How Light Transforms Yarkon Park: Inside the LUMAGICA Festival
Discover how the LUMAGICA festival transforms Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park into a glowing nighttime wonderland with millions of LEDs, giant water screens, and illuminated art.
Daytime turns a hill in Yarkon Park into ordinary scenery, but after dark, the LUMAGICA festival turns it into a living stage for laser shows. Opened on November 12 at Ganei Yehoshua, the glowing exhibition redefines how visitors experience public space by deliberately guiding their gaze across dramatic elevations and intricate ground-level details.
Designed by light artists Anat and Sivan Farag in collaboration with MK Illumination, the immersive route features over three million LED lights spread across the park grounds. A field of roughly 30,000 illuminated tulips draws the eye downward with dense, repetitive shapes, while the animal zone showcases handcrafted, three-dimensional sculptures that shift the visual scale. Along the path, interactive installations invite visitors to step directly inside the luminous displays.
One of the most striking technical feats utilizes an unexpected material: a massive water screen stretching up to 30 meters wide and reaching heights of around 10 meters. Moving water serves as a dynamic projection surface for custom video art paired with an original musical score by Misha Anton, creating an ever-changing canvas that highlights the innovative approach behind modern outdoor lighting design.
