Nobel Week Lights 2021
Nobel Week Lights 2021 took place between 4–12 December and featured light art installations across central Stockholm.
Discover the artworks below.
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?
On the facade of Stockholm City Museum thousands of question marks float, in symbiosis like a dance. The artwork “?” is made by artist Eva…
Eva Beierheimer, ?. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Christian Åslund
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“(REATION VIDEO)”
“(REACTION VIDEO)” is a video work where the artists filmed and abstracted their own reacting faces.
Swedish Girls and Jenny Forsgren, “(REACTION VIDEO)”. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Christian Åslund
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Á Marie
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.
Emma Hjortenklev Wassberg, À MARIE. Nobel Week Lights 2021.© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin
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B12
“B12” is a light sculpture inspired by the British chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), who received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Photo: Christian Åslund
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BETWEEN-THE-LINES
“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…
Photo: Christian Åslund
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Dialog
“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…
Photo: Christian Åslund
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Earth from space
“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…
Photo: Christian Åslund
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Fragments of Reality
“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…
Photo: Clément Morin
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Great Minds
“Great minds” is a temporary, dynamic monument that praises the birth of ideas and relates to all creative people.
Photo: Christian Åslund
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Hexx Øne
“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…
Photo: Christian Åslund
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Incandescence
“INCANDESCE” presents a series of monumental works that evoke the ancestor of present day lighting: the incandescent bulb.
Photo: Christian Åslund
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Making Women Visible
“Making Women Visible” shows and pays tribute to women who have been important for progress in politics, economics, literature, physics, and medicine.
Photo: Christian Åslund
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Sender-Receiver
“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…
Photo: Christian Åslund
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Sense Light Swings
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…
Alexander Lervik, Sense Light Swing. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Christian Åslund
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Skyview
With “SKYVIEW” the artist wants to remind us of our own earth’s smallness and fragility in the great and infinite universe.
Photo: Christian Åslund
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Supernova
The artwork “Supernova” pays tribute to the Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 and fills Skeppsholmsbron with shifting lights.
Photo: Christian Åslund
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cyber|glow
“cyber|glow” enchants visitors with a large-scale multi-player game where they learn about Nobel discoveries.
cyber|glow.
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Syzygy
“Syzygy” is inspired by Albert Einstein and his Nobel Prize awarded work on the photoelectric effect, which allows us to distinguish color through light.
Photo: Christian Åslund

NOBEL WEEK LIGHTS
A light art festival inspired by the Nobel Prize
5–13 December 2026 | Free admission