[4]"As a scene for light art, the urban space offers numerous unexplored possibilities to experience our present through architecture, light and technology, to break viewing habits or to illuminate the past.
[...] Artistic development can be made possible and thus different thematic or technically innovative focal points can be set will."
[6][5] The festival and the "Spotlight" series are organized by the non-profit association "Lichtstadt", which was founded in 2017.
[8] The international artists and artist collectives OchoReSotto, Peter Kogler, Brigitte Kowanz, David Reumüller, NEON GOLDEN, artificialOwl and DUNDU realized mappings, installations, projections and interactive works in the second edition.
Ten projects by international artists, e.g. Ólafur Elíasson, transformed the old town into a large open-air museum at nightfall.