Light Art Park ｜ TOKYO LIGHTS 2026

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An overwhelming, large-scale Earth installation measuring approximately seven meters in diameter created by Luke Jerram, an artist known for his genre-defying expression. Produced using high-resolution 120 dpi surface data provided by NASA, this work offers a profound and mesmerizing sense of immersion — as if gazing at the Earth floating in outer space.

Created in partnership with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Bluedot Festival and The UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres. With supporting partners Culture Liverpool and Liverpool Cathedral.
Photo © R.o.R Festival & Ana Rojc

Luke Jerram: Luke Jerram is an artist who works across a diverse range of forms including sculpture, installation and live art, unconstrained by genre. Based in the UK, he has been active globally for over 25 years, presenting a series of projects filled with wonder. His uniquely imaginative works continue to inspire and move people worldwide.
https://my-earth.org

Embrace

An interactive participatory installation by Beamhacker, known for their expertise in blending light and mirror-based expression. By joining hands with the human-shaped silhouettes arranged around you, ripples of light spread outward in a cascading chain reaction. Through the communication and cooperation of participants, the display evolves as a vibrant, spectacular experience.

Beamhacker: With an extensive background organising dance music events, the Beamhacker journey started while creating countless bespoke stage and venue installations. What began with a more low fi / set design aesthetic increasingly evolved into new technologies and DIY lighting techniques, incorporating LEDs, Fibre Optics, EL Wire, Lasers, VR and interactive sensors, always with a strong focus on immersion. Beamhacker has led on the design, build and programming of multiple temporary and permanent lighting installations across the country for festivals, brands, museums and public art commissions.
https://www.instagram.com/beamhacker/

Visible TOWER

Visible TOWER is a tower-shaped installation that captures and visualizes the daily rhythms of city life — the minds, lives and work of the people who move through the streets — as "memories of light." By day, it reflects the city and its people like a mirror. By night, AI-generated collages of the city's memories emerge on an LED display, transforming the tower into a luminous sculpture that sets the city's memories free. As a symbol of the "Visible CITY," it continues to kindle new light in the hearts of all who visit, day and night.

V_T V_TsMembers: YAMACHANG / Naoya Murayama / Kenji Kohashi: V_T is a collective of light artists born from two vectors:
"Visible / Vertical / Vision" and "Tower / Tokyo / Target." By making the memories, emotions and presence hidden within cities visible as light sculptures, and by drawing out the latent potential of a place, they evoke different stories and quiet questions within each viewer.
・YAMACHANG： https://yamachang-jp.com/
・Kenji Kohashi： https://www.thehumanmiracle.com/

Frozen Spire

Countless frost pillars rise silently toward the sky. The surging power of energy found in nature is visualized as a structure of light.

Tokyo Lighting Design: Tokyo Lighting Design creates luminous productions under the keyword "SUPERNATURAL."
Their mission is to merge technological innovation and artistry – bringing out the beauty of light and shadow – to deliver one-of-a-kind spatial experiences. Creative and technical prowess has been demonstrated in landmark projects such as the full-scale laser projection mapping of the nationally designated treasure Matsumoto Castle, and "NightWave," a light sculpture that visualizes the natural phenomenon of waves, quietly emerging as a single beam of light accompanied by the sound of crashing surf.
https://tokyolighting.com

TOKYO百花繚乱

An installation that sees every individual living in Tokyo as one of "infinite flowers." Different colors, forms and ways of living resonate, blend and bloom to represent Tokyo. Embrace challenge, make an expression, scatter and bloom again. Tokyo has always been home to infinite flowers. Do not fear being blown to the wind. Bloom with pride, Tokyo.

Supported by COLORs CREATION Co.Ltd.

MEGU: "Flowers should be so much more free." After years of working with fresh flowers as a professional, MEGU finally arrived at the concept of "giant flowers." Founded in 2015, PETAL Design – Japan's first studio dedicated to this art form – has brought countless blossoms to life across commercial spaces and urban landscapes. Enormous yet delicate, magnificent yet sublime. "Where flowers bloom so does hope" – for someone, somewhere.
https://www.petaldesign.jp/

リキッドユニバース：蒼氓蟲譜 / Liquid Universe: Sōbō Chūfu — An Unclassifiable Entomologia of the Luminous Swarm

A new work created for this event by Yoichi Ochiai, whose practice explores materialization, transformation and longing for mass at the boundaries of possibility. Fireflies, bioluminescent creatures and LEDs – forms of light found in nature and the city – converge within a four-meter light pillar. In a stream of imagery perpetually generated by computational nature, the boundary between natural and artificial is blurred, guiding viewers toward a new perspective on light.

Yoichi Ochiai

Media artist, born in 1987, started working as an artist around 2010. His work is based on the motifs of materialization, transformation, and the longing for physicality in the Digital Nature. Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Associate Professor at the Tokyo University and he has served as a producer of the theme project for Japan EXPO 2025 in Osaka and Kansai.
Major solo exhibitions include Kusakabe Folk Craft Museum Special Exhibition (Gifu, 2021-2025) etc.

https://yoichiochiai.com/

Hydrangea Lights

Spheres of light shaped like flowers. Each piece is handcrafted with care, resulting in forms that differ in how they open, cast shadows and express the light that spills through them. Though man-made, they carry an organic softness, quietly bridging the uniformity of daily life with the gentle sway of nature – an offering of light that brings serene harmony and warmth to the space.

Oshima Elec Sogyo: Oshima Elec Sogyo is a spatial decoration and design project led by Nozomu Oshima. Centered around lighting decoration using originally designed lamps inspired by plants and flowers, the project creates immersive spatial experiences by combining a diverse range of materials including woodwork and fabric. Active across a wide variety of settings, from music festivals and live events to corporate and art events.
https://www.oshimaelec.com/

BOKETTO

Outdoor kinetic art that sways like ocean waves in the natural breeze, conceived around the idea of time spent slowly, doing nothing. For this event, units were arranged to evoke the imagery of a mangrove landscape, where waves crash against the trees to create ripples, superimposed over the forest scenery. At night, the light reflected by the artwork spreads across the trees, much like the reflection on the water’s surface.

YUMEO NAKAYAMA: Yumeo Nakayama primarily works with outdoor installations, under the shared theme of "the sensation of living on Earth." By placing works in outdoor settings, they aim to create spaces of calm where visitors feel as though they are genuinely encountering animals and nature. The inspiration behind each work is rooted in personal experience, and carries a deep respect for the living world of flora and fauna.
https://yumeonakayama.wixsite.com/ouma

Photosynthesis

With "photosynthesis" as its theme, this work depicts the respiratory cycle of plants: absorbing light by day, and releasing energy by night. Daytime depicts "absorption" through the invisible medium of sound, while nighttime depicts "release" through light. This piece completes a single life cycle through the interplay of day and night. Attuned to nature's rhythm and in dialogue with the space, it creates an atmosphere unique to that specific location.

FLIGHTGRAF: FLIGHTGRAF is a Tokyo-based audiovisual unit creating installations that fuse video, sound and light since 2013. The unit is internationally active, with notable credits including Expo 2025, the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, a headline performance at Signal Festival (Prague) and the Grand Prix at Genius Loci Weimar (Germany). Using space as their canvas, they craft deeply immersive experiences.
https://www.flightgraf.com/

Seeds of Light 光の卵 — Egg of Hope

An egg-shaped geometric structure in which light fractures inside and spreads through the space as brilliant, fractal particles. The egg is the origin of life – a symbol of possibility without form. This light appearing in the urban night quietly signals the budding of a new world.

TOSHIAKI UCHIKOSHI: Toshiaki Uchikoshi creates spatial works using light and structural forms. Drawing on an aesthetic sensibility rooted in classical Japanese art, he develops installations that house light within geometric structures and harness the phenomenon of light as it expands into space. In recent years, through his "Egg of Hope" series, he has been exploring spatial experiences created by light, using the egg – a symbol of the origin and potential of life – as his central motif.
https://www.instagram.com/toshiaki_uchikoshi/

INTER-WORLD/Cocooner: Apparent motion of celestial bodies

An immersive work exhibited at "Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025" as part of the official Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai program. A soft sculpture that amplifies natural phenomena caused by the interaction of air, water and sunlight. Grounded in the artist's perspective that "people resemble air, water and light," it viscerally reveals how we are connected to the world, and poses the question of shedding the cocoon of the Anthropocene.

Akihito Okunaka: Akihito Okunaka is an artist and co-director of the AO Institute of Arts. He became active as an artist after experience working as a workshop instructor at museums and welfare facilities. Okunaka has completed artist-in-residence programs in France, South Korea and China, and currently creates participatory works and workshops in collaboration with local communities. Recipient of the Jury Prize at Art Award IN THE CUBE 2023 and held a solo exhibition at WHAT MUSEUM in 2024, his work was also featured in "Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025."
https://osaka-kansai.art/products/okunakaakihito
https://aoioa.art/
https://www.instagram.com/akihito_okunaka/

Fractal Forest

Repeating network structures – roots, mycelium, leaf veins, blood vessels – exist throughout the natural world.

This work is an installation that projects light onto mirror sheets adorned with free-motion stitching, using the resulting reflections to create a spatial experience.

When viewers step inside, the web of light envelops their bodies, evoking a sensation of having entered the depths of a forest.

The human body and the structure of the forest resonate with each other, and the boundary between nature and body begins to gently shift within the light.