Spier Light Art 2025 aims to ignite fresh sparks and interchange between local and visiting artists and audiences from the continent and the world at large.
Art, like food and wine, is best shared, which is why Spier is such an enthusiastic supporter of African artists and their creations. Housing one of the largest contemporary art collections in the country, Spier believes in the power of the visual arts to teach and inspire, encouraging us all to engage openly with our world and each other.
Site-specific art installations
The exhibition returns to Spier Wine Farm from 21 March to 21 April 2025, transforming the working farm into an immersive space of nocturnal adventure.
With 16 site-specific art installations activating the landscape, visitors will be free to wander, discover, and immerse themselves in the play of light and the stories that each artwork tells – an embodied reminder of art’s transformative power to illuminate even the darkest corners of our world and minds.
All the artworks are exhibited outside, so the best time to visit is at dusk, when the sun goes down and the lights come up. The exhibition is a family-friendly event that is free to the public, so bring your family and friends for a night-time adventure of illuminating art, fresh farm air, good wine and hearty food.
Spier Light Art 2024 Alan Alborough
More about light art  Â
Light art first appeared at the end of the 19th century after the discovery of electric incandescent lighting. Some standout light art works of the early 20th century include Russian avant-garde artist/designer El Lissitzky’s Proun Room (1923) and Hungarian Bauhaus Constructivist László Moholy-Nagy’s Light Space Modulator (1922–30).
In his writings about the genre, Moholy-Nagy referred to it as ‘light architecture’ or ‘light plays’. In the 1960s, it became known as ‘lumino kinetic art’ and was aligned with Op Art, due to the spectacular, psychedelic aspects of moving light.
The possibilities have expanded as more artists have chosen to use light as their main medium of expression.  Arising out of video art and photography, large light festivals and events have helped to develop the use of light on large canvases, such as architectural façades, building projections, the flood lighting of buildings with colour and interactive media facades. The Centre for International Light Art in Unna, Germany, is currently the world’s only museum dedicated exclusively to light art, but many contemporary art museums around the world include light sculptures and installations in their permanent and temporary collections. For site-specific participating artists and artworks see here.
In a nutshell
Spier Light Art Shining Bright 2025
From 21 March – 21 April 2025, from 18:30
At Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch, Western Cape
Entry is free, book on Dineplan
Spier Light Art 2024-Berco Wilsenach’s Written in the stars