Niels Bohr’s pioneering atomic model, explaining the structure of atoms, shook the scientific world at the beginning of the 20th century. In the artwork Kick it, the visitor can initiate a reaction where the light jumps from ball to ball like an electron.

Niels Bohr was a passionate football player and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 “for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them”.

Radiation is the difference in energy created when electrons decide to jump to a lower energy orbit, around the atom nucleus. In this artwork, the light moves like electrons, jumping from one place to the next. It invites up to ten members of the audience at the time to play and explore how the light moves and reacts.

The artwork was made in collaboration with Zsolnay Light Festival.
Photo: Kevin Harald Campean