Nobel Week Lights 2025
Nobel Week Lights 2025 took place between 6–14 December.
The festival featured light art installations in central Stockholm and Tensta.
Artwork programme city
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21.09
Named after the date of the International Day of Peace (21.09, September 21), the immersive artwork “21.09” is dedicated to the theme of peace.
Conceived as a visual and sonic fresco, it sheds light on the complexity of peace as a process, emphasising that peace is always more difficult to build than war. Through sound citations by Nobel Peace Prize laureates, 21.09 and the artists Les Ateliers BK, explores how peace arises from dialogue, exchange, the ability to listen, […]
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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AstroField
“AstroField” is created through a collaboration between classes 5A and 5C at Husbygårdsskolan and students from Hyper Island’s Digital Creative programme.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Divine Geometry
“Divine Geometry” explores the complexity and harmony of the natural world, inviting viewers to sense the hidden patterns that shape existence.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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The Door
“The Door” is located in two places, in front of the Parliament House, and in Tensta. The artwork is inspired by Tomas Tranströmers poetry.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Geist
“Geist” is an artwork inspired by nature’s most elusive elementary particle; neutrino particle.
Geist is an octagonal carousel-shaped artwork that uses a mirror illusion to create a suspended spherical object of light. The installation is interactive; only by the proximity and movement of humans does the suspended sphere of light come to life. Individual LED modules start to flicker and glimmer in the presence of people. To Geist, […]
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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GLOW
“GLOW” is a monumental interactive light installation that mirrors the moon’s celestial dance.
In GLOW, the lunar phases around the Earth are portrayed in a way that allows the audience to play with, control, and interact with the moon’s light and movements. Inspired by the moon as a nocturnal guiding star, the work embodies its timeless allure. GLOW connects to the work of author Yasunari Kawabata (Nobel Prize […]
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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In a Heartbeat
“In a Heartbeat” bears witness to humanity’s ability to make a change together.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Limina
“Limina” consists of five gates, representing the Nobel Prizes awarded annually in Stockholm, in the fields of science and literature.
Artist Victoria Verseau’s work Limina reflects on how the Nobel Prize-awarded discoveries have opened doors to what cannot be seen with the naked eye and helped us understand the world. At the same time, new breakthroughs always raise questions. New knowledge has led humanity into bright, life-saving spaces, but also into dark and destructive ones. […]
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Moments of Peace
The illuminated benches that make up “Moments of Peace” form both a literal and symbolic space for rest, thought, and dialogue.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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One Way or Another
The artwork “One Way or Another” is inspired by Peace Prize laureate Ralph Bunche and a quote from his Nobel Peace Prize lecture.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Peace by Peace
“Peace by Peace” is created and built by students from the Lighting Design programme at Jönköping University.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Pro Pace
The artwork “Pro Pace”, projected on Stockholm City Hall, celebrates Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
The Pro Pace is taken from the inscription “Pro pace et fraternitate gentium” on the reverse side of the Nobel Peace Prize medal, meaning “For peace and brotherhood among men”. The artwork highlights a selection of peace prize laureates as well as references the two locations closely connected to the Nobel Prize: Stockholm and Oslo. […]
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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Royal Sky
“Royal Sky” is a laser installation, inspired by the natural phenomenon of the northern lights.
Jānis Petersons, Royal Sky. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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TETRA
“TETRA” is a poetic representation of the different forces surrounding us. The artwork draws inspiration from the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
Artwork programme Tensta
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Alma de Artista
In the work Alma de Artista, the artist Nachla Libre weaves together excerpts from poetry written by young people from the local community with her own words and unique graphic language.
© Nobel Prize Outreach Photo: Dan Lepp
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By the Sea
The installation “By the Sea” reflects on themes of loss, displacement, identity and hope.
© Nobel Prize Outreach Photo: Dan Lepp
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The Door
“The Door” is located in two places, in front of the Parliament House, and in Tensta. The artwork is inspired by Tomas Tranströmers poetry.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Benoît Derrier
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HEXX
The installation “HEXX” vibrates with lights and music, symbolizing energy and growth.
© Nobel Prize Outreach Photo: Dan Lepp
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Streetlamp Grove Tensta
“Streetlamp Grove Tensta” is an interactive artwork inspired by the work of Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1913.
© Nobel Prize Outreach Photo: Dan Lepp
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The Light We Reflect
The “Light We Reflect” is a site-specific installation that transforms Taxingeplan into a participant-driven landscape of light and reflection.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Dan Lepp
NOBEL WEEK LIGHTS
A light art festival inspired by the Nobel Prize
Free admission
Free admission to the festival.
A Stockholm tradition
The festival is held in December during Nobel week since 2020.