Those long winter days of darkness in Reykjavík are set to be illuminated magnificently at the city’s next annual Winter Lights Festival. From 5 - 14 February 2015, the festival promises a superb collection of sparkling events, all delivered with our customary commitment to quality and diversity.
Light events and celebrations have always been an integral part of the Winter Lights Festival; however, to make the most of our days of darkness and to accentuate further the extraordinary contrasts presented during the Icelandic winter season, additional prominence will be placed on all events dedicated to light-art and beautiful illuminations.
With each new festival we seek not only to underscore the importance of the event as a celebration of light, which is visually stunning and continuously inventive, but also to oversee its continued growth and ensure that our amazing days of darkness and the radiance of Reykjavik’s Winter Lights Festival attracts the attention of the world!
In pride of place at the next annual Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival will be a number of sensational works of light-art, all sponsored by the Scandinavian art and culture fund Kultur Kontakt Nord. These highly anticipated art commissions, which will also be exhibited in both Torshavn and Manchester, include pieces by: Tine Bech (Denmark); Inuk Silis Høegh (Greenland), Arild M. Kalseth (Norway) and Amelie Deschamps (France); Kitty Von-Sometime (UK); Kristján Kristjánsson and Örvar Halldórsson (Iceland) and Ulf Pederson (UK).