THE 10TH GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR FESTIVAL WILL TAKE PLACE FROM 24TH TO 26TH SEPTEMBER 2021!

 

This year, the Genius Loci Weimar festival will take place from the 24th to the 26th of September 2021! After last year's event had to be cancelled due to the pandemic, this late summer video artists finally bring the historical facades of Weimar to light again. During the festival weekend, this year's winning works for Bastille and Altenburg as well as last year's winning works for Marstall, Goethe and Schiller Archives and also for Altenburg will be premiered. So for the 2021 festival, for the first time, five winning works will be presented at four locations. In addition, the festival route will feature further light installations and side acts. Everyone can participate in the Public Vote on this year's submissions for the two competition buildings Marstall and Altenburg, online until Sunday, 27th ofJune.

 

The Festival

As a festival for projection art and media architecture, the Genius Loci Weimar Festival combines many different genres: architecture, media art, design, performing arts and fine arts. In the past competitions, artists from all over the world have dealt with the historical sites of the classic city and the young art form of videomapping.

The history of Weimar is far broader than its “golden” and “silver” eras. Many a culture war has been fought within the city walls and countless tragic figures have passed through its dwellings and dungeons: In its 10th edition, Genius Loci dedicates itself to this dark side of Weimar with the annual theme "True Crime" and will begin the tour at the Bastille Ensemble, a veritable institution of princely power in Weimar. It is also where the young maid and child murderer Johanna Catharina Höhn was most likely incarcerated until her execution by beheading. The tour continues on the south facade of the Baroque Weimar City Castle and onward to the Marstall, the Former ducal stables with its former Gestapo cellars. Then it’s up to the Goethe- and Schiller Archive and finally to the Altenburg, where Franz Liszt hid the young Richard Wagner, who was wanted as a revolutionary, terrorist and subversive after the failed May uprising in Saxony in 1849.

Genius Loci Weimar takes place in cooperation with the festival organisation MXPerience gUG. The festival is also supported by the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society, the State Chancellery of Thuringia, the City of Weimar, the Sparkasse Central Thuringia, the Weimarer Wohnstätte GmbH, the Best Western Premier Grand Hotel Russischer Hof, Epson, Logando and rebeam.

 

Genius Loci Weimar | Festival for Videomapping and Facade Projection | September 24-26, 2021