Announcement!
The Zsolnay Light Festival will continue today as usual, with the exception of two locations.
Early Friday evening, two tree branches were blown down by gale-force winds at the Sétatér in Pécs, one of the venues of the Zsolnay Light Festival. There were no injuries to persons or damage to property. The Sétater was closed as a precautionary measure for the safety of visitors, so the Zsolnay Light Art Video Mapping competition at the Cathedral will be cancelled today and the Cella Septichora will not be open to the public.
All other festival venues and programmes will continue to operate without disruption. The organisers highly recommend the programmes of the Zsolnay Quarter and the Kodály Centre.
The festival is cooperating with the authorities and the meteorological service.
Thank you for your understanding.
The Cathedral as a living work of art: an international competition.
Our international mapping competition is open to all, free of charge, on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, for a total of 13 sessions on the south façade of the Cathedral building, as follows:
Thursday, friday and saturday
21.30 - Screening of competition works
22.00 - Screening of competition works
22.30 - Screening of competition works
23.00 - Screening of competition works
23.30 - "Best of" - award-winning artworks from previous years, and closing with the iconic mapping artwork ”The Book of Jonah" by Glowing Bulbs.
Sunday
21.30 - Screening of competition works
22.00 - Announcement of results and awards ceremony
22.30 - Audience Award Winner of the 2025 competition + "Best of" - award-winning artworks from previous years, and closing with the iconic mapping artwork ”The Book of Jonah" by Glowing Bulbs.
Due to the strong light and sound effects, we do not recommend this event for sensitive visitors!
The Zsolnay Light Art Mapping Competition is the biggest attraction of the four-day festival, which will conjure up stunning light works on the monumental facade of the Pécs Cathedral every evening. This year, Hungarian, Czech, Polish and Bulgarian artists will compete for the audience's attention. The theme of this year's competition coincides with the central theme of the festival.
NO//BODY
Light as a medium of artistic expression is very closely linked to the themes of incorporeality, immateriality and intangibility, its ability to create form and affect us without being physically tangible. The artistic theme of this year's festival - NO//BODY - seeks reflections on the changes taking place in our everyday lives in real and virtual space through the potential of light and digital art.
Zsolnay Light Art 2025 participants:
Ari Dykier (Poland)
Elektrick.me (Bulgaria)
Éva Magyarósi (Hungary)
Metanoia Creatives (Czech Republic)
HOST + PROFESSIONAL PARTNER:
The professional partner of Zsolnay Light Art Festival, with a history of more than 25 years, and the host of the competition every year is the Hungarian visual artists' group Glowing Bulbs,
The Zsolnay Light Art Mapping Competition is sponsored by Pannon Thermal Power Plant.
