The artists were inspired by the 2022 Nobel prize in Medicine that was awarded to Svante Pääbo for “his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.
Pääbo’s work sparked the artists’ fantasy, resulting in an art installation inspired by DNA-spirals, relics and ancient monuments, and how all of them in a way are messages from long gone ancestors. They find it both poetic and intriguing how Pääbo’s discoveries reveal how historical interactions affect our present physiology and lay the foundation for future innovations.
Nobel Week Lights
Lighting up Stockholm during the darkest time of the year, Nobel Week Lights is an outdoor light art festival accessible for everyone.
Lina Blass, Tora Kirchmeier and Maria Nyholm
Lina Blass, Tora Kirchmeier and Maria Nyholm are designers and alumni from Beckmans College of Design. The group finds a common interest in collective processes, spatial design and storytelling.
For Nobel Week Lights the collective are presenting a site specific art installation, where students from Beckmans Visual Communication programme are contributing by interpreting the stories further in illustrated light signs.
Illustrations by: Amanda Artberger, Frank Torsson Szyber, Gabriella Roos Redemo, Lina Sundkvist Strindberg, Måns Horning and Rebecca Lagerstedt.
Nobel Week Lights
Art lighting up Stockholm
Read about Nobel Week Lights, a free light art festival taking place in Stockholm during the darkest time of the year.