Instytut Polski w Brukseli

12.02.2026 - 15.02.2026 Aktualności, Arts, Events, News, Others

For 10 years now, the Bright Brussels Festival has been lighting up our winter evenings! And for this anniversary edition, it’s going all out: a majestic illuminated trail through the historic centre of the capital, from 12 to 15 February 2026.
The Polish Institute Brussels is once again joining the festival, having invited a team of artist to create a stunning installation in the courtyard of the Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles.

Springs of Love is an immersive augmented reality (AR) art project that merges contemporary art and digital technology to create an emotional and interactive experience. The work takes the form of a virtual, abstract and animated Sculpture of Love, accessible through a digital device and anchored in a real public space where spectators gather, reflect and connect.
Conceived as a symbolic meeting point for peace and love, the project responds to the anxiety and violence of our time by encouraging empathy, attention and shared presence. Through AR technology, the sculpture invites viewers to slow down, move around the work, explore multiple perspectives and experience a moment of collective contemplation.
The project was created by Gabi von Seltmann, a Polish-born interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores memory, identity and public space through performance, photography, video and digital media, together with visual artist Popesz Csaba Láng. The project was developed in collaboration with digital artists and VR programmers Javier Muñoz and Antonio Serrano Martín.
The sound layer of the installation features the voice and poetry of Urszula Honek, an award-winning Polish poet and prose writer, whose texts add an intimate and lyrical dimension to the experience. 
Together, the collaborators combine artistic research, immersive technologies and critical digital practices to create a poetic and meaningful work that invites reflection, connection and hope.

May peace and love unite us all.

Gabi von Seltmann is an interdisciplinary artist born in Poland, art producer and animator. In her performance-based art, she uses various mediums, such as photography, video, and 3D outdoor projections. Her art seeks to answer questions on memory, identity and significance of historical events.
In her projects, Gabi reaches a wide audience, from people interested in the history of minority communities, to the general public. She believes that, thanks to art shown in public spaces, art in its most powerful potential becomes accessible to everyone. It is possible to move the human imagination, encourage reflection and positive action, and the feeling of hope.

“I believe that art has the power to restore memory, brings hope, inspire and heals.”

Popesz Csaba Láng  is a visual artis deeply rooted in digital technologies. Together with Elwira Wojtunik they create artworks and experiences in the form of interactive multimedia installations, immersive and extended reality art projects (AR, VR, XR) expanding the boundaries of digital tools in the field of visual art. Their works have been presented at significant international digital media art exhibitions and events around the world, such as ~PdCon in New York, Museums Quartier in Vienna, Akarenga Soko Gallery in Yokohama, Japan, ISEA in South Africa among others. They were granted the Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland and got the prestigious Japanese OMOSIROI award for digital innovation.

Javier Muñoz is a digital artist and VR programmer from Granada, Spain and a graduate in Game Development in Madrid. A multidisciplinary creator working at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds.
As a programmer, he has solid experience in designing interactive experiences, while as an artist he explores the fusion of real and virtual environments — presented in visual installations on international stages including the Athens Digital Arts Festival and Flow Digital Theatre in Ankara (Turkey). He also performs as a DJ, regarded as a pioneer of virtual reality performances, and has taken part in national festivals such as Ultreia in Madrid.

Antonio Serrano Martín is an XR creator and web-based immersive creative coder working at the intersection of technology and magic. As part of the studio Nowar, he explores how immersive technologies can move beyond spectacle and advertising to become tools for connection, participation, and cultural expression. His practice focuses on WebAR and WebXR as open, accessible formats that use the web as a shared spacelowering barriers and inviting wider audiences into immersive experiences without friction or exclusivity. Driven by the belief that technology should serve creativity, and not the other way around, his work investigates new ways of storytelling, presence, and interaction for the 21st century.

Urszula Honek, Polish poet and writer, weaves dreamlike narratives where provincial everyday life intertwines with a fairy-tale universe. Her sensual language and romantic sensitivity to nature give her a singular literary voice. Her debut short story collection, Białe Noce, already translated into English (White Nights, MTO Press, trans. Kate Webster) and Dutch (Witte nachten, trans. Charlotte Pothuizen, De Bezige Bij), was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 and shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024.