A classic medium of light art meets a classic opera house and also one of the most beautiful buildings in Essen: at the Essen Light Festival, ten overhead projectors throw brightly coloured light art onto the facade of the Aalto Music Theatre. And it's live and completely analogue! You can look over the shoulders of the Hungarian artists between the Aalto and the Philharmonie as they create imaginative motifs and artistic ideas using various techniques directly on site and project them onto the fascinating architecture of the Aalto Theatre. Organic forms and colours meet the award-winning architecture of the famous Alvar Aalto, an architect and artist whose design language was almost exclusively based on organic forms and their principles.
For the Essen Light Festival, the use of this simple overhead projection technique, which dates back to 1927, is a premiere. The same applies to the constantly changing live painting of the artists' collective.
Playing time: from dusk till 10 pm
Location: Aalto Theatre
