Highlight is an unimposing public installation. It can easily be overlooked or confuse viewers in a way that’s hard to pinpoint at first. The sculpture is a streetlamp similar to those found in the area and along the Zoobrücke, but is located in the park next to the bridge. It has been extended to meet…

In 1997, Maik and Dirk Löbbert installed their work Beleuchtung / Lighting on Hüsingstraße as part of the sculpture mile. The street featured a combination of old and new architecture and design, including the historic street lamp that was used as the starting point for their artistic intervention. The artists placed a modern whip lamppost…

A thirty-meter tall light sculpture is positioned atop a mining heap known as Großes Holz in the town of Bergkamen. The sculpture consists of a steel pillar with a white coating that was equipped with rows of LED lights spaced roughly 10 centimeters apart. The vertical lines of the LED tracks make the work look…

The Bergkamen city center can be “experienced” through four centrally located traffic circles. Maik and Dirk Löbbert created an imaginary connection between these sites by installing illuminated poles at the center of each circle. The poles are slanted at such an angle that, if extended further, they meet above the Marktplatz and form a sort…

In this work, the artists created a complex perceptual situation out of basic materials and a simple geometric form. By painting three-quarters of a black circle on the white sidewall of a building, they draw attention to what was otherwise an architectural “blank slate.” Looking at it, one automatically imagines the circle complete and spontaneously…