Nobel Week Lights 2023
Nobel Week Lights 2023 took place between 2–10 December and featured light art installations across central Stockholm.
Discover the artworks below.
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Autofagi
The artwork “Autofagi” is a collaborative art installation, inspired by the biological process of autophagy which is when cells consume themselves.
Jönköping University and The Royal College of Music, Autofagi. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Circadian Waves: Resonances
The artwork “Circadian Waves: Resonances “combines light and sound, inspired by the Nobel Prize awarded research into our bodies’ internal clocks.
NAVET (KTH, KMH, SKH and Konstfack), Circadian Waves: Resonances. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Colour Your World
The artwork “Colour Your World” is a colourful, playful and mesmerizing experience, developed through an experimental cooperation.
Irina My, Colour Your World. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Diorama – The Black Hole
The artwork “Diorama – The Black Hole” is an installation inspired by one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe.
Valentine Isaeus-Berlin, Diorama – The Black Hole. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Firefly Field
“Firefly Field” is a mesmerizing light installation consisting of hundreds of lights and refers to the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Studio Toer, Firefly Field. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Green Sea Rising
The artwork “Green Sea Rising” is a flowing waterscape, created by light and inspired by a poem by Tomas Tranströmer.
Simon Hagegård och Ivan Wahren, Green Sea Rising. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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History in Light
The artwork “History in Light” is an homage to the history of Stockholm through nature and art.
Les Ateliers BK, History in Light. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Kick it
Niels Bohr’s atomic model revolutionized science. In “Kick it”, light jumps between balls, mimicking how electrons move around an atomic nucleus.
Limelight, Kick it. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Kinetic Perspective
“Kinetic Perspective” is a complex and yet minimalistic and eye-catching light installation, connected to the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Juan Fuentes Studio, Kinetic Perspective. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Magic Carpets 2023
“Magic Carpets 2023” is an immersive and interactive light carpet that responds to the audience’s movements.
Miguel Chevalier, Magic Carpets 2023. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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moonGARDEN
“moonGARDEN” revisits the childhood phenomenon of shadowplay and the magic with which stories can be told.
Lucion, MoonGARDEN. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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[re|in]verse
“[re|in]verse” visualizes the activity inside scientists’ computers when they work with complex matrices.
![[re|in]verse](https://nobelprizemuseum.se/images/150214-landscape-large.jpg)
re|thread och Jaime Reyes, [re|in]verse. Photo: Benoît Derrier
![[re|in]verse](https://nobelprizemuseum.se/images/150214-landscape-medium.jpg)
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Rythmus
“Rythmus” is an interactive installation that makes a vital and intimate phenomenon visible: the heartbeat.
Chevalvert, Rythmus. Photo: Chevalvert
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Spectral Scaffold
The artwork “Spectral Scaffold “is a light installation inspired by the research awarded for enabling insight into the motion of electrons within matter.
Annelie Wihlborg, Carl Folkesson, Fanny Johansson and Joel Eriksson, Spectral Scaffold. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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System in Randomness
The artwork “System in Randomness” is a large-scale projection inspired by research into our climate and the complex systems that control it.
Light-Spray Visual, System in Randomness. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Waves
“Waves” is a dynamic light installation that visualizes real-time weather data through wave movements.
Theaterpixels, Waves. Photo: Benoît Derrier
NOBEL WEEK LIGHTS
A light art festival inspired by the Nobel Prize
5–13 December 2026 | Free admission