Type: Special exhibition
Role(s): Lighting designer
Setting: Built in the museum's cinema; structured as a tour through 40 years of Danish history with D-A-D as host
Concert experience: Custom truss rig with moving heads and static DMX fixtures, surrounding a video wall of footage shot from the band's perspective on their 40th anniversary tour
Show control: QLab, synchronizing lighting to the concert video
Cinema integration: Existing Helvar/Dali infrastructure modified for periodic exhibition/concert mode switching (QLab → UDP → Helvar)
Showcase lighting: Custom LED inside flightcases repurposed as display cases (Casambi)
Set lighting: Custom integrations including glamour-lit mirrors that doubled as video-interview displays
On display: 3 March – 1 September 2024
Credits:
Ulla Hahn Ranmar — curator Stephanie
Brun Svensson — exhibition architect
Mikkel Hjorth Hansen — AV lead
Joachim Munck / Barsk — concert video production
Overview
I was the lighting designer for Denmark After Dark; a special exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark, marking the 40th anniversary of Danish rock band D-A-D and tracing 40 years of Danish and global history through their story. Built in the museum's cinema, it was structured as a tour with the band as host, ending with visitors on stage for a concert finale.
The concert finale
The centerpiece put visitors on stage with the band: a video wall played concert footage shot from the band's perspective on their 40th anniversary tour, with a custom truss rig of moving heads and static DMX fixtures surrounding the space. I contributed to the scenography by designing and building the rig, and synchronized the lighting to the video in QLab so the room responded in real time with what was on screen.
Exhibition lighting
The cinema's existing Helvar/Dali infrastructure was extended and reprogrammed to switch the room periodically between exhibition and concert modes, driven from QLab via UDP. Elsewhere, I designed custom LED installations: lighting inside flightcases that had been repurposed as showcases (Casambi), and integrated lighting in the scenography — including glamour-lit mirrors that doubled as displays for video interviews. I also worked with the museum's AV team on the wider exhibition tech.
Afterlife — the main hall
After the exhibition closed, the moving heads from the concert rig were moved to the museum's main hall to give it flexible event lighting. I designed and programmed the system (Pharos) and modeled custom mounts in Rhino, which were fabricated to spec.