The photographer and light artist Laurenz Theinert (*1963) concentrates his work on visual experiences that do not refer pictorially to anything. Rather, he strives for an abstract-reduced aesthetic, which – through the desire for further dematerialization – ultimately led him from photography to the medium of light.

He is a live light and media artist. His “visual piano” performances are shown all over the world. From Sao Paulo, London, Sydney, Berlin to New York and Singapore. He creates media light spaces with 360° panoramic projections. This creates abstract, live environments.

In order to interact spontaneously with other participating artists (musicians and dancers) he has invented the worldwide unique instrument “visual piano” in collaboration with Philipp Rahlenbeck. Live and in real time, he uses a MIDI keyboard to create graphic structures that are projected to fill the room.

1963
born in Hanover

1985-92
studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart and Leicester University, GB

since 1992
light/sound/space performances, light installations, photography

2008-09
curator TRESOR – space for ephemeral art

2016
Department of Art and Design, Beijing University of Technology

2015
Light, Atmosphere, Space, HAWK Hamburg

2014
Light, Atmosphere, Space, University of Stuttgart

2013
Individuality – Creativity – Innovation, University of Stuttgart, interdisciplinary key qualifications

2009
LightLab, Design Academy Eindhoven

2008-11
Experimental Design, Folkwang University of the Arts

2006
Staging of contents, HdK Burg Giebichenstein, Halle

2001
Professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart

2001
Presenting with New Media, HdK Burg Giebichenstein, Halle

1996
Perception and organization of creative processes. HdK Burg Giebichenstein, Halle

2018
Kavalierhaus Scholarship Langenargen

2011
MuVI3 Award for synaesthetic media art

2010
Fotosommer Stuttgart, Award Show

2009
VBKW Promotion Award

2008
Visual Music Award

2007/08
Artist in residence, Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts, GB

2006/07
Studio grant Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

“The Liberation of Form”
Light and sound concert with Fried Dähn (cello), Lehmbruckmuseum Duisburg

“Glitter & Poison”
Light and sound concert, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

“Pas de Deux”
Light-sound-concert with Claudia Janet Birkholz (piano), Realtime Festival Bremen

“The Ligeti Experiment”
Light-sound-concert with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra

„The Awakening“
Light installation, Svetlobna Gverila, Ljubljana, SI

“Sonic Ocean”
Audiovisual perormance on noise pollution in the oceans

“What the stones tell”
Videomapping about the building history, day of the monument, Esslingen

“Transformations”
Light-sound concert with Dominik Sustek, International Music Days Paderborn

“Licht und Lichtbild”
Solo exhibition photography and light installations, Galerie Abt Art, Stuttgart

“In a New Light – Mozart Requiem”
Music Festival ION Nuremberg with the Eliott Quartett

“Art & Beats”
Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt

“The Union is our God”
Video overlay to the composition by Anselm MacDonell, with the London Symphony Orchestra, U.K.

“Fantaisie Harmonique”
Music video to the composition by Jason Nobel, with McGill University Montreal, CA.

“One Minute Audiovisual Joy”
Online music video project, Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid, Germany

“The Awakening”
Light installation, Gallery AK2, Stuttgart

“Hegel Machine”
Light installations, Museum Hegelhaus, Stuttgart

“Apparition”
light-sound-installation, Reelkirchen

“at.mur.at”
Multimedia performance, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, with Josef Klammer and Seppo Gründler

“3 times 3”
Light-sound-performance with Günther Reger, art museum Heidenheim

“The Sonographers”
Light / sound performance with Fried Dähn, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser

“21st Century Guitar”
Ottawa, light-sound concerts with Steve Cowan, Jason Noble and Adam Cicchillitti

“hammerhaus feat. vocal tribe”
LWL Museum Münster

“Zappa plays for Bach”
St. Katharinen, Hamburg with Napoleon M. Brock, Chris Garcia,Gabriel Coburger and Fried Dähn

“Digital Poetry”
Whitebox, Munich with Martin Stortz, piano

“Diffusion”
light-sound-performance, with R. Seiliog, ffotogallery Cardiff, GB

“visual piano”
light-sound-performance, with Daniela Savoldi, Treviso, IT

“Polar Weeks”
Multimedia installation, German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, Germany

“Places without intention”
Light installations, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst (solo exhibition).

“Diffusion”
Photographs ‘Time Shift’ and ‘Before the Content’, ffotogallery Cardiff, GB

“visual piano”
Light-sound performance, German Embassy Podgorica, MNE

“LUNA”
Light-sound performances, Leeuwarden, NL

“In Taro’s World”
Light-Sound-Concerts with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra

“Collumina”
Light-Sound-Performance, with Lukas Pearse, Chocolate Museum Cologne, Germany

“Pianotopia”
Light-sound-performance, with Chris Geisler and Kurt Holzkämper, Theaterhaus Stuttgart

“Klang Raum Zion”
Light-sound-performance, with Dominik Sustek, Zionskirche Berlin

“Colour Space”
Svetlobna Gverila, Ljubljana, SI

“Ornamental Hermit”
Kavalierhaus, Langenargen (solo exhibition).

“Colour Space – Seeing”
Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, PE

“Cidneon”
Light-sound performance, Brescia, IT

“Dreaming our Woods”
multimedia theater, Corby, GB

“Responsive”
Light-sound performance with Lukas Pearse, Hallifax, CA

“Camp Festival”
Light-Sound Performance, Sofia, BG

“Colour Space – Seeing”
Frost Museum of Sciences, Miami, US

“SEE Djerba”
Art in Context Project, Houmt Souk, TN

“Beauty Broken”
Light-sound performance, with Shasta Ellenbogen: Viola, Stadthaus Ulm

“Space Unfolding”
audiovisual improvisation environment, with Trondheim Voices, whitebox, Munich

“Interference”
light-sound-performance, Medina Tunis, TN

“Colour Space – Seeing”
Science Gallery, Dublin, UK

“Ascents”
Light installation Jacob’s Ladder, international light art festival Kulturregion Stuttgart, Germany.

“Lichte Tiefe zwischen Raum”
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg (solo exhibition)

“tracing_OS”
a performative search for traces of Oskar Schlemmer with Eva Baumann, dance and Klaus Janek, sound; Bauhaus Dessau and WKV Stuttgart

“Alles Licht”
Municipal gallery ada, Meiningen

“Die Planeten – Faszination Universum” Liederhalle Stuttgart, with the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra

“Wall of Light and Sound”
Light and sound concert with Paul Fox and Lisa Berg, Sur dam, Esch, LU

“visual piano”
unpainted media art fair, Munich, light / sound performance with Fried Dähn and Thomas Maos

“Ich GLAUBE nicht – Ich GLAUBE schon”
Landestheater Tübingen, with Thomas Maos and Silvia Pfänder

“Die Welt, das Staunen und die Bilder”
Aalen Art Association, with Eva Schmeckenbecher and Gerhard Schabel

“Der instabile Raum”
Gallery Z, Stuttgart (solo exhibition)

“I See Europe”
art district, Stuttgart

“visual piano”
Tallinn Light Biennale, EE

“Klang und Licht”
Gallery AbtArt, Stuttgart, light / sound performance with Wolfgang Dauner, piano

“Recode Revolution”
Museum of Art Lucerne in cooperation with Lucerne-Festival, with Nils Fischer, CH

“visual piano”
Koktebel Jazz-Festival, Kiev, UA

“visual piano”
Jerusalem Light Festival, light / sound performance with Tuna Pase, IL

“visual piano”
Mapping Festival, Geneva, light / sound performance, CH

“Naturstücke”
Gallery Bildkultur, Stuttgart

“Stuttgart 21 – 21 Künstler aus Stuttgart”
Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm

“Bring to Light”
Brooklyn Greenpoint light / sound performance, New York City, US

“live cinema”
light / sound performance, with M. Barella and T. Rohrer (sponsored by Goethe Institut), Sao Paulo, BR

“sprachlos”
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, light / sound performance with Scott Roller

“ilight Marina Bay”
Light / sound performance with Axel Hanfreich, Singapore, SG.

“In C” (Terry Riley)
Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Reutlingen

“Fotosommer Award Show”
Württemberg Art Association

“Duell”
with Gert Wiedmaier, Art Association Aalen

“Kein Bildnis machen”
Ephemerals, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen

“Neue Arbeiten”
Gallery Bildkultur, Stuttgart

“smartlight”
light / sound performance, with Axel Hanfreich, Sydney, AU

“Glow” Eindhoven
Light / sound performance, with Axel Hanfreich, NL

“Entschleunigung”
Art Space Academy of the Diocese Rottenburg Stuttgart

“VBKW Promotion Award”
photography, video, light

“light night walk”
Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts, GB (solo exhibition)

“Dialog der Generationen”
Forum Concrete Art, Erfurt

“Kontakte” Stockhausen
German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Bremen

“visual … piano”
Kazantipfestival, Crimea, UA

“collision”
light / sound performance with Axel Hanfreich, London, GB 

“hammerhaus”
WKV, Stuttgart, light / sound performance with Axel Hanfreich, Gino Robair

“klangbild – lichtton”
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, light / sound performance, with Martin Stortz, piano

“Fotografie konkret – konkrete Fotografie”
Kulturspeicher Würzburg, concrete photography since 1945

“Lichtbild, Lichtraum, Lichtspiel”
Nürtingen Art Association (solo exhibition)