\u201cIt is wonderful\u00a0that we can\u00a0once again offer everyone who lives in and visits Stockholm the opportunity to join\u00a0us\u00a0in\u00a0celebrating\u00a0this year\u2019s Nobel\u00a0Prize laureates,\u201d says Erika Lanner, Director\u00a0of\u00a0the Nobel Prize Museum. \u201cThe\u00a0light festival\u00a0is a fantastic opportunity to\u00a0illuminate\u00a0science and culture during the\u00a0period\u00a0when Stockholm is at its darkest. I encourage everyone to take a December\u00a0stroll\u00a0and experience the\u00a0Nobel Week Lights.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two\u00a0of the\u00a0works are inspired by this year\u2019s Nobel\u00a0Prize laureates,\u00a0who will be\u00a0honoured\u00a0during\u00a0the\u00a0Nobel Week\u00a0in Stockholm. At Str\u00f6mparterren, a small waterside park below the Swedish Parliament,\u00a0you will find three large light globes\u00a0created\u00a0by\u00a0Canadian artists\u00a0Lucion M\u00e9dia. Inside these\u00a0colourful orbs, a dancing shadow play\u00a0will be visible, the story it tells is\u00a0inspired by\u00a0the\u00a0dramas\u00a0and prose\u00a0works of\u00a0this year\u2019s literature laureate Jon Fosse. The three 2023\u00a0physics laureates\u00a0\u2212\u00a0Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L\u2019Huillier\u00a0\u2212\u00a0have sparked the imagination of students at Beckmans College of Design, who\u00a0are creating\u00a0an installation with attoseconds in mind.<\/p>\n
This year the light festival has attracted one of the world\u2019s most prominent light artists. Miguel Chevalier is one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art and his works have\u00a0been shown all over the world in places such as New York, Singapore, Morocco and Brazil. His work at the\u00a0Stockholm\u00a0City Museum, \u2018Magic Carpets\u2019 consists of interactive projections that transform as the visitor walks through them. The imagery of these projections is inspired by images and symbols found in science.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","galley":[{"ID":33011,"id":33011,"title":"kickit_1","filename":"kickit_1-1-scaled.jpg","filesize":938425,"url":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kickit_1-1-scaled.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/magic-carpets-and-glowing-heartbeats-at-this-years-nobel-week-lights-festival\/kickit_1-2-2\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"At Charles Xll Square, you will be able to kick glowing orbs into action. Photo: Limelight ","name":"kickit_1-2-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":33015,"date":"2023-11-09 12:13:37","modified":"2023-11-09 12:20:07","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2560,"height":1707,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kickit_1-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kickit_1-1-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kickit_1-1-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kickit_1-1-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kickit_1-1-1536x1024.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kickit_1-1-2048x1365.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1365,"380x305":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kickit_1-1-scaled.jpg","380x305-width":570,"380x305-height":380}},{"ID":33016,"id":33016,"title":"Firefly field","filename":"Firefly-field-1.jpg","filesize":819105,"url":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Firefly-field-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/magic-carpets-and-glowing-heartbeats-at-this-years-nobel-week-lights-festival\/firefly-field\/","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"Giorgio Parisi received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics. He has studied hidden patterns in disordered, complex materials. On the island of Skeppsholmen, Netherlands-based Studio Toer has populated a hill in his honour with lights that resemble fireflies. Photo: Studio Toer ","name":"firefly-field","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":33015,"date":"2023-11-09 12:20:29","modified":"2023-11-09 12:20:42","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1000,"height":467,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Firefly-field-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Firefly-field-1-300x140.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":140,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Firefly-field-1-768x359.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":359,"large":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Firefly-field-1.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":467,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Firefly-field-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":467,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Firefly-field-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":467,"380x305":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Firefly-field-1.jpg","380x305-width":570,"380x305-height":266}}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_content","text_block":"
The work that will be on display at the City Hall\u00a0will\u00a0draw attention to Stockholm\u2019s history and art history, as well as the City Hall\u2019s strong connection to the Nobel\u00a0Prize festivities. The magnificent play of light on the fa\u00e7ade is also a tribute to the\u00a0Stockholm\u00a0City Hall\u00a0building itself, which this year celebrates its centenary. Among other things, you will be able to see how the City Hall was built\u00a0\u2212\u00a0brick by brick.<\/p>\n
One\u00a0of the\u00a0artistic\u00a0light\u00a0installations will link\u00a0football to physics. Niels Bohr\u2019s\u00a0model of the\u00a0atom made its breakthrough in the\u00a0scientific\u00a0world\u00a0during\u00a0the early\u00a020th century.\u00a0Bohr\u00a0was the first to explain how atoms were structured. In the artwork \u201cKick it\u201d, visitors themselves\u00a0can initiate a reaction where light jumps from ball to ball. The\u00a0orbs\u00a0of light move, like an image of how electrons\u00a0revolve\u00a0around the nucleus\u00a0of an atom. Niels Bohr was also a passionate football\u00a0player\u00a0and\u00a0goalkeeper\u00a0for his\u00a0home\u00a0team in Copenhagen. In 1922 he received the\u00a0Nobel Prize in\u00a0Physics.<\/p>\n
At Benny Fredrikssons Torg\u00a0(a street behind Kulturhuset), lighting designer Irina My Ahrenstedt has collaborated with an elementary school in\u00a0Stockholm\u2019s\u00a0S\u00f6dermalm\u00a0district. Nearly a hundred ten-year-olds have created kaleidoscopes that will be projected onto one of the\u00a0building\u00a0walls.\u00a0This artwork was inspired by a\u00a0Nobel\u00a0Prize laureate in medicine, Ragnar Granit (1967), who researched how the eye perceives colours, and\u00a0by physics laureate\u00a0Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1930), who studied the diffraction of light\u00a0according to\u00a0the so-called Raman effect.<\/p>\n
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The Stockholm Cathedral\u00a0will display\u00a0an artwork\u00a0inspired by\u00a0literature laureate Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer\u2019s poetry collection \u201cThe\u00a0Sorrow Gondola\u201d. Designer and light artist Ivan\u00a0Wahren\u00a0will let\u00a0a green-blue shimmering light meander down the high tower\u00a0of the cathedral.<\/p>\n
Sixty\u00a0guided tours in six languages\u00a0will be\u00a0offered during the\u00a0light\u00a0festival.<\/p>\n
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Locations with\u00a0<\/strong>artistic\u00a0<\/strong>light installations:\u00a0<\/strong>Benny Fredrikssons torg,\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0Centralbron\u00a0bridge,\u00a0the\u00a0Grand H\u00f4tel, Gustav Adolfs torg (the square in front of the Royal Opera),\u00a0Charles\u00a0XII Square\u00a0(a park behind the Opera),\u00a0the\u00a0Nobel Prize Museum, Sergels torg\u00a0(a central square), the Swedish Museum of Performing Arts, Skeppsholmen\u00a0(an island near the city centre), Soltorget\u00a0(a square above Sergels torg), the City Hall, the City Museum,\u00a0Storkyrkan (Stockholm Cathedral), Str\u00f6mparterren and the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Participating artists and lighting designers:\u00a0<\/strong>Atelier BK, Chevalvert, Irina My Ahrenstedt, Ivan Wahren, Juan Funentes, Light Spray, Limelight, Lucion M\u00e9dia, Miguel Chevalier, Rethread, Studio Toer, Theaterpixels and Valentine Isaeus-Berlin as well as several universities and colleges.<\/p>\n The full programme can be found at:\u00a0https:\/\/nobelweeklights.se\/?lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n