The Karlsruhe SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE are an annual highlight in the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe. Every evening for around four weeks in August and September, the 170-metre-long façade of Karlsruhe's baroque palace becomes a grand stage for artistic contributions to projection mapping.
BBBank Award 2024
The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe presents the annual BBBank Award for artistic projection mapping for the Karlsruhe SCHLOSS
LICHTSPIELE 2024 program in cooperation with BBBank presents the annual BBBank Award for artistic projection mapping. In 2024, the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE will be referencing the 75th anniversary of the German Basic Law with the theme "Law and Democracy".
As the seat of the Federal Constitutional Court and the Federal Court of Justice, Karlsruhe itself is the seat of law in Germany. 73 artists and collectives from all over the world applied, including from European countries as well as Iran, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico and Lebanon. "We are delighted to be supporting artists from all over the world with the BBBank Award for the fourth time. The creativity, passion and innovation with which our award winners have impressed the jury is already increasing my anticipation for the Schlosslichtspiele 2024," says Oliver Lüsch, Chairman of the BBBank Management Board, who is himself a member of the jury.
The winner of the BBBank Award 2024 is the Ukrainian media artist Julia Shamsheieva, with second prize going to Julian Hölscher. Third place went to the RESORB collective. A total of 73 artists and collectives from all over the world entered the competition.
Julia Shamsheieva lives in Odessa, Ukraine, and works as a media artist with video mapping, light and interactive installations as well as AR and VR. Last year, she was the winner of the iMapp Festival in Bucharest (2023). She received the BBBank Award for her work "Liberty Enlightening the World", in which she deals with democracy, law and the responsibility of the individual based on the American Statue of Liberty. Second place goes to the Bremen-based artist and designer Julian Hölscher for "Letters of liberty". An abstract typographic work that deals with education as a cornerstone of democracy. Third place went to the Berlin collective RESORB with their work "Discourse", which uses AI image generators to create its own visual language with cute figures that create a democratic order in a small universe of chaos.
With the support of the ZKM | Karlsruhe, the works of all award winners will now go into technical production to be shown in the program at the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELEN 2024 on the Karlsruhe Palace façade.
August 15 to September 15, 2024
www.schlosslichtspiele.info
