Ischgl Has Winter Fun With LEGO City
Whether up to seven meter high LEGO sculptures at the 30th snow sculpture competition “Shapes in White” or the highest LEGO fan exhibition in the world with nine large LEGO models and special building activities - Ischgl transforms the Silvretta Arena outdoors and indoors in winter into a huge art gallery and surprises with completely new LEGO dimensions. NFT option included on the winning snow sculptures.
This winter, visitors to Ischgl cannot miss the LEGO brick. Whether outdoors as huge snow sculptures or indoors as oversized LEGO models - distributed throughout the valley and in the ski area, the colorful cult building blocks that are popular around the world are skilfully presented. What can you see and experience in Ischgl related to LEGO City, when and where?
LEGO snow art: 30 years of “Shapes in White”
When Ischgl calls for the 30th “Shapes in White” snow sculpture competition in January, artists’ heads all over the world will be smoking. This year the event has a broad “LEGO” motto. After viewing all the submitted designs, the Ischgl and LEGO jury selects the ten most beautiful and invites these international sculptor couples to sculpt their vision of the globally popular LEGO bricks and figures from Ischgl snow and to transform the ski area into a huge open-air gallery . The rules are simple: whether it's a LEGO castle, a ship or hero figures like Batman or Superman - whoever brings their idea to life in the most detailed way wins. The chosen ones will have time to build their up to seven meter high LEGO sculptures from January 8th to 13th, 2024. There will also be a predetermined LEGO-themed sculpture designed by last year's winning couple. If you want to look over the shoulders of the artists at work, you can visit the individual locations throughout the ski area during the construction phase. On January 13th, the Ischgl jury will choose the winning sculptures. A map with explanations and locations of the eleven “Shapes in White” is available free of charge on site. All information: www.ischgl.com
LEGO record: Highest LEGO fan exhibition in the world in Ischgl
From the carnival holidays, winter sports enthusiasts in Ischgl can admire the highest LEGO fan exhibition in the world in the Pardorama on the Pardatschgrat at 2,624 meters above sea level. The builders: Adult LEGO fans, also called AFOLs or “Adult Fans of LEGO”, who are currently still hard at work on their creations in basements, garages and living rooms in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. To be discovered by young and old from February 3rd to 25th, 2024: fantastic worlds, imaginative MOCs (My Own Creation), impressive replicas of well-known buildings and a lot of creativity. As part of the exhibition, families and children immerse themselves in the world of the most popular LEGO themes, freely build their own models or win great prizes.
Traveling in Ischgl with the LEGO Discovery Pass
Under the motto “LEGO City: Your City – No Limits” and “Ischgl: Your Holidays – No Limits”, Ischgl visitors can now pick up a LEGO Discovery Pass at all cable car ticket offices or from the tourist office and go on an exploration tour. In the cable car stations of the Silvretta Arena and the Silvretta Therme there are oversized LEGO figures made by professional LEGO builders that took many hours to build from thousands of LEGO bricks. Hard-working explorers meet Frozen Elsa, Santa Claus, a snowman, a LEGO family or the Ischgl logo and have the opportunity to win great prizes at the end of their tour. Good to know: Activities for young and old LEGO fans are also planned in the ski area during the Easter period on the weekends between March 16 and April 7, 2024.
All information, promotions and locations: www.ischgl.com/lego.
“Shapes in White” as “crypto art”
Once completed, the Ischgl “Forms in White” will become art for eternity. After digital, photographic processing, the individual snow sculptures can be purchased and traded as NFT (Non-Fungible Token) in the form of crypto art on the online marketplace Open Sea with Castellocoins. All information: www. Formeninweiss-nft.com
“Shapes in White”: How too much snow became an art project
What are we going to do with all this snow? Art – what else! With this idea, the snow sculpture project “Shapes in White” was launched 30 years ago. Since then, sculptors from all over the world have been sending their designs to the jury of the Ischgl Snow Sculpture Competition every year. This selects the most beautiful submissions and invites ten pairs of artists to perform them in the Silvretta Arena. The snow artists then have five days to create their up to seven meter high masterpieces out of snow in the 239 km ski area. The annual changing motto will be announced in advance. A wide variety of themes have already been imaginatively implemented with sculptures by the founders of Silvrettaseilbahn AG for the 50th anniversary (2014), sea creatures (1995) and dragons (2012). This winter, winter sports enthusiasts and snow art lovers can look forward to exciting interpretations of the “LEGO” theme at the 30th “Shapes in White” snow sculpture competition.
