Llum BCN returns on February 6 to 8. Llum BCN comes back to the streets of Barcelona this February. El Poblenou will be the main stage for this internationally renowned festival, one of the most anticipated events on the city’s cultural calendar.

Website: Llum Barcelona 2026

LLUM BARCELONA 2026

Llum BCN is a grand laboratory of the nighttime landscape, featuring artists with established careers on the international scene. For three nights, the festival will bring together creative explorers from various disciplines: art, lighting and interactive environment design, architecture, expanded audiovisuals, and performing arts. Beyond its festive nature and being a spectacular ephemeral show, Llum BCN is conceived as an opportunity to ask questions, challenge our preconceived notions of urban space, and create new models of participation and coexistence in public spaces.

Poblenou transforms once again into a large open-air experimentation lab, using light as a creative medium and the work of artists, designers, and architects from around the world exploring possibilities offered by new techniques such as dynamic lighting, large-scale projection, and interactive environments in urban spaces.

It’s a way to discover the city in a different light and also serves as a reflection on where and how the language of public space can evolve in the future.

LIGHT SHOWS IN POBLENOU

As Barcelona gets dark, it lights up, transforming its buildings, squares, courtyards, and unique corners to tell us new stories with the power of light. With the participation of emerging artists, you can enjoy a leading light festival.

Every year, we’ve had the pleasure of experiencing Llum Barcelona, and we highly recommend it. It’s worth going early to find parking and plan the circuit of spaces to visit. There are different schedules, although light shows are usually repeated.

Keep in mind that some buildings and spaces may be very crowded, so if you’re going with children, it’s advisable to keep an eye on them, and depending on where you go with strollers, you might encounter a bit of a hassle.

Still, we highly recommend the experience. Stroll, enjoy, experiment, and be amazed by the light, music, and color installations.

NEWS OF LLUM BCN 2026

The 2026 edition of Llum BCN introduces a number of new features that strengthen its innovative and family-friendly character. The festival of light arts expands its programme with installations specifically designed to engage with Barcelona’s architecture, combining works by internationally renowned artists with projects developed by university schools of design, art and architecture. This approach creates more diverse and accessible night-time routes, allowing families with children to enjoy culture, light and urban spaces in an educational and engaging way.

One of the main highlights of Llum BCN 2026 is the inclusion of ten light installations combined with contemporary dance across different districts of the city, extending the festival beyond its traditional locations. This initiative forms part of the celebration of Barcelona 2026 as World Capital of Architecture and showcases emblematic buildings through site-specific creations. With artistic direction by lighting designer Maria Güell i Ordis and collaboration from Austrian curator Birgit Lill-Schnabl, the festival offers a renewed cultural experience that invites audiences of all ages to rediscover the city at night.

ARTISTIC INSTALLATIONS OF LLUM BARCELONA

It’s advisable to plan your visit; on the website, you can check the map with all the spaces featuring a light show or installation.

Each edition of Llum BCN is a great civic celebration. It’s also a collective experiment of perception and participation, an urban laboratory where we explore how we could contemplate and inhabit our shared territory—the city—from new and unprecedented perspectives.

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Some of the places or spaces where you can enjoy a light, music, and color show include: Plaça de les Glòries, Los Encantes, the façade of Disse

GASTRONOMIC SPACE

You can also find a gastronomic space in different areas where all festival visitors can enjoy a meeting point and rest while tasting different foods.