Lumen 2025 – light artworks and artists
The Lumen light art event, held for the first time in January 2021, will once again light up the winter in Rauma 15.–18.1.2025. Artworks are displayed from 5 PM to 10 PM.
We Are the Nature – Pirate Pixie / Rauma Art Museum, yard
In the colorful and psychedelic work We Are the Nature, people and the rest of nature combine seamlessly in the joyful, bubbling, and jamming stream of life. In this delightful work, bears, squirrels, whales, humans, and other animals dance in synergy on the museum’s facade. The work delivers its message in a playful way while enticing visitors to join the dance of life!
Pirate Pixie is the artist name of Latvian artist Anna Meldrāja. She holds a BA in New Media Art and works with animation, film and video projection.
The Geometry of Shooting Stars – Mollu Heino
/ Kitukränn
The Geometry of Shooting Stars invites viewers to peek inside the cores of the fleeting celestial bodies known as shooting stars or comets.
Each of the comet-shaped sculptures is unique externally and internally. In addition to being of various shapes, they have their own distinctive light-reflective geometric cores. Playfully, the sculptures can be thought to be like people: one-of-a-kind, fleeting, and dazzling individuals.
Take a peek inside!
Mollu Heino is a visual artist living and working in Luvia, Eurajoki. Alongside painting, Heino is interested in the three-dimensionality that using light and space in art offers. She often uses light as part of the content of sculptures and installations. The glow, translucence, and immateriality of light appeal to Heino, as well as the temporality that comes from changes in light.
Light Square (labyrinth & light swings) – Mixa Oy
/ Market square
Rauma's market square has been turned into a Light Square, where a labyrinth and light swings enable play for visitors of all ages.
Please be mindful of other visitors and be aware that the ground may be slippery. Playing at the Light Squre happens at your own risk.
Mixa Oy is a multi-talent in event technology and has been operating in its field for 20 years. The person behind the company, Mikko Kiviharju, is described as an innovative, forward-thinking, and future-oriented international entrepreneur.
Mirror Owl (Bubo speculus) II – Jere Suontausta
/ Amarillo
The fictitious-dystopian bird specimen Mirror Owl (Bubo speculus) II is skillfully constructed from broken museum light reflectors, wine glasses, napkin holders, Czechoslovakian baking molds, dessert containers, and other recycled material. The sound of the work is created in an equally surprising way: by using the door of a mirror cabinet as an instrument.
Like a real nocturnal animal, the owl sculpture’s eyes glow in the dark as it lures visitors closer. The work can be interpreted as a supernatural creature which predicts the future. The fairy-tale-like character creates a magical and playful atmosphere in its presence.
The sculpture on display is the second version of the work.
Jere Suontausta is an artist based in Helsinki, working with multisensory art. In his practice he prefers to embrace both intuition and serendipity, often taking a rather non-rational approach to pottering around with found materials and light. By combining the familiar with the unknown in peculiar ways in his work, Suontausta pursues something otherworldly.
Tower – Satu Osmonen / Old town hall
In the work Tower, the artist's drawing of the tower of Rauma's old town hall is projected onto the facade. The simplicity and tone of the drawing emphasize the many beautiful details of the historic building.
Drawing is considered a form of play. By starting to draw without a plan, one can let the pen carry the line along with one’s thoughts in new directions.
Satu Osmonen is an artist from Rauma who is inspired by the architecture of historical buildings. The decorative details, personal design languages and geometry of the buildings inspire Osmonen. The work Tower, seen at Lumen Rauma, is her first light artwork.
In her work, Osmonen wants above all to respect the original architecture of the buildings and emphasize the timeless beauty of their details. She hopes that the works convey love and respect for her hometown and its valuable history.
Kaleider’s Twist and Shine – Kaleider / City hall, yard
The transformable light sculpture by the British Kaleider collective invites you to play. By moving the work's luminous, colourful blocks, visitors can modify the shape of the installation.
Building blocks are one of the oldest known toys. The simple building game has inspired people of all ages to play for hundreds and even thousands of years.
Kaleider collective’s membersare producers Katie Keeler and Jocelyn Mills, artist and producer Irene Urrutia, manager Peter Vanderford, and artist and director Seth Honnor. In addition, Kaleider is all of the freelancers who make up Kaleider’s production teams and the partnerships that help the work meet audiences. Kaleider combines installation, live performance, and digital art in its artworks, which are almost always made in collaboration.
Twist and Shine is commissioned by RHS Bridgewater for Glow 2023. It is a development of Let’s Twist, a commission by Rotherham, Children’s Capital of Culture.
EPIDERMIS – Gábor Szűcs / Tarvonsaari school
Epidermis is a projection mapping animation that explores the intricate and dynamic relationship between the human body and its environment.
Using skin as both a canvas and metaphor, the work brings to life the textures, patterns, and motions of biological and technological systems interacting. Through light and shadow, Epidermis reveals the layers of identity, protection, and vulnerability that skin embodies. while also reflecting the boundary between the organic and digital realms. The projection morphs in response to ambient stimuli, evoking a sense of living, breathing, evolving skin.
Gábor Szűcs is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Bratislava, Slovakia, as a painter, teacher, vj and video mapping artist. He has graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, painting department, Bratislava. He has received a number of prizes in the Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Russia.
DECOHERENCE – Niko Tiainen / Inside Tarvonsaari school
The multichannel work DECOHERENCE is a play of rhythm and sound. The word decoherence refers to a phenomenon in quantum mechanics, in which disorder increases. In the work, the term refers to the visual play of order and disorder.
Niko Tiainen is a multidisciplinary artist from Rauma, specialised on outdoor interactive projection mappings and video-, light- and sound installations. His installations often use conceptual ideas and abstract procedural materials with a mix of classical music structures and techniques. Tiainen holds a degree in classical music, composing and graphic design. He is also a postgraduate student at Aalto-University studying for a Master's Degree in New Media Design and Production.
Festival of Ice – Mixa Oy / Central Park
The work delights visitors in the ice park located in Rauma’s Central Park. Festival of Ice combines the play of lights on multiple surfaces: on ice, in the sky and in the park. The work is inspired by traditional jäärieha-events, in which the whole village would gather for fun and wintery festivities.
Submergence – Squidsoup / Rauman teatteri
Walk through Submergence and experience the merging of virtual and physical realities.
The work uses many thousands of individual points of suspended light to create feelings of presence and movement within physical space. Visitors can affect both the real and the virtual components of the work.
Through the series of movements of light, a 12-minute abstract narrative is formed with a gradual increase in tension, building to a final climax. Each movement has its own elements, atmosphere, and responsiveness. The work can be explored and interpreted playfully.
Squidsoup are pioneers in the use of light, sound, and technology to create immersive installations. The group encourages people to view the world from different perspectives, by presenting new kinds of evocative and beguiling experiences. Their work has been seen by millions of people across the globe since 1997 in galleries and live events, festivals and solo exhibitions.
Pic: Jari Lauren
Lantern Trail – Students of Rauma Lyceum / Keskustelupuisto
The Lantern Trail is open 14.1.-19.1.25 between 4–10 pm.
The charming and unique lanterns create a magical wintery atmosphere in the Conversation Park. The trail consists of 100 different lanterns, which were made by the students of Rauma Lyceum.
The Lantern Trail is located within the communal artwork Conversation Park – A Public Space Game by Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. In the work, a public park was made by 21 Rauma citizens of different ages. The charming park, implemented as a Lönnström project, is located at Kalliokatu 28–30.
The Lantern Trail is a project produced by the Lönnström Art Museum, Rauman Lyceum, Rauman City Wihertoimi and Mixa.fi.