LLUM Festival

For the second year running, Llum BCN transforms the streets of Poblenou into a huge, open-air experimentation laboratory using light as the creative medium and the work of artists, designers and architects from all over the world who are exploring the possibilities offered by new technologies in urban spaces such as dynamic lighting, large-scale projection and interactive environments.

Running since 2012, Llum BCN is a festival of light that aims to counter the darkness of winter with the splendour of light (llum means 'light' in Catalan) reflected on some of the city's most beautiful buildings and spaces.

This year the Llum BCN festival takes place again at the Poblenou neighbourhood, a district currently immersed in an intense process of transformation.

Thanks to this FREE and fun initiative, the citizens of Barcelona will be able to discover the force that light has to transform public spaces through artistic installations, projections and mappings by national and international artists.

And as a demonstration of Barcelona’s emerging talent, students from 14 of the city’s colleges of art, lighting, design and architecture are using nothing else but light to present their intervention projects in the space.

Overall, it provides us with a reflection on art, society and new technologies - in short, contemporary life.

The Llum BCN festival, held for the second year in the Poblenou quarter, is a circuit of luminous installations in which art and technology meet. For three nights an urban landscape is disrupted, moving between large, next-generation buildings, old chimneys, industrial warehouses, and often the emptiness of some plots of land. Very diverse spaces full of meanings that come together with the expressive capacity of light and its transformative power to create a unique festival.

And you know what? It is entirely FREE!

The twenty participants for 2019 include such prestigious international artists as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Daniel Canogar, pioneers of new digital tools such as the technologists Kyle McDonald and Joanie Lemercier, and some big names in Barcelona’s new creative scenes.

One of the hallmarks of Llum BCN, which sets it apart from other light festivals, is its commitment to the experimentation and innovation of students from Barcelona’s art, design, lighting and architecture schools, who take part in the event with fifteen light installations. 

It's a wonderful and entertaining invitation for city residents to discover a new way to inhabit the city's streets, but also something fun and different to experience with friends and families.

Also the rest of the city joins the festival, having alongside shows in honor of this big event! You will see projections in Plaza Sant Jaume for example or Plaza Sant Felip Neri, etc.

The 15 and 16 of February from 7pm to Midnight, Palo Alto will also join the initiative OFFLlumBCN'19 , promoted by the association Poblenou Urban District, which will be developed in parallel to the celebration of Llum Bcn Poblenou.

Large format images will be projected on the facades and interiors of the site.

The artists Nei Albertì and Xavier Medina-Campeny will contribute to turn the night into light spectacles.

Arxiu Fotografic del Poblenou, will provide images about the origins and evolution of the neighborhood.

The projection of these black and white photographs will be a tribute to a Poblenou full of light.

Nei Albertí, artist and sculptor, will present his TDL works, in which he reflects his own search as a sculptor and as an individual through the balance of antagonistic concepts.

His installation aims to "leave until the last second the possibility of changing the direction of the work, maintaining the mystery, the nerves, the fear and the joy of creation at the expense of the moment".

Where to eat, snack or drink something near Llum BCN?

They make it easy for you. Van Van Mercado Gastronómada becomes Van Van Llum.

You can enjoy a meeting point and rest area in a garden of illuminated trees, and choose food in food trucks parked in the area, or just drink something.

The food trucks will be in the street of Tanger (between the street of Zamora and the street of Pamplona) and in the street of Sancho de Ávila (between the street of Badajoz and the street of Ciutat de Granada).

Date: 15/02/2019 to 17/02/2019

Time: 

Friday and Saturday: 7:00 pm - 12:00 am

Sunday: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Ticket: Free event

City: Barcelona

Zone: Poblenou

How to get there: 

METRO (L1) Glòries / Marina - (L4) Llacuna / Bogatell TRAM T4, T5 BUS 6, 7, 62, 136, 192, H12, H14, V23, V25, N2, N6, N8, N11