Manar Abu Dhabi is a large-scale public light art exhibition that unfolds across the emirate’s islands, mangroves, and urban edges, bringing together newly commissioned works by international and Emirati artists to explore light as a tool for navigation, perception, and connection to place. Centered on site-specific installations, the exhibition transforms natural landscapes into immersive environments where viewers move through shifting fields of illumination, encountering works like Gateway, a sequence of steel arches that project parallel planes of laser light through mist, forming a slow, atmospheric passage that changes with wind and humidity. Together, these works trace a luminous route through Abu Dhabi, inviting visitors to experience the city as a series of perceptual encounters shaped by environment, movement, and the subtle dynamics of light. 

The Light Compass

Nov 15, 2025 - Jan 4, 2026
Manar Abu Dhabi
Al Jubail Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE


Gallery Sonder presents Lensing Water, a comprehensive solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Lachlan Turczan, curated by Genevieve Williams. Working at the intersection of physics, perception, and poetics, Turczan uses water, light, and sound to reveal the hidden forces that animate the natural world. The exhibition brings together several bodies of work, including mirrored Sympathetic Resonance sculptures, aqueous Contact Lens vessels, archival Watergram prints, polished stainless steel Annular Optic wall works, and a new laser tank sculpture. Together these works offer a view into an evolving practice grounded in scientific inquiry and visual wonder.

Lensing Water

July 25 - September 14, 2025
Sonder Gallery
Corona del Mar, CA, USA


Making the Invisible, Visible

April 7-13, 2025
Milan, Italy

Making the Invisible Visible is an immersive exhibition by Studio Lachlan Turczan in collaboration with Google Design Studio, presented at Milan Design Week 2025. Installed across a 9,000 sqft section of Garage 21, the project centers on Turczan’s Lucida light sculptures, which transform the space into a field of sculpted illumination. Columns and veils of light shift in response to the presence of visitors, softening the boundary between the material and the immaterial. Grounded in a shared interest in art, science, and technology, the exhibition frames design as a process of revelation, bringing otherwise unseen forces of perception, interaction, and form into view. 


Confluence is a collaborative exhibition by Los Angeles artists Lily Clark and Lachlan Turczan, presented at the VDL House. Inspired by Richard Neutra’s vision of biorealism, the exhibition transforms the home’s pools, from rooftop to garden, into intimate explorations of water, light, and space. Clark’s delicate droplets trace the movement of water, while Turczan’s optical sculptures bend light through water, creating moments where art, architecture, and nature converge.

Confluence

Dec 20th, 2024 - Jan 21st, 2025
Neutra VDL
Los Angeles, USA


Waterwise

May 18th, 2024
California Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA

The California Botanic Garden’s Waterwise Festival is a cherished community event dedicated to promoting sustainable landscaping practices, celebrating California native plants, and educating attendees on how individual actions can contribute to watershed health.

We installed Seism in the Cultivar Garden’s reflecting pool, transforming this body of water into a mesmerizing network of dancing waves. Seism recalls the tectonic movements and vibrations of the Earth beneath our feet.


Ocean and Sky

April 16th - 21st, 2024
Forteleoni Gallery, Milan, IT

Forteleoni Gallery presents Ocean and Sky, a solo exhibition by California-based artist Lachlan Turczan during Salone del Mobile 2024. The exhibition fills the gallery’s windows with works from Turczan’s Veil series.

By day, ink-black pools of water vibrate with infrasonic frequencies, forming liquid sculptures that shift perception through changing rhythmic patterns.

At night, columns of light appear to hover above the pools as mist drifts through them, revealing swirling air currents while the cymatic wave patterns in the water scatter light into intricate reflections.

Art in Resonance

March 25th - May 17th, 2024
Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong

On 25 March 2024, The Peninsula Hotels relaunched its global art program Art in Resonance at the flagship The Peninsula Hong Kong during Art Basel Hong Kong, presenting newly commissioned works by Elise Morin, Kingsley Ng, Lachlan Turczan, and Saya Woolfalk.

Turczan’s Harmonic Resonance features a 1.6-meter parabolic mirror enclosing a shallow pool of water, where infrasonic tones generate shifting wave patterns that shape reflected light. The work reflects the artist’s guiding principle: sound shapes water, and water shapes light.



Frequency Studies

January 23rd - March 8th, 2024
Kodo Hotel & Cafe, Los Angeles

Building on his early studies of water vibration (cymatics), Lachlan Turczan’s Frequency Studies explores resonance in light and color. The exhibition includes Tidal Resonance, a 5-foot stainless steel vessel where oscillating tones transform water into wave patterns, the watercolor series Twenty-Two Twilights examining subtle shifts in twilight color, and Annular Optic, a parabolic ring that produces changing bands of light depending on viewing position. Together, the works investigate how oscillation can activate materials and reshape perception.


REFRACTED IDENTITIES, SHARED FUTURES

Noor Riyadh
November 30th 2023 - March 2nd, 2024
Jax District, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Curated by Neville Wakefield

For the 2023 installment of Noor Riyadh, the largest light festival in the world, Turczan was asked by curator Neville Wakefield to install Wavespace.

“In the ever-evolving tapestry of human expression and exploration, art has often acted as a luminous guide. Throughout our many histories, it has not only brought individuals together but also bridged the various disciplines that shape and sometimes separate our existence. In this regard, artists have become our thought-leaders. As intersectional thinkers, they are uniquely poised to draw upon the wisdom expressed by science, technology, religion, and culture to forge new perspectives within this ever-changing constellation of ideas. ‘Refracted Identities, Shared Futures’, the third edition of the Noor Riyadh builds upon this premise. Through the work of thirty artists hailing from diverse corners of the globe it proposes a journey into a multidimensional world of light. Unique backgrounds also bring together a diversity of approaches. Here we find works that explore ideas that range from mythology to Astrophysics, from meditations on light as soundwaves to ideas of swarm intelligence thereby creating complex interactive webs that transcend traditional boundaries of space, time and spirituality that encase ideas of existence and art.”


Shaped by Water

April 16 - 23, 2023
Milan, Italy

Shaped by Water was an exhibition created by Studio Lachlan Turczan and Google Design team for the Milan Design Week in 2023. The result of a decade of research, Turczan created 2 artworks titled Sympathetic Resonance & Wavespace. These artworks formed a 9,150 square foot custom-built experience, that demonstrated how the powerful compounds in the natural world — water — can serve as a teacher and medium for our forms of art and technology.

Turczan’s art practice, focusing on the optical and sonic properties of water, offered an immersive, sensorial experience exploring our connection to water as humans and as a source of inspiration.