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FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

Award 2025

The Festival of Lights continues its tradition and will once again honor the best video artists with the Festival of Lights Awards 2025 under the motto “Let’s shine together.” 23 international artists from 18 countries will present their impressive visions of freedom on Berlin’s most beautiful landmarks.

Winner

Brandenburg Gate

Felix Frank Studio | Pattern of Infinity

“Patterns of Infinity” transforms the Brandenburg Gate into a fractal universe of golden, orange, and red hues. Complex, repetitive animations spread across the surfaces and, in combination with the frequency of 432 Hz, immerse viewers in a fascinating experience of unity, vitality, and transformation—a luminous interplay of light, color, and infinite patterns that unfolds in a kinetic celebration

Laszlo Zsolt Bordos | Modulation

Modulation—a site-specific projection mapping artwork created for the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin—explores the elemental power of light and shadow as key tools for shaping our perception of space, volume, and meaning. Modulation demonstrates how the simple interaction of light and shadow can alter monumentality, dissolve mass, and reveal hidden spatial relationships within architecture.

PANI PAWLOSKY | ALL ONE

ALL ONE is not a story—it is a musical score written in light. Under the musical direction of the award-winning Polish duo ZIMA STULECIA (Macin Rak “Cancer G” and Marek Pędziwiatr “Latarnik”), the Brandenburg Gate becomes an instrument: columns as metronomes, arches as resonating bodies, bodies finding the beat. The piece has no fixed beginning and no fixed end – it is like opening an unknown door and catching a glimpse of something that is already in motion.

Winner

Berlin TV-Tower

Illuminos Matt and Rob Vale | Rapunzel – The Light of a Teardrop

The timeless tale of Rapunzel, trapped forever in her towering tower, is reimagined for the Festival of Light. An ancient stone tower from a fairy tale rises high into the sky. Shimmering stained glass windows glow on its surface, arcs of light through which the silhouettes of Rapunzel can be seen.

Henry Hu | Inner Garden

Inner Garden is a deeply personal journey of light that reflects the search for self amid imbalance, exhaustion, and doubt. Like a garden pushing through cracks, each scene transforms the Berlin TV Tower into a vertical landscape of emergence. Through expression and perseverance, a luminous inner world takes shape—revealing healing, clarity, and a rediscovered sense of identity.

Sabine Burchard & Kilian Feusi | pen pleasures

“pen pleasures” explores the universal need for expression, from monumental projections on Berlin’s TV tower to intimate, hand-drawn creations. Animated 3D pens interact with imaginative worlds of drawing and show how even the simplest forms can have powerful meaning.

Hotaru Visual Guerilla, Jone Vizcaino & Ander Ugartemendia | ARCHIOME

Archiome understands architecture as a living system that grows and adapts like a biological organism. This artwork translates this idea into a futuristic, immersive experience in which organic forms and technology merge, creating evolving structures that respond to their environment. Inspired by nature’s ability to adapt and change, Archiome explores the future possibility of the boundaries between architecture and nature disappearing.

Pirate Pixie | Tale of Balance

“The Tale of Balance” is a fairy tale that aims to connect two important themes: environmental destruction and mental health/well-being. Both problems can be traced back to our lost connection with nature. Everything in nature is biologically connected, so why do we believe that we are not? In science, this is referred to as quantum entanglement.

Vanessa Cardui | Wonderland

“Wonderland” transforms Berlin’s television tower into a moving fantasy world. It all starts with a moment of chance – a glass of brush water tips over and sets off a surreal chain reaction. Colors run, lines blur, drawings begin to take on a life of their own.

Winner

Charlottenburg Palace

The Fox, The Folks | Garden of Biolumina

A sleeping forest, cloaked in silvery moonlight, guards its secrets in silence. From the night descends a radiant orb, a glow of inspiration that awakens calm eyes and draws faint light from the shadows. A butterfly, born of transformation, carries this glow to the heart of stone, where a large flower begins to bloom. Its light spreads like ripples in water across the walls, awakening long-forgotten vines, blossoms, and radiant life.

ANIONA VISION | PLAY

PLAY is a work about the rediscovery of color as an emotional state, movement, and memory. Inspired by the free visual language of childhood and the avant-garde aesthetics of the early 20th century, the animation unfolds as a continuous transition—from the shadow of a forgotten building captured on vintage film, through a flowing chromatic choreography, to a moment of synthesis in which each color becomes an emotional homage—an act of artistic remembrance.

RE:SORB

With THE CATHEDRAL OF THE INFINITE SCROLL, RE:SORB presents a critical examination of digital sensory overload. The façade is transformed into a cathedral of data, likes, and algorithms until it collapses into darkness, creating space for organic light and a return to the essentials.

Winner

Hotel de Rome

flora&faunavisions | Utopian Vertical Garden

What if the city could blossom? What if glass and stone were not cold and rigid, but opened up to color, growth, and light? Utopian Garden invites us on a radiant journey into this possibility—a vision of harmony where science, art, and nature come together to create a future full of beauty and imagination.

Berliner Dom

Archan Nair | Illuminate

The artwork “Illuminate” is an exploration of the self and symbolizes the harmony of consciousness. Echoing frames this personal enlightenment as a call for collective unity. The work suggests that the path to individuation is not a lonely one, but a path to creating a shared radiance.

OKO | Wizards of Tomorrow

In every age, there are guardians of light—magicians not of fantasy, but of spirit and power. They carry within them the hidden wisdom of nature, memory, and dreams, weaving their light into the fabric of our future.

Sabine Hecher | pretty pink alcea

My artistic contribution is a bright, colorful collage of pressed flowers and leaves from a hollyhock, picked from the sidewalk in Berlin’s Mitte district, mixed with illustrations.

EPER DIGITAL STUDIO | POETIC STRUCTURES VOL.3

Our new art series is based on simplicity, rhythm, and the pulsating, dynamic, constantly changing harmony of primitive geometric shapes and primary colors. In terms of colors, black and white symbolize the duality of life. We use the three basic colors yellow, blue, and red. These colors are the primary colors; they cannot be mixed, but all other colors can be created from them.

EPER DIGITAL STUDIO | POETIC STRUCTURES VOL.3

Otto Schade | Let’s shine together too

This design aims to incorporate some animals that also wanted to shine at this fantastic and world-famous festival of lights. So it’s not just about the people on this planet. Animals are also taking part and striking their best poses for the photo.

Julia Specht | Neon Fish

People are capable of finding light even in the darkest depths. Glowing neon fish illuminate the deathly silence of the deep sea—like good company on gloomy days.

Susan Gurnee

Daniel Margraf

MP-Studio