Title: Palace of Light and Art, Warsaw 2006 – Péter Kozma (1961–2023) URL: https://kozma.foundation/works/palace-of-light-and-art-warsaw-2006/ Language: English Magyar változat: https://kozma.foundation/hu/muvek/palace-of-light-and-art-warsaw-2006/ Description: The Palace of Light and Art (2006): Péter Kozma's seven-day projection on the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, with Zsolt Fekete and Norbert Szabó. # The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention Seven-day projection on the facade of the Palace of Culture and Science, with Zsolt "Lovacska" Fekete and Norbert Szabó. **Date**: 2006, seven days **Place**: Palace of Culture and Science (PKiN) **City**: Warsaw, Poland[1] Original text Text on the archive's page > Situated in the heart of Warsaw, the Palace of Culture and Science is a monument of complex history and undeniable emotional weight. For this project, Peter Kozma collaborated with acclaimed Hungarian photographer Zsolt "Lovacska" Fekete and contemporary artist Norbert Szabo to reimagine this imposing Soviet-era structure. Over the course of seven days, the trio utilized the building's massive facade as a canvas, projecting a shifting series of images that explored the concept of expression within urban space. > This gallery documents the daily evolution of that dialogue—a visual experiment bridging the gap between a [then] 51-year-old architectural giant and the modern, unorganized space of the city growing around it. Original text Press release of the installation, from the former peterkozma.com website[2] > On the 18th of April at 8 PM you will experience the start of a Light Art Installation by Swiss-Hungarian artist Peter Kozma. Peter is widely know from Raypainting.com project carried out together with Hungarian living in Vienna artist Dorka Berkes. This time Peter came to work alone. > His projects are always contemporary art concepts which should be seen as propositions for design and architectural city landscape planning. The concept is to make a strong impact on people's imagination, shake the senses, get the people out from the standard frames of everyday perception of the city space and as a result think about the space in different categories. > His recent project in Berlin has shown a new unique view of the Brandenburg Gate. Through the visual projections the gate lost its everyday looks, people could look at it torn away from the standard monumental feeling. That has created a much stir on the issue of light in architectural design. In Warsaw Peter met a spectacular Palace of Science and Culture. Extremely emotional building placed in the center of the city. Much of the space around still is unsettled and is missing the idea for using it. Together with his fellow artist, an acknowledged Hungarian photographer Zsolt Fekerte and the contemporary artist Norbert Szabo, Peter in 7 days will show different approaches to the concept of expression in the urban space. Everyday the images displayed on the large facade of the building will change. The changes communicate the story and the experiment with the view of the unorganized space in the center of Warsaw. Palace of Light and Art as the project is called is stressing the need of the artistic interaction between the 51 year old Soviet gift to the Polish nation and the modern city that grew around it. > The pictures will be daily updated at www.peterkozma.com. Quoted unchanged, including the spellings "Fekerte" and "widely know". The release gives 18 April, 8 pm, as the start; it does not state the year. Year: 2006. The portrait caption "Peter Kozma, Warsaw, 2006" and the Hommage text ("Varsó 2006") give the same year; the work page and the press release state no year.[1] ## Images Photographs: Peter Kozma Archive. The photographers of the Light Art Installation project were Zsolt Fekete, Endre Somogyi and András Végh, "and many others"; individual credits are not known. Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 1 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 2 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 3 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 4 of 25 in the archive's gallery - Gallery (25 images) Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 5 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 6 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 7 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 8 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 9 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 10 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 11 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 12 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 13 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 14 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 15 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 16 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 17 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 18 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 19 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 20 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 21 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 22 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 23 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 24 of 25 in the archive's gallery Image: The Palace of Light and Art: An Urban Intervention, Warsaw, 2006, seven days: photograph 25 of 25 in the archive's gallery - ## Sources 1. Wikipedia (English): Péter Kozma (skier), revision 1360711204 (2026-06-23): 2. light-art.kozma.foundation: Palace of Light and Art press release (former peterkozma.com, not linked from the site navigation):