Media interventions and light art in the urban space of Hanover
With the realisation of the multimedia project Lichtzeit-Labor II, the Kunstverein Kunsthalle Hannover is following up on the successful project of the same name from 2022. While Lichtzeit-Labor I focussed more on general experimental research in the field of new auditory and visual media, Lichtzeit-Labor II focuses on the interaction between humans and nature: communication and energy transfer.
With various interventions, Lichtzeit-Labor II presents unusual artistic perspectives on the border between science, philosophy and utopia, using public space as a predominantly interactive, digital research medium. The accompanying programme includes the virtual and augmented reality project AR Journey Futuring by artist Vira DG (Ukraine/Turkey), which will provide impulses for urban development with numerous workshops in the Kunsthalle Faust and the Aufhof.
With various interventions, Lichtzeit-Labor II presents unusual artistic perspectives on the border between science, philosophy and utopia, using public space as a predominantly interactive, digital research medium. The virtual and augmented reality project AR Journey Futuring by the artist Vira DG (Ukraine/Turkey) is offered as an accompanying programme, which provides impulses for urban development with numerous workshops in the Kunsthalle Faust and in the Aufhof.Lichtzeit-Labor II thus primarily develops a compilation of site-specific works with an experimental-explorative character and takes up current discourses of the “life sciences” around concepts of animate and inanimate nature, the world and the role of man. In early autumn, around twenty artists from Lower Saxony and beyond will be using new media such as augmented and virtual reality, generative art, video mapping and light projections to create a presence for over a month around Kröpcke Square, in the Kunsthalle and at and in Kesselhaus Linden.
The project Lichtzeit-Labor II thus enables interested visitors as well as random passers-by to gain insights into the transformation of everyday social reality into an essentially subversive and unabashedly beautiful language of art.
Lichtzeit-Labor II
Media interventions and light art in the urban space of Hanover
Total exhibition duration:
Tuesday, 29 August, until Sunday, 1 October 2023
Kunsthalle Faust
Friday, 1 September, until Sunday, 10 September 2023
Opening hours: Thu to Sun 4-8 pm
Admission: 5 euros, reduced: 3 euros (admission also applies to the Kesselhaus)
Vernissage: Thursday, 31 August, 6 pm
Official opening of the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Faust
Special opening hours during the Zinnober-Kunstvolkslauf:
Saturday, 2 September: 12-8 p.m., free admission
Sunday, 3 September: 12-20 hrs, free admission
VR workshops with Vira DG:
Saturday, 9 September, 10am-12pm (English/German)
Saturday, 9 September, 2-4 pm (Ukrainian)
Kesselhaus Linden
Friday, 1 September, until Sunday, 1 October 2023
Opening hours: Thu to Sun 8 pm – 2 pm (except 29 and 30 September, on 23 September from approx. 9 pm)
Admission: 5 euros, reduced: 3 euros (admission also applies to the Kunsthalle)
Vernissage: Thursday, 31 August, 7:30 pm
Special events:
Saturday, 2 September, 18:00: Champagne reception, 10 years Kunstverein Kunsthalle Hannover e.V.
Saturday, 2 September, 19:30: LiKuS event – light art, projections and sounds
Admission: 10 euros, reduced: 8 euros
Saturday, 2 September, 19:30: Performance “Black Box” by Max Elzholz / Trampelfâd
Saturday, 9 September, 19:30: Performance “Black Box” by Max Elzholz / Trampelfâd
Kröpcke
Tuesday, 29 August, until Sunday, 1 October 2023
Opening hours: 24/7
Admission: free
Vernissage: Monday, 28 August, 6 pm
Organiser: Location:
With kind support:
In cooperation with:
FAUST-Stiftung