Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 November 2025.
The UK’s light art biennial returns this November, with spectacular light artworks, lighting up bridges, streets and buildings around Durham.
Lumiere 2025 will take place over three evenings, from Thursday to Saturday, 13-15 November. The brand new programme promises to feed the imagination with magic and joy, transforming Durham City once again into an illuminated art gallery.
Each Lumiere invites local and internationally-renowned artists to create works that reimagine familiar buildings and public spaces, changing the way we experience our urban surroundings.
Palace Green
Originally commissioned to celebrate the life of Bodyshop founder Anita Roddick, this joyous installation has been gradually built up over the last twenty years. The installation is ever-evolving and sustainable, with new varieties of flower being added each season.
Nave of Durham Cathedral
A poetic confrontation in stone and light, set within the vast and solemn interior of Durham Cathedral. EVERYONE EVER draws attention to the layered histories held within the stone of the building – belief, power, persistence, and presence. Referencing both the land that existed before the Cathedral and the technological age that shapes how we perceive and remember.
Cloister Garth at Durham Cathedral
For centuries, Durham Cathedral has been a place of sanctuary, solace and spiritual exploration. Only from the cloister, with its roof space open to the heavens, can the visitor glimpse the sky above. Commissioned by Point North, responding to the Cathedral’s extraordinary history. Composed of hundreds of handmade lanterns, Solace captures a suspended moment in time, as if each lantern has been caught mid-flight. Drifting into the distance, they invite audiences to imagine the lanterns’ journey and, in turn, reflect and consider their own.
The College and South Bailey
Featuring animated landscapes sourced from grassland and forest, hedgerows and giant hogweed, bonsai trees given the gift of scale, woodland sprites and flying creatures. The audience is invited to follow a trail of eight magical installations that fill The College and the South Bailey with a series of ethereal electronic encounters with the natural world.
