Colors boat tour from December until mid January and the Illuminade walking route during three weeks around christmas and new year’s eve.
Professional designers, artists, scientists and students are all welcom to submit their concepts for light art and lighting design. The best submissions will be featured at the 2014 – 2015 edition of the Festival.
More information about the submission requirements can be found the website of Amsterdam Light Festival.
