Belgrade of Light
A new and unique cultural happening in Serbia. It is a festival dedicated to light, a platform for creative innovations, experiments, artistic and professional discussions and idea exchange on the subject of lighting. The festival’s goal is to gather extinguished individuals from all around the world in Belgrade and Serbia and to open up a completely new perspective in treating the light – whether it concerns an artistic expression and design, energy saving or simply identity of a city and visions of a brighter future.
Already in the first year, Belgrade is proudly entering a shiny web of festivals that exist in the world and that have been nourishing this tradition for a long time. Among them are Lyon, Tallinn, Helsinki, Lisbon, Eindhoven, etc.
Through artistic interventions in space, exhibitions, lectures and workshops, in the first five days of this year’s exhibition, Belgrade of Light will open up a completely new experience and present a different image of the city.
The festival is initiated by Aleksandra Stratimirovic and organised by Cultural Front Belgrade, with the help of Belgrade Lighting Detectives and in cooperation with all leading Serbian companies and institutions that are dealing with lighting.
This year, the festival is introducing us to international group “Transnational Lighting Detectives”. Founding members of this group will gather in Belgrade and hold their annual symposium on the subject of lighting identity of a city. The workshop will take place for students of Belgrade University who will, together with the guests from Stockholm Lighting Laboratory and members of Tokyo Art Academy study Belgrade through the eyes of “lighting detectives”, mentored by well known world lighting designers. As an introduction to what is waiting for us in years to come, the exhibitions and presentations of the partner festivals “Superflux” from Lyon, “Hansaflux” from Tallinn and “Svetlobna gverila” from Ljubljana will be held.