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Adventshaus Barth

24 windows, 24 days, 24 motifs: from 1 to 24 December 2025, one more window of the historic department store lit up each evening with a new animation.

Year
Dezember 2025
Location
Barth
Type
Project

From 1 to 24 December 2025, the historic department store in Barth, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, turned into an advent calendar made of light. Day by day, one of the 24 designed windows opened to reveal a new motif.

The piece as a whole is a living, detail-packed picture built from Barth's landmark buildings, monuments and artworks — familiar elements of the townscape, reinterpreted with a festive sparkle and a wink. Small, humorous animations bring each scene to life and invite passers-by to come back and look again.

Shortly before Christmas nearly every window is open, showing maritime and festive motifs from Barth: a lighthouse, a beach chair, an octopus, a sailing ship and gingerbread figures.
The facade of the old department store in Barth at night: some windows already show their motif while the rest still carry green numbered doors.
Close-up of the window projection in Barth: a crab wearing a Santa hat above a steel truss bridge, with two red baubles beside it and an unopened calendar door alongside.
All 24 doors of the projected advent calendar glow turquoise in the windows of the department store, with a row of snowflakes above.
The historic department store in Barth at dusk, with the projected advent calendar of 24 turquoise doors glowing across the first-floor windows.
Four calendar motifs for Adventshaus Barth: an octopus wearing a Santa hat, a pufferfish with an anchor and baubles, a lighthouse with fish, and a sign reading Prism Garden.

How it was built

The advent calendar was realised as a rear projection onto silk paper carefully fitted to each window. The projectors sit inside the building, the image appears on the glass and is visible from the street. That makes the installation weatherproof and allows a building to be animated for weeks without any equipment in the public space.

The project was commissioned by the private owners of the building and is set to return each year with new projection content.

A city festival, a museum night, a corporate event — tell us
about your site and your occasion, and we will tell you what it
could become.

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