Blues Before Sunrise is a project by the British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen (Hunger, Shame) presented by the Stedelijk Museum and taking place in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark. The environment has been transformed with all the street lamps emitting blue light instead of white and creating a special atmosphere.

Stedelijk Museum’s director Ann Goldstein: “McQueen’s remarkable Blues Before Sunrise will not only alter our perception of the Vondelpark, it will also heighten our sensation of routine activity and transform a common space into an uncanny, beautiful experience, at once powerfully present and knowingly elusive.”

And so it does.

Blues Before Sunrise – on view until March 25th, 2012

Things to do in Ghent: visit S.M.A.K.

I especially enjoyed the Inside Installations exhibition – here is Piano by German artist Andreas Slominski: