Llum BCN is an annual light arts festival held in Barcelona, Spain. It is celebrated since 2012 every February in Barcelona's neighborhood Poblenou.Llum BCN to intertwine architecture and lighting installations Retrieved 2022-04-22. It features a series of light installations and shows.Website of the annual Light festival Llum BCN Retrieved 2022-03-02.
Concept Llum BCN, Light Barcelona in English, extends across various key points in the Poblenou neighborhood, starting at the Design Museum of Barcelona at Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes. The installations are spread across the neighborhood and are visible from nightfall until midnight. The 2024 festival edition expands with a new axis, including spaces such as the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, L'Auditori, and the Encants market.Llum BCN 2024 edition Retrieved 2024-02-05.
Large historic buildings, old factory chimneys and industrial plants, but also the modern Torre Glòries are illuminated by large-scale projections and audio-visual displays in the Poblenou neighborhood. Many of the festival's light displays include the use of technology such as virtual reality and AI.Llum BCN, Art and Public Space Retrieved 2022-04-22.
Artists Llum BCN has featured artists such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Julio Le Parc, Luke Jerram, Ulf Langheinrich, United Visual Artists, Kurt Hentschlager, Trevor Paglen, Chila Kumari Burman, Vera Molnár and Catalonia's Antoni Arola as well as local schools of art, design, illumination, and architecture.Llum BCN aims to light up Barcelona cityscape Retrieved 2022-03-02.Llum BCN 2023 edition Retrieved 2023-02-22.
The 2025 edition includes an AI installation of Joan Fontcuberta about the verses of the Book of Genesis, generating virtual landscapes from the emergence of light and darkness via the landscapes of the Garden of Eden to the destruction of Gaza. A robotic voice recites the verses in several languages.Joan Fontcuberta: Gènesi.IA Retrieved 2025-02-05.
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