Creating Art in and with Nature.
ABOUT
Philipp Frank is a German light and land artist whose immersive works illuminate the subtle energies of nature. Rooted in a deep connection to landscapes, his site-specific light installations transform rocks, trees, ice and natural forms into luminous portals of presence. Through light, movement and atmosphere, his work invites moments of expanded perception, allowing the natural world to be sensed as a living field.
COMISSIONS
Philipp Frank develops selected works as permanent installations and site-specific commissions for private, architectural and public spaces.
His practice spans permanent light installations in natural environments, sculptural works and immersive interventions that are deeply connected to their site and context. Each commission is developed individually, with a focus on presence, atmosphere and the subtle energies of place.
His practice spans permanent light installations in natural environments, sculptural works and immersive interventions that are deeply connected to their site and context. Each commission is developed individually, with a focus on presence, atmosphere and the subtle energies of place.
VITA
Philipp Frank’s artistic practice has evolved over more than three decades, rooted in an early engagement with graffiti and street art. Movement, rhythm and fleeting imagery shaped his visual language from the beginning, later refined through studies in communication design and years of applied visual practice.
Parallel to his work in urban space, nature became an increasingly central field of research. Through sketches, photography, timelapse and video studies, he explored how light, shadow, weather and time inscribe themselves into surfaces. Early experiments on tree trunks, rocks and found forms laid the groundwork for a growing interest in light as a living, spatial medium.
From 2014 onwards, these investigations expanded into hybrid works combining mural painting with projection and light-based interventions in public space. A pivotal moment came in 2017 with Trinity, an audiovisual installation created for Munich’s Long Night of Museums, marking the transition toward fully site-specific light installations.
Today, Philipp Frank focuses on site-specific light installations developed in close dialogue with landscape, architecture and perception. His installations have been shown in remote landscapes and urban contexts alike — from Himalayan rock formations to Hong Kong and major light festivals such as Fête des Lumières in Lyon. His work explores light as a carrier of memory, presence and unseen energies, inviting new ways of sensing and experiencing the living world.
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC WORKS
2025
HYPNOTIC DREAM
The Henderson Art Garden, Hong Kong · Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects
Permanent audiovisual installation illuminating two ancient Chorisia trees inside Hong Kong’s landmark building. A meditative, slow-moving lightwork revealing the trees’ inner pulse and transforming the garden into a living, breathing organism of light.
LITHOGENESIS
Island of Light Festival, Smögen, Sweden
Large-scale projection mapping on a 25-meter-high, 200-meter-long granite formation. Developed through geological field research, the work visualises the fjord’s ancient crystalline structure and the slow processes that shaped it. Accompanied by ten additional site-specific works in the surrounding coastal landscape.
ECHOES OF ICE
Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc & Dunkirk Light Festival, France
Audiovisual installation exploring the life cycle of water: glacier birth, pressure, fracture, flow, and melt. Presented as a wooden glacier-inspired sculpture (5 m × 3 m). Scheduled for Metz Constellations and the Fête des Lumières in 2026.
STONE PORTALS — VAL BODENGO SERIES
Val Bodengo, Italy
Site-specific audiovisual projections on towering alpine stone formations, revealing hidden vibrational fields within one of Italy’s most dramatic valleys.
MYKONOS LIGHT CODES — HOFA × SCORPIOS ENCOUNTERS
Mykonos, Greece
Site-specific light installation commissioned by HOFA (London) for Scorpios Encounters. Created on stone structures and natural elements across the Mykonian landscape, accompanied by an exclusive fine-art print series.
COSMIC CAPPADOCIA
Cappadocia, Turkey
Audiovisual installation on volcanic tuff formations inside the region’s cave landscapes — a meditative expansion of Philipp Frank’s stone-mapping practice.
TALES OF ARCADIA 2.0
Bodrum, Turkey
Projection mapping on a monumental sand sculpture created with the Swedish artist Gorm. The sculpture served as a temporary ethereal monolith animated through light, pattern, and geological motion.
2024
CORAL GHOSTS
Fête des Lumières, Lyon, France
Immersive installation created from 350 kg of recovered ghost nets, transformed into a coral-like structure and brought to life with slow organic light-motion. Presented on Place de la République.
PORTICI FESTIVAL — BOLOGNA
Bologna, Italy
Three interconnected works under the historic portici arcades: projections on cypress trees, a hologram fan sculpture, and a 100-meter immersive light corridor responding to the architectural rhythm of the arcades.
DANCING TREE — TALES OF ARCADIA
Datça, Turkey
Six-minute audiovisual installation animating a monumental tree; light becomes movement, resonance, and breath — a vibrational portrait of the tree’s subtle presence.
TRANSFORMATIONS
India Art Fair, New Delhi · Sā Ladakh (with Skarma Sonam Tashi)
Audiovisual installation constructed from hand-built cardboard structures inspired by Ladakh’s mountainous terrain — exploring change, impermanence, and the material cycles of earth.
2023
LIQUID STATES — HIMALAYAN EDITION
Sā Ladakh Land Art Exhibition (Leh & Suru Valley, India)
Projection-mapped installation on Himalayan rock formations at elevations above 3,500 m. The work visualises water scarcity, melt cycles, and elemental states of water in one of Earth’s most extreme environments.
CÔTE DE GRANITE ROSE
Brittany, France
Series of coastal installations on the region’s iconic pink granite formations — revealing mineral memory and slow geological time embedded within the stones.
TRINITY 2.0
Munich, Germany
Curated re-exhibition of the 2017 work Trinity, presented in a refined sculptural format.
FORMENTERA ROCK SERIES
Formentera, Spain
Series of abstract light installations on coastal rock structures, filmed during multiple visits.
2022
WAVES OF LIGHT
European Championships, Olympic Lake, Munich
Hydroscreen installation projected onto a 50-meter water screen — a large-scale public commission during the European Championships.
ELEMENTS II — GEIRANGERFJORD EDITION
Geiranger, Norway
Projection mapping on vertical fjord walls in one of Norway’s most iconic UNESCO landscapes. Continuation of the ELEMENTS cycle.
2021
MYCELIUM NETWORK
Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul
Commissioned projection-mapping installation on the underside of the museum’s balconies, visualising subterranean fungal communication systems as flowing patterns of light.
VISION ART FESTIVAL
Crans-Montana, Switzerland
Outdoor site-specific installations across alpine rock surfaces and mountain structures.
ELEMENTS — GEIRANGERFJORD EDITION
Geiranger, Norway
First fjord edition of the ELEMENTS cycle, mapping elemental patterns onto steep fjord geology.
2020
2222 PORTAL
Munich, Germany
Audiovisual installation for a digital art event: a hand-painted mural activated through a seven-minute projection sequence.
2019
ELEMENTS — SHORT FILM & INSTALLATION SERIES
Munich, Germany
45 nature-based light installations filmed along the Isar river — rocks, trees and river formations — condensed into a 5:55 short film on the five elements.
2018
COASTAL ROCK LIGHTSCAPES — THAILAND SERIES
Koh Phangan / Thailand
Early site-specific projection works on coastal rock formations. Continued during subsequent visits in 2020 and 2022.
2017
TRINITY
St. Ludwig’s Church, Munich
15-minute site-specific installation created for the Long Night of Museums, accompanied by live organ improvisation.
HYPNOTIC DREAM
The Henderson Art Garden, Hong Kong · Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects
Permanent audiovisual installation illuminating two ancient Chorisia trees inside Hong Kong’s landmark building. A meditative, slow-moving lightwork revealing the trees’ inner pulse and transforming the garden into a living, breathing organism of light.
LITHOGENESIS
Island of Light Festival, Smögen, Sweden
Large-scale projection mapping on a 25-meter-high, 200-meter-long granite formation. Developed through geological field research, the work visualises the fjord’s ancient crystalline structure and the slow processes that shaped it. Accompanied by ten additional site-specific works in the surrounding coastal landscape.
ECHOES OF ICE
Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc & Dunkirk Light Festival, France
Audiovisual installation exploring the life cycle of water: glacier birth, pressure, fracture, flow, and melt. Presented as a wooden glacier-inspired sculpture (5 m × 3 m). Scheduled for Metz Constellations and the Fête des Lumières in 2026.
STONE PORTALS — VAL BODENGO SERIES
Val Bodengo, Italy
Site-specific audiovisual projections on towering alpine stone formations, revealing hidden vibrational fields within one of Italy’s most dramatic valleys.
MYKONOS LIGHT CODES — HOFA × SCORPIOS ENCOUNTERS
Mykonos, Greece
Site-specific light installation commissioned by HOFA (London) for Scorpios Encounters. Created on stone structures and natural elements across the Mykonian landscape, accompanied by an exclusive fine-art print series.
COSMIC CAPPADOCIA
Cappadocia, Turkey
Audiovisual installation on volcanic tuff formations inside the region’s cave landscapes — a meditative expansion of Philipp Frank’s stone-mapping practice.
TALES OF ARCADIA 2.0
Bodrum, Turkey
Projection mapping on a monumental sand sculpture created with the Swedish artist Gorm. The sculpture served as a temporary ethereal monolith animated through light, pattern, and geological motion.
2024
CORAL GHOSTS
Fête des Lumières, Lyon, France
Immersive installation created from 350 kg of recovered ghost nets, transformed into a coral-like structure and brought to life with slow organic light-motion. Presented on Place de la République.
PORTICI FESTIVAL — BOLOGNA
Bologna, Italy
Three interconnected works under the historic portici arcades: projections on cypress trees, a hologram fan sculpture, and a 100-meter immersive light corridor responding to the architectural rhythm of the arcades.
DANCING TREE — TALES OF ARCADIA
Datça, Turkey
Six-minute audiovisual installation animating a monumental tree; light becomes movement, resonance, and breath — a vibrational portrait of the tree’s subtle presence.
TRANSFORMATIONS
India Art Fair, New Delhi · Sā Ladakh (with Skarma Sonam Tashi)
Audiovisual installation constructed from hand-built cardboard structures inspired by Ladakh’s mountainous terrain — exploring change, impermanence, and the material cycles of earth.
2023
LIQUID STATES — HIMALAYAN EDITION
Sā Ladakh Land Art Exhibition (Leh & Suru Valley, India)
Projection-mapped installation on Himalayan rock formations at elevations above 3,500 m. The work visualises water scarcity, melt cycles, and elemental states of water in one of Earth’s most extreme environments.
CÔTE DE GRANITE ROSE
Brittany, France
Series of coastal installations on the region’s iconic pink granite formations — revealing mineral memory and slow geological time embedded within the stones.
TRINITY 2.0
Munich, Germany
Curated re-exhibition of the 2017 work Trinity, presented in a refined sculptural format.
FORMENTERA ROCK SERIES
Formentera, Spain
Series of abstract light installations on coastal rock structures, filmed during multiple visits.
2022
WAVES OF LIGHT
European Championships, Olympic Lake, Munich
Hydroscreen installation projected onto a 50-meter water screen — a large-scale public commission during the European Championships.
ELEMENTS II — GEIRANGERFJORD EDITION
Geiranger, Norway
Projection mapping on vertical fjord walls in one of Norway’s most iconic UNESCO landscapes. Continuation of the ELEMENTS cycle.
2021
MYCELIUM NETWORK
Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul
Commissioned projection-mapping installation on the underside of the museum’s balconies, visualising subterranean fungal communication systems as flowing patterns of light.
VISION ART FESTIVAL
Crans-Montana, Switzerland
Outdoor site-specific installations across alpine rock surfaces and mountain structures.
ELEMENTS — GEIRANGERFJORD EDITION
Geiranger, Norway
First fjord edition of the ELEMENTS cycle, mapping elemental patterns onto steep fjord geology.
2020
2222 PORTAL
Munich, Germany
Audiovisual installation for a digital art event: a hand-painted mural activated through a seven-minute projection sequence.
2019
ELEMENTS — SHORT FILM & INSTALLATION SERIES
Munich, Germany
45 nature-based light installations filmed along the Isar river — rocks, trees and river formations — condensed into a 5:55 short film on the five elements.
2018
COASTAL ROCK LIGHTSCAPES — THAILAND SERIES
Koh Phangan / Thailand
Early site-specific projection works on coastal rock formations. Continued during subsequent visits in 2020 and 2022.
2017
TRINITY
St. Ludwig’s Church, Munich
15-minute site-specific installation created for the Long Night of Museums, accompanied by live organ improvisation.
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