LICHTTROMMEL is a permanent public-space installation in Graz that transforms the existing light canopy at Andreas-Hofer-Platz into a large-scale reference to The Tin Drum by Günter Grass. The work uses light, colour and scale to create a visible sign of attention, disturbance and civic presence in the city.
The central element of the square — a 28-metre-high lighting mast — becomes a monumental drum-like figure. Referring to the symbolic force of the drum as alarm, rhythm and resistance, the installation addresses social distress, political urgency and the danger of collective passivity in the face of rising nationalist violence.
Project Information
Artist: k.ada / Ada Kobusiewicz
Title: LICHTTROMMEL
Year: 2021
Category: permanent public-space light installation
Location: Andreas-Hofer-Platz, Graz, Austria
Materials: steel, aluminium, wood, painted roof surface
Dimensions: mast height 28 m / drum diameter 5 m / sticks length 6 m / roof surface 600 m²
Construction: Stefan Lozar
Set-up: Nemi Vitija / Matin Huth
Photography: Ulrike Rauch