ALLUMINOUS

FESTIVAL

Artistic director and curator of ALLUMINOUS, a festival dedicated to innovative theatrical forms and artistic methodologies in the genre of light art in the city of Almere. ALLUMINOUS focuses on artworks commissioned to collaborating duos of theatre professionals and visual artist, as new concepts for the artistic realm of light art, presented along a five kilometer route around Almere’s Weerwater lake. 

2025 festival edition preparation in progress.

FEATURED ARTISTS:
2024 - In duo commissions: Louise te Poele & Tim Vermeulen/Suburbia, Noortje van den Eijnde & Jos Agasi/Vis à Vis, Touki Delphine & Enric Monfort/Black Pencil Ensemble, Pieternel Bollmann & Vasilis Apotlatos/BonteHond. Additional commissions: Clinton Kabena, Suze Miltenburg & Stieneke Oeverbeek. Additional artworks: Atelier Haute Cuisine, WERC Collective, Jop Vissers Vorstenbosch, Folkert de Jong.
2023 - In duo commissions: Theun Mosk/Gouden Haas & Oceanic, Maaike Fransen & Juul Dekker/Vis à Vis, MAISON the FAUX & Linda Bosch/Suburbia, Zindzi Witte & Serano Pinas/Bontehond, Enric Monfort/Black Pencil & Jurjen Alkema. Additional artworks: Vendel & de Wolf, UXU studio, Iwan Smit.
2022 - In duo commissions: Meeus van Dis & Neal Groot/Suburbia, Simon Wald-Lasowski & Hendrik Walther/Ulrike Quade Company, Heleen Blanken & Marieke Nooren/Gouden Haas, Daphne Karstens/BonteHond. Additional artworks: Gali May Lucas, Mads Vega, Clay Dorse Odom, Nicole Banowetz.

PARTNERS:
Vis à Vis, Suburbia, Gouden Haas, BonteHond, Black Pencil, Light Art Collection, Carte Blanche, Ulrike Quade Company,  M. Museum. TSR AV, Circuloco. 

2022, 2023, 2024, 2025