Artworks in the 2023 edition of the festival
Nobel Week Lights 2023
Nobel Week Lights 2023 took place between 2–10 December, showing light art installations across central Stockholm.
Read more about each artwork 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-small.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
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.