Genius Loci Weimar
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Genius Loci Weimar is a three-day festival for audiovisual art, video mapping and facade projections, which takes place annually at various locations in the cultural city of Weimar, Germany. The festival was launched in 2012 by festival founder Hendrik Wendler.
Festival
Artists from various disciplines, such as video art, new media art, architecture, animation and music, participate in the festival. In the run-up to the festival, an international competition is announced in which artists can submit their works. During the festival weekend, up to three building facades in Weimar will be used to display the video projects selected in the competition. From dusk until midnight, the artists will project their contributions, which are limited to a maximum of fifteen minutes, onto selected buildings in the city center. In addition to the main projections, other audiovisual installations, known as side acts, will also be presented on the festival grounds.
Among the most famous buildings to date are the Goethe and Schiller Archive, the German National Theater and State Orchestra Weimar, the German National Theater (DNT), the Anna Amalia Library, the former Gauforum, and the City Palace, the Bastille, the new Bauhaus Museum and the Buchenwald memorial.
Each year, the festival is dedicated to a theme that combines the Genius Loci of the venue with current social issues. In 2025, the theme will be Goethe's Faust.
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