Mycelium Field
light installation
mentor: Matej Bizovičar
Mirje Park // until 20 June
OPENING: Tuesday, 26 May 2026, at 9:30 p.m.

The Mycelium Field is an international participatory project, dedicated to children and youth, who create diverse light installations from discarded materials in workshops. To date, more than ten schools from Slovenia, Sweden and Norway have joined the project. Some workshops were also held in elderly homes, where elementary school pupils created together with the older generation, adding an intergenerational dimension to the project, alongside the international one.
Participants drew their inspiration from the underground fungal network, which, in nature, connects organisms through intricate networks and facilitates the circulation of matter. Mycelium disintegrates organic material and returns it to the process of creating new life, thereby functioning as a natural system of transformation and recycling. The project translates this principle into the creative process: discarded objects acquire new shape, function and meaning, becoming the carriers of light. The installation grows with each new workshop and reflects processes of decomposition, transformation and regrowth. The Mycelium Field thus represents a living structure that emerges through collective work and the transformation of materials. /M. Bizovičar/

Participants: pupils of primary schools: OŠ Dravlje, OŠ Škofja Loka, Ringstad skule, Valldal skule, Stordal skule, Eidsdal skule, Sunnylven skule, Geiranger skule, youth center Underground, primary school Smögen, primary school, Kungshamn, UNDERGROUND Institute, Råslätt / Jönköping, primary school Ljungarum / Jönköping, Östra Skola, Vaggeryd, primary school Skillingaryd

Homes for elderly people: Stranda omsorgssenter, Valldal omsorgssenter, Sunnylven omsorgssenter

Music: Josip Maršić

Production: Dulce Ahlberg / Human Lights festival
Co-producer: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML), Glej Theatre
In cooperation with: Råslätt / Jönköping, June Avfall – center for waste management, Jönköping, REMIDA – creating center for recycling (Vaggeryd), Sotenäs Marina – center for recyling