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WHEN NIGHT FALLS OVER SMÖGEN, THE LIGHT COMES ALIVE
PHILIPP FRANK / LITHOGENESIS - commissioned för Island Of Light 2025
Island of Light is an international light art festival where Smögen's cliffs, sea, boathouses, and horizon become the stage for site-specific and interactive works by artists from all over the world.
Welcome to a unique light festival created together with nature..
MIGUEL CHEVALIER
POST- NATURAL: LIVING PLANKTON
A monumental digital ecosystem projected directly onto Smögen’s pink granite. Inspired by plankton – the ocean’s blue lung – a scenery emerges at the intersection of nature, myths, science, and technology.
Music: Claude Micheli
HOW DO YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE LIGHT?
NIGHT LIGHT WALK
Experience the light art as darkness reveals the landscape.
DAY LIGHT WALK
Explore the place, the materials, and the stories behind the works in daylight.
FROM THE SEA
Discover the festival from the water – where the cliffs, artworks, and horizon are seen from a whole new perspective.
OPEN SKY CINEMA / SPECIAL EVENTS
Evenings, encounters, and experiences under the open sky.
GUIDED TOURS
Guided tours and meetings that deepen the experience of the artists, the place and the works.
THIS YEAR’S ARTISTS
EMMA RÖNNHOLM
FINLANDEmma Rönnholm is a visual artist, working predominately with sculpture, installation, kinetic and light art. She likes to set her works in motion using simple motorised mechanisms, tension, optical illusions or light. The pieces are often made of recycled everyday materials. Humour, DIY and a certain meditative rhythm define her artistic oeuvre. Rönnholm obtained her MA in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2011.
ROBERT SOCHACKI
POLANDWorking within the light art frame Sochacki comments and interprets topic from everydaylife. He looks into social and political perspectives and tries to uncover some relationships between the artwork and the space where it is presented. By creating artistic codes and contextualize them in a site specific setting he invites the viewers to re-discover and re-define their everyday experience. His artistic resaerche is focused on deconstruction the division between the artwork and the viewer. Going beyond the tradicional pedagogy of a master/student, he is lecturer (PhD) at art academies.
MIGUEL CHEVALIER
FRANCEFrench digital and virtual artist. Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has used computers as a means of expression in the field of the visual arts. He has established himself internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art.
THOSE GUYS LIGHTING
LATVIAWe are a collective of engineers, lighting designers, and programmers based in Riga, Latvia. Since our founding in 2018, we’ve evolved from a small studio into a recognized name in the European light-art scene. Our projects have been featured at major events across Europe and beyond. Driven by passion and precision, we are committed to delivering bold, uncompromising light-based experiences.
CRAIG & ANTON
WALESFrequent collaborators Craig Morrison and Ant Dickinson are Wales-based creative practitioners working across interdisciplinary fields. Morrison’s practice moves fluidly between fashion, production, costume design, curation, and creative direction, while Dickinson’s work is grounded in music, media design, and projection. For this installation, they are joined by Norwegian dancer Ann-Kathrin Granhus, embodying the central role of the Shaman.
ANDREW SCOTT
SWEDENAndrew Scott has been a teacher in various aspects of Media Production since the turn of the millennium. Since 2010 he has run the Audiovisual Production program at Höskolan Dalarna. The education has also developed Scott's own work and for the third time he is exhibiting a work at Island of Light.
ERIC LANGENDOEN
NETHERLANDSEric Langendoen is a designer, performer and visual artist. His work varies from site specific theatre to interactive installations. The works take many forms, but they are always situated in the triangle between music, theatre and visual arts. He tries to engage the audience in a way that they can interact with or become part of the work.
ANNI LAUKKA
FINLANDAnni Laukka (b. 1982, Kokkola, Finland) is a contemporary artist working across sculpture, installation, and light-based practices. Her work explores how material, memory, and lived experience intersect, transforming found and sourced materials into installations and sculptures that carry both physical and documentary presence.
ILLUMINOS
UKIlluminos are brothers Matt and Rob Vale, who for over 10 years have been creating visually inventive, memorable projection artworks and experiences. Our works range from very large scale illumination to small scale imagery, but always working to create something unique and specific to location and viewer.
THEODORA "DORINA" SALTI
GREECETheodora "Dorina" Salti is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland, and a drama teacher researching the educational potential of immersive experiences in interactive audiovisual installations and performances. For more of Theodoras work, visit childrenoftheartsworld.com
PAS
SWEDENUnder the direction of EMMA- KARA NILSSON – lighting designer and lighting artist with a focus on the expression of the place/room. With nature as a source of inspiration, my artistic works take shape.
ALEKSANDRA STRATIMIROVIC
SWEDENAleksandra Stratimirovic is a light artist whose practice explores the spatial, emotional, and social dimensions of light in public space. She works across installation, site-specific intervention, and public art, creating works that engage architecture, perception, and collective experience. Aleksandra has been part of the creative team behind Island of Light since its start.
SMÖGEN IS THE STAGE. THE SEA IS THE SPACE. THE CLIFFS MAKE THE CANVAS.
Island of Light merges when art meets the environment. Smögen and its pink granite cliffs, the boathouses, the quays, the sea, and the open sky are not just backdrops – they are natural parts of all the artworks. Enjoy the scenes where light gains scale, direction, echo, and intensification.
THE CLIFFS
Natural stone surfaces become monumental canvases.
THE OCEAN
The water reflects, extends and amplifies the light.
THE DARKNESS
As daylight fades, the island transforms.
FIND THE LIGHT
Follow the route through Smögen and experience how each artwork lights up its part of the island. Take your time along the way and return after darkness. Open our interactive
map for more information about the artworks and the festival area:
FIND THE LIGHT
Follow the route through Smögen and experience how each artwork lights up its part
of the island. Take your time along the way and return after darkness. Open our interactive
map for more information about the artworks and the festival area:
Open the map
in your phone:
THE ART ALSO SHEDS LIGHT ON WHAT WE SHOULD CARE FOR.
Island of Lights is a tribute to the place – but also a reminder of its fragility. Through art, light, and local collaborations, it turns attention to the sea, the materials, and the responsibility of living and creating with nature.
COME FOR THE LIGHT. STAY FOR SMÖGEN.
Make a great evening of your visit. Stroll along the quays, eat by the sea, follow the light out to the cliffs, and let the island transform as darkness falls.
CREATED BY ARTISTS, LOCAL FORCES, AND THE ISLAND ITSELF.
Island of Light was initiated in 2018 and has developed into what it is today thanks to creative artists, generous partners, volunteers, local businesses, and visitors. Kind people who want to see Smögen shine far beyond the summer season. Island of Light is produced by the non-profit association "Smögen Art-light festival" under the artistic direction of founder Dulce Sales Ahlberg.
CREATIVE TEAM
PROJECT MANAGER,
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
& CURATOR
DULCE SALES AHLBERG
CO-CURATORS
ALEKSANDRA STRATIMIROVIC
ANDREW SCOTT
LIGHT DESIGNER & TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
EMMA-KARA NILSSON
BUILDING MASTER
LARS KINNMALM
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
CHRIS WILKENS
COMMUNICATION & MEDIA
BJORN BERTOFT
SOCIAL MEDIA
FELIX LUNDQUIST
MAIN SPONSORS
