Lichtstadt Feldkirch

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Lichtstadt Feldkirch ("City of Light Feldkirch") is a light art festival in Feldkirch in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It was first held in 2018. It is planned that the festival be held every two years.{{Cite web|title=Lichtstadt Feldkirch {{!}} Feldkirch, Vorarlberg|url=https://www.feldkirch.travel/kultur/festivals/lichtstadt-feldkirch/|access-date=2020-09-07|website=www.feldkirch.travel}}

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The festival

Lichtstadt Feldkirch is a four-day biennial light show in the city of Feldkirch. In the nighttime, light installations are presented at ten different venues. Many of the projects are created for the respective location.{{Cite web |date=2018-10-02 |title=„Lichtstadt“: Kunst und Licht in Feldkirch |url=https://vorarlberg.orf.at/v2/news/stories/2939144/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=vorarlberg.orf.at |language=de}} The installations are free and barrier-free accessible.{{Cite web |last=Tourismus |first=Bodensee Vorarlberg |title=Lichtstadt Feldkirch: Das Festival für Kunst mit Licht in Vorarlberg |url=https://www.feldkirch.travel/aktuelles-aus-feldkirch/lichtstadt-feldkirch-das-festival-fuer-kunst-mit-licht-in-vorarlberg |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Bodensee Vorarlberg Tourismus |language=de}}

"As a scene for light art, the urban space offers numerous unexplored possibilities to experience our present through architecture, light and technology, to break viewing habits or to illuminate the past. [...] Artistic development can be made possible and thus different thematic or technically innovative focal points can be set will." – Lichtstadt Association{{Cite web |title=Über uns - Lichtstadt Feldkirch |url=https://www.lichtstadt.at/ueber-uns/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Lichtstadt |language=de-DE}}

Asynchronous to the main events, the smaller "Spotlight" events have been taking place since 2020, each of which focuses on an artist or a group of artists.{{Cite web |last=red |first=vorarlberg ORF at |date=2020-11-10 |title=Ein Erlebnis der Lichter in Feldkirch |url=https://vorarlberg.orf.at/tv/stories/3075254/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=vorarlberg.ORF.at - Vorarlberg Heute |language=de}}

The festival and the "Spotlight" series are organized by the non-profit association "Lichtstadt", which was founded in 2017.

Timeline

= 2023 =

The 2021 edition will take place from 4–7 October 2023.{{Cite web |date=2021-10-15 |title=Lichtstadt Feldkirch 2021 mit positiver Bilanz {{!}} gsi news |url=https://www.gsi-news.at/2021/10/15/lichtstadt-feldkirch-2021-mit-positiver-bilanz/ |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=gsi-news.at|language=de-DE}}

= 2021 =

The 2021 edition took place from 6–9 October 2021.{{Cite web|title=Festival 2021 - Lichtstadt Feldkirch|url=https://www.lichtstadt.at/festival-2021/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Lichtstadt|language=de-DE}} The international artists and artist collectives OchoReSotto, Peter Kogler, Brigitte Kowanz, David Reumüller, NEON GOLDEN, artificialOwl and DUNDU realized mappings, installations, projections and interactive works in the second edition.{{Cite web |title=Lichtstadt Feldkirch 2021 |url=https://www.feldkirch.at/galerie/lichtstadt-feldkirch-2021 |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=Stadt Feldkirch |language=de-DE}}

= 2020 =

The 2020 edition of the festival was postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19.{{Cite web |title=Anfang Oktober erstrahlt wieder die ganze Stadt Feldkirch: Das Lichtkunstfestival Feldkirch 2021 wird wieder spektakulär |url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/vorarlberg/c-freizeit/das-lichtkunstfestival-feldkirch-2021-wird-wieder-spektakulaer_a4831675 |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=MeinBezirk.at |language=de}}

= 2018 =

The first edition in 2018 was held to celebrate the 800th anniversary year of the city of Feldkirch. It took place from October 3 to 6, 2018. Ten projects by international artists, e.g. Ólafur Elíasson, transformed the old town into a large open-air museum at nightfall. Installations, sculptures, projections on facades and floor as well as laser projections, mappings and light objects were part of the light art festival.{{Cite web |title=Lichtstadt Feldkirch - das neue Lichtkunstfestival im Oktober |url=https://www.vorarlberg.travel/aktivitaet/lichtstadt-feldkirch/ |access-date=2020-09-07 |website=Urlaub in Vorarlberg |language=de-DE}}