From 27 November 2025 to 18 January 2026, we’re unveiling a new public artwork at the Amsterdam Light Festival. This interactive installation invites visitors to shape a live tapestry of light and sound.
The Amsterdam Light Festival is one of Europe’s leading light-art events, transforming the city’s canals and historic streets into an open-air gallery each winter.
Its installations are experienced by millions of visitors on foot, by bike or from a boat that weaves through the illuminated route.
Since its first official edition in 2012, the festival has invited artists from around the world to submit proposals responding to a yearly theme. From nearly a thousand submissions, only eight new artworks are selected each year making inclusion both competitive and prestigious.
This year, we are proud to be one of twenty artists involved in the festival.
The theme is legacy. What do we leave behind, individually and collectively?
We will be showcasing Rhapsōdia, a large-scale interactive installation of light, sound and memory. Installed on the facade of an old telecommunications exchange, Rhapsōdia transforms a once bustling site of connection into an interactive artwork powered by public participation.
Visitors are invited to share messages of their hopes for the future via a mobile site. These messages generate the artwork’s dynamic display of woven light and a responsive soundscape, marking this historic space for connection and communication.
Inspired by ancient epic poetry, where individual voices were stitched into collective stories, Rhapsōidia translates each contribution into light, motion and sound. The result is a living, evolving archive, shaped by the people who pass through and the messages they leave behind.
Where voices once travelled through wires, now a new kind of signal flows, one that honours the past while looking forward. Share your hopes for the future. Be part of the story.
Jess Adkins, Brand Experience Design Lead, EMEADesigned by M Moser’s Brand Experience team, this project continues our exploration into how data, architecture and brand storytelling can create memorable public experiences. It draws on M Moser’s multidisciplinary approach, combining interactive design and engineering.
Visitor details
Festival dates: 27 November 2025 to 18 January 2026
Where: Herengracht 295 near M Moser’s Amsterdam studio
