GLOW Eindhoven

For more than a week Eindhoven's public space is a stage for artists, designers and architects working with light. With works of art that react to the urban environment and together with the audience transform the centre into a large temporary museum.

Eindhoven is known as the Dutch City of Light. Since the establishment of the first light bulb factories the production of light sources has had a strong influence in the city's development. Nevertheless, for a long time this close relationship with light only had a limited presence in public space. In mid-2000 the term Night Town was introduced into the municipal vision on the city centre. This expressed the ambition to make Eindhoven's inner city, which was already used and visited intensively by day, equally lively and atttractive at night.

GLOW captures the core values of the city like technology, innovation and design but also characterizes hospitality, openness and result-orientation. From the first moment on GLOW has been overwhelming. The balance between accessible projects and high-quality artworks appeals to a broad audience and draws attention of the national and international press. The steadily rising number of visitors, from a nice 45,000 in the first year to no fewer than 450,000 in 2012 speaks volumes.