Nobel Week Lights 2021

With “Á Marie”, Emma Hjortenklev Wassberg pays tribute to Marie Curie for her outstanding work at a time when women were opposed and discriminated against.

“B12” is a light sculpture inspired by the British chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), who received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

“BETWEEN-THE-LINES” at Stockholm School of Economics (Handelshögskolan) is inspired by Bertil Ohlin and James E. Meade who in 1977 jointly won the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

“Dialog” is a light installation on Strömparterren that was inspired by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009. Charles K. Kao then received the prize for “groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”.

“Earth from space” shows extreme phenomena in space will be explored as well as how all life on our little planet is impacted by the light that comes from hundreds of millions of kilometers away.

“Fragments of Reality” is a sustainable site-specific installation at Stortorget that works all hours of the day without electric energy. It uses small mirrors and the wind to reflect the environment – the natural light during the day and the artificial light of the city lamps at night.

“Great minds” is a temporary, dynamic monument that praises the birth of ideas and relates to all creative people.

“Hexx Øne” is an homage to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 for their research and for inventing the LED light.

“INCANDESCE” presents a series of monumental works that evoke the ancestor of present day lighting: the incandescent bulb.

“Making Women Visible” shows and pays tribute to women who have been important for progress in politics, economics, literature, physics, and medicine.

“Riddle 102” is inspired by Alfred Nobles patent number 102 (dynamite) and by his poeam You say I am a riddle.

“Scandinavian Pain” is a pink neon sculpture of twelve meters created by Ragnar Kjartansson.

“Sender-Receiver” is based on photosynthesis and the cyclical motions of carbon on Earth and is inspired by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961 which was awarded to Melvin Calvin.

Nobel Week Lights 2021 Alexander Lervik “Sense Light Swings” is a light fixture that is also a moving, eye-catching work of art. Alexander got the…

With “SKYVIEW” the artist wants to remind us of our own earth’s smallness and fragility in the great and infinite universe.

The artwork “Supernova” pays tribute to the Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 and fills Skeppsholmsbron with shifting lights.

“See Colour” highlights the basics of the physical properties of light, and make them easier to understand.

“Tunnel Vision” serves as a portal into a different way of understanding public space and our role in it, a different state of Stockholm.

“Syzygy” is inspired by Albert Einstein and his Nobel Prize awarded work on the photoelectric effect, which allows us to distinguish color through light.