
12/09/2025
A 15-metre-high ball of light. Gently pulsating. Breathtaking. Right in the middle of Festivalplein in Heerlen (Netherlands 🇳🇱). For the Cultura Nova Festival 2025, Swiss artist Dan Acher transformed the city centre with his installation , turning it into a living rhythm. The sphere formed the beating heart of the light installation. Pulsating in time with the breath (six seconds inhaling, six seconds exhaling), it slowly changed from dark to light and back again, accompanied by a spherical soundscape created by composer Laurent Jespersen.
Gregor Utt, owner of UTT-Veranstaltungstechnik, provided a consistent 360° sound system comprising 11x Voice-Acoustic Score-8 loudspeakers. This enabled visitors to enjoy the pulsating light and sound experience fully from every direction. Every evening between 29 August and 7 September, visitors were invited to take a moment to sit down, watch and simply breathe together at the installation on Festivalplein.
📸 Luc Lodder