Amsterdam Light Festival is coming again from the 30th of November 2017 until the 21st of January 2018 and the city centre of Amsterdam will be transformed into the biggest open light museum with artworks and installations made by contemporary artists, designers and architects enlightening the canals and the Marineterre in Amsterdam.
35 artworks, among them is ‘thinline’ the site-specific by Ai Weiwei, who questions the concept of borders by creating a seven kilometers long light line representing a border through the city.
“We are very proud of the international line-up of Amsterdam Light Festival. Every year we welcome the international top on the art and design spectrum. Most of the Dutch participants are also active on an international level as well.” quoted Lennart Booij, creative director.
Star of the 6th edition is the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei; his artwork will span over a distance of 6.5 kilometres and encompasses the entire water exposition.
With ‘thinline’ Ai Weiwei challenges viewers to think about the meaning of borders, figuratively as well as literally. Who determines a border? Do they protect or exclude?
Thinline limited edition
Ai Weiwei created an artwork especially for Amsterdam Light Festival in a limited and signed edition of 100 pieces. Available through Amsterdam Light Festival. The profit of the series contributes to the realization of Weiwei’s artwork ‘thinline’ that has a prominent role during the festival. On the 29th of November there is a special meet & greet with the artists, who delivers the series after the festival.
The dimensions of ‘thinline, limited edition’ are 60 x 45 x 15 centimetres. The artworks will be signed and delivered with a certificate of authenticity. With pre-subscription the price of the artwork is € 2.500, including VAT + shipping costs. (For more information jorna@amsterdamlightfestival.com ).
Artworks on the water.
English participants of the water exposition of Amsterdam Light Festial are artist Rona Lee and Studio Balmond. From Kosovo there is Driton Selmani and also Bagus Pandega from Indonesia contributes. Dutch artists and studios are Lambert Kamps, Floriaan Ganzevoort, Viktor Engbers, Paul Vendel & Sandra de Wolf, Claes Meijer, Lynne Leegte, VENIVIDIMULTIPLEX, Lighting Design Academy, VOUW, HOH Architecten and Gerard Slokker & Ludy Feyen. The United States are represented by Lauren Ewing and Ben Zamora, from Belgium design agency ACTLD from Koert Vermeulen creates an artwork and work of the German Claudia Reh is also to be admired.
Artworks on land.
From The Netherlands Peter Vink, Vinny Jones, Helmut Dick, Lidy Six, AlexP, Nick Verstand & Sjoerd Ter Borg, Bas Peeters, Verena Hall, Hanna Betsema and the Amsterdam Creative Industries Nework participitate on the land exposition on the Marineterrein Amsterdam. From Japan there are Takeo Sugamata and Yasuhiro Chida and also the Italian ATI Suffix delivers a contribution. In addition there are artworks by Reanne Niceforo & Phil Sutherland from Canada, Moritz Waldemeyer and Liubov Moskvina from Germany and there is work by the Iranian artists Shima Jahani, Zoha Khaniki & Sina Hasanlou.
