A single touch can change everything. TOUCH celebrates the power of human connection. The artwork’s electronic field senses when two visitors join hands and transforms into a 4,300 m3 galaxy of stars.

TOUCH transforms museum Draiflessen Collection into an ephemeral dream world of light through the joining of hands.

What was until recently a completely everyday, self-evident act of human encounter is suddenly no longer so: the mutual touch, the embrace or the handshake. Roosegaarde addresses this moment and the significance of this human connection in his expansive installation developed especially for the Draiflessen Collection.

In the museum's 4,300 m3 exhibition space, Roosegaarde has created TOUCH, an interactive work of art that captivates visitors as they enter, creates a sense of wonder, and invites and inspires them to act without words. The fact that our perception and action are specifically directed towards this special act of connection unravels at the very moment of touch: this is the key to an imposing visual explosion that transports us and our counterpart into a new universe when the artwork’s electronic field senses when two visitors join hands and through this interaction, light is then coded into thousands of star lights.

28.11.2021 until 27.02.2022 in Mettingen, Germany.

Our GROW won the People's Lovie Winner in Science & Education and Global Future Design Awards in Lighting Design which recognises outstanding design across the globe.

WATERLICHT is a collective experience to raise awareness of climate change worldwide.

Our monumental light installation WATERLICHT is back and celebrates its German premiere in Oberhausen. As a virtual flood of light WATERLICHT will immerse the Peter Behrens Building in blue light and raise awareness of rising water levels worldwide. In doing so, WATERLICHT questions how we as societies can deal with rising water levels of different origins in a local and global context.

In Oberhausen, the artwork is set in relation to the challenges of eternity. As a result of coal mining, the Ruhr region has sunk by up to 25 meters. Without the constant pumping of groundwater, large parts of the region would be flooded and a lake landscape of up to 90km in length would be created. Intensive research is being conducted not only into how the water can be extracted but how the heat of the water from underground can be used to generate energy.

Welcome at Future 21 WATERLICHT 5 and 6 November 19:30 till 00:00 in Oberhausen, Germany.

LOTUS Maffei blooms in response to light and is now part of the permanent art collection of Palazzo Maffei in Verona, Italy amongst artworks by Lucio Fontana, Pablo Picasso and Gerrit Rietveld.

Curated by Gabriella Belli, LOTUS Maffei creates a dynamic dialogue in search of a new harmony between people and the environment.

Join us for an exclusive talk and the screening of GROW with inventor Daan Roosegaarde at the Netherlands Pavilion - Expo 2020 Dubai on World Food Day on October 16th, 2021 at 2 PM GST in collaboration with the Embassy and Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United Arab Emirates. Register link.

GROW is winner of the Established Excellence category in Fast Company‘s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards, alongside designers and businesses who are solving problems for a better future. GROW is "a remarkable science-meets-art solution that hints at a more sustainable future for the agricultural industry." - FastCompany

GROW has won first prize in the international 2021 I CUBE Immersive Experience Competition by MANA Global New Media Art.

The all female jury of agency and brand leaders selected URBAN SUN to win a Gerety award.

LOTUS OCULUS at the Modern Art Gallery Milan is designed by Studio Roosegaarde and commissioned by Bulgari for the exhibition ‘Metamorphosis’.

LOTUS OCULUS premieres at Milan Design Week 2021, commissioned by Bulgari. Hundreds of light-sensitive flowers create a play of movement. Modern Art Gallery Milan, 5-10 September 2021.

Welcome to URBAN SUN Aarhus Festival, Northern Europe’s largest cultural event and opened by HRH The Queen of Denmark. URBAN SUN sanitizes this public space in Denmark of the coronavirus using a safe far-UVC 222 nanometers light.

Our GROW wins the Novum Design Award in Lighting Design Category.

Interview with Daan Roosegaarde: the activist of innovation and technology.

After the successful launch in Rotterdam, URBAN SUN which sanitizes public spaces of the coronavirus will go on a world tour to Aarhus Festival in Denmark, Museum of Design Atlanta in the USA, and the Netherlands Pavilion at the World Expo 2020 Dubai. Press Release

LIQUID LANDSCAPE premieres at Arte Sella in Italy to create a playful dialogue between people and nature when stepping on this surreal landscape of grass.

Watch our modern fairytale movie now of LIQUID LANDSCAPE with dancers Ilaria Marcolin and Giacomo Citton of Dancing Museums, directed by Daan Roosegaarde.

The contemporary open air museum Arte Sella in Italy premieres LIQUID LANDSCAPE. Visitors experience an unexpected fluid movement when stepping on the artwork, revealing our symbiotic relationship with the environment.

The Alpine mountain at Arte Sella is an inspiration for LIQUID LANDSCAPE, always changing in color and shape.

"LIQUID LANDSCAPE is radical new sculpture thinking; as an anti-sculpture it is almost invisible in which the visitor is invited to become the artwork." Emanuele Montibeller, art curator Arte Sella, in conversation with Daan Roosegaarde.

Studio Roosegaarde is looking for creative go-getters who want to bring radical ideas into reality. Are you a designer, project-manager, intern or developing talent that wants to be a part of our new art meets science projects? Apply now with your motivation letter to work@studioroosegaarde.net.

Today URBAN SUN which sanitises public space of viruses is world news and reached more than 850 million people. Thank you BBC, Yahoo, Reuters, Dezeen, Fastcompany, Frame, Jinek and many others. Looking forward to URBAN SUN's possibilities shining, and more applications in the future.

LEVENSLICHT wins the Media Architecture Award at the Media Architecture Biennale. The design honours the Dutch Holocaust victims with this humbling artwork of 104,000 luminescent memorial stones in 170 municipalities.

Breathe freer under our URBAN SUN, the unique light innovation which cleans public spaces of the coronavirus. Experience it yourself at the one and only Lowlands Festival, the Netherlands.

Proud to be a part of the World Expo Dubai exhibition. Art boosts innovation: our GROW will highlight the future of agriculture.

ARC21 Innovation Awards is now open for your future design submissions; with chairman Daan Roosegaarde, Catherine Koekoek, Reinder Bakker and Astrid de Wilde as official jury.

Our GROW wins at ADC Annual Awards, the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world celebrating the very best in design.

Our GROW wins two international design awards at [d]arc in London and MUSE Award by International Awards Associate. GROW uses the power of light to improve agriculture.

Daan Roosegaarde opens the Barcelona Design Week with the theme Think, Design, Act. Join him Monday 7 June at 18.00 CEST.

Watch Daan Roosegaarde's interview on Dutch television Jinek about URBAN SUN, with more than 2.3 million views in the first week.

Scientists validate the science of URBAN SUN in the Radio 1 interview with Ab Osterhaus, Andreas Voss and Ivo Lede (in Dutch).

Join the dialogue with director of Ministry of Culture & Youth Shatha Amin Almulla and Daan Roosegaarde to celebrate Arts and Culture in the UAE and the Netherlands. Live on Tuesday 1 June 13.00 CEST.

Daan Roosegaarde kicks-off the Dutch Innovation Days 2021 on Wednesday 26 May, 19:00 CEST. Join him and learn how you can use your imagination to create a better future.

Daan Roosegaarde will inspire on how to design a better future at AIBC Confab 2021 by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia. Join us in the online lecture and Q&A on 11 May, 12.30 PM GMT-7.

Our URBAN SUN is honoured as finalist of the FastCompany World Changing Ideas Award 2021 Urban Design.

As PR & Media Manager at Studio Roosegaarde you work on the all-round storytelling of our new groundbreaking projects which show the beauty of a sustainable society.