The competition for this year's Genius Loci Festival has begun and artists have until June 15th to submit their work. All information about the competition and a very special Genius Loci 2025 can be found here.

After three successful days and nights, our GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR facade projection festival came to an end at midnight on Sunday the 1st of September 2024. This year's event took place at the Buchenwald Memorial with the motto ‘It's 5 to 33’. Three of the site's facades were projected as part of the festival: the Seven Relief Steles, the Street of Nations and the Bell Tower.

This year's edition was the largest and most extensive Genius Loci Festival: over 40 projectors, 80 loudspeakers, hundreds of lights, kilometres of power cables and four generators were needed to cover the extensive memorial site.

Looking back, the festival was a great success. This year, there were over 100 entries for the competition from 22 different countries. Renowned media such as Die Zeit, the MDR, N-tv, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Stern and many more also reported on this year's Genius Loci Weimar.

We were delighted to receive consistently positive feedback from viewers and participating artists, especially as the character of the festival differed significantly from previous editions in terms of subject matter, organisation and emotionality. For us as the festival team and the participating artists, it was also a great honour to play a venue of such national, international and historical significance.

In addition to the artists, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all the sponsors, the various municipal organisations of the city of Weimar and everyone involved in the festival.