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Illumination of the hylive Expo Pavilion

Thomas Fischer — Sat, 31 May 2025 08:18:35 +0000

Illumination in the Hylive Expo Pavilion - Light art in the former Dutch Pavilion

Under the motto #Expo2000Revisited, Hanover celebrated the 25th anniversary of Expo 2000 with a diverse program of events in the Expo Park. A special highlight was the spectacular illumination of the former Dutch pavilion – now known as the Hylive Expo Pavilion – by AVMS GmbH, which transformed the once abandoned building into a glowing work of art.

Impressive number of LED spotlights, static lighting spots and floodlights in use

The Dutch pavilion was already regarded as an architectural masterpiece and a symbol of sustainability and innovation at Expo 2000. After years of vacancy, the building has been revitalized in recent years and now serves as a creative event venue. For the anniversary, it was staged using state-of-the-art lighting technology from AVMS – a tribute to the visionary architecture and the Expo’s idea of connecting people, nature and technology.

The lighting design transformed the striking levels of the pavilion into a lively narrative of colors, shapes and movement. Visitors were able to experience the building at night in a completely new light – an impressive interplay of history, technology and artistic vision.

AVMS GmbH, a leading provider of event technology, relied on energy-efficient LED technology, dynamic mapping effects and a dramaturgically coordinated lighting choreography. The illumination was not only a technical masterpiece, but also an emotional look back at Expo 2000 – and a look forward to the future of the Expo site as a place of encounter and innovation.

The event was part of a larger programme organized by the city of Hanover, the Expo Park Association and numerous partners. In addition to light art, there were exhibitions, panel discussions, music and guided tours of the historic pavilions.

Pictures: Peter Weihs

Battery headlight
LED headlights
Lightmax Spots
Effect spotlights
Lighting control
Competent planners and technicians
Motivated and hardworking helpers

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Light staging at gala event

Thomas Fischer — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 12:13:02 +0000

Impressive light show at gala event in historic building inspires guests

Diese faszinierende Lichtinszenierung bei einer Galaveranstaltung beeindruckte die Gäste. Bewegte Scheinwerfer und Washlights beleuchteten das historische Gebäude von innen und von außen. Auch der Park wurde wunderschön beleuchtet.

Gigantic number of moving lamps, static lighting spots, and area spotlights in use

This gala event for an industrial client was certainly not an everyday assignment for the crew of AVMS. The historic venue was ceremoniously staged from the outside with many spotlights. Both the building and the beautiful park were colorfully illuminated.

The large ballroom was equipped with a large stage along with the side aisles. These were made with Atomic Design Panels and Cameo Wash-Lights and served as changing and backstage areas, among other things.

A large rig was installed under the ceiling, on which a total of around one hundred lamps and moving head spotlights were mounted to create the right lighting effects for the speakers, acrobats and DJ. The elaborate lighting was controlled by grandMA lighting consoles.

Als Soundsystem für den Disco-Event kamen bereits vorhandene L-Acoustics Linearrays der Veranstaltungslocation zum Einsatz.

In order to be able to reliably guarantee the assembly and dismantling as well as the support, about fifty colleagues, as planners, structural engineers, technicians and helpers were in action.

Fotos: AVMS und Adam Hall

Truss material
Motors with central control
Atomic Design Panels - Wafers
Cameo Moving Lights
Cameo Wash Lights
Lighting control
High resolution LED wall
Sound system for disco event from the house
Competent planners and technicians
Motivated and hardworking helpers

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Lighting design and media technology Interalpin

Thomas Fischer — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:58:19 +0000

Lighting design and smart media technology perfectly complement the technical exhibits

Together with our customer mac , who designed the booth for Interalpin, we created a grandiose and informative ambience with the help of trusses, lighting, IT and media technology. The smart lighting design perfectly illuminated logos, claims and exhibits. Through clever light and dark zones, the highlights of the booth were thus very well staged. Various monitors and LED walls in different sizes provided the desired additional information.

Doppelmayr with a classy stand appearance at the world's leading trade fair for alpine technologies Interalpin 2023 in Innsbruck

After a four-year break, the 24th edition of Interalpin underlined its unbroken global strength and appeal as the world’s leading trade show. For three days, the Alpine metropolis of Innsbruck became the center of the ropeway and alpine technology industry for more than 35,000 trade visitors from all corners of the globe.

For Doppelmayr, a leading manufacturer of ropeways, we equipped this very impressive booth with media technology and lighting. For this purpose, the ceiling was first equipped with over 300m of trusses to accommodate the numerous spotlights in the form of spots and floodlights.

Several LED walls showed information and films about the latest ropeway technology. At the demo points, consultants used displays and touch monitors of nearly all sizes. Tablets were used at the information counters.

We were able to realize an interactive special construction in the form of a virtual cabin on an LED wall. This demonstrated how the access control of security doors reacts to unexpected obstacles such as skis or ski poles. For this purpose, sensor signals were used to control actuators by means of AI-controlled software.

Competent technicians took care of the technology of the numerous demo points and LED walls, so that the exhibitor could concentrate on his customers.

Photos: mac Messebau, Doppelmayr

300m truss construction
35 Hoist motors
55 LED floodlight
150 LED spots
Lighting control panel MA Lighting dot2
11x3m LED wall 2.6mm
11x0.5m LED ground 2.8mm
4,5x2,5m LED wall 2,6mm
1x2m LED wall 2.6mm
3x1,5m LED wall 2,6mm
1,5x2,5m LED wall 2,6mm
Playback via PCs and media players
25 Display and touchmonitor incl. Feed PCs
Set-up and dismantling by competent media technicians
Support during the fair

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Evening event in the Pavilion at the 2022 Book Fair

Thomas Fischer — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:15:05 +0000

Exuberant mood at an evening event in the Pavilion at the 2022 Book Fair

The beautiful light show and great sound during the evening event at the book fair delighted the guests. The event was recorded and broadcast live on ARTE television.

Lighting control, sound reinforcement and video recording from one competent source

Since 2018, the Pavilion has been an institution at the Book Fair. It is used for readings, interviews and all kinds of events. The Pavilion is reusable and will be stored during the Book Fair-free period. In mid-May 2023, the iF Design Award 2023 was ceremoniously presented at Berlin’s Friedrichstadt-Palast. The gold trophy of the prestigious design award in the category “Public Architecture” went to the building designed by schneider+schumacher Frankfurt Pavilion designed for the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Readings, interviews and discussions take place in the Pavilion in the mornings and afternoons, but in the evenings things can get a bit heated. To provide a setting for an exuberant trade show party, a few upgrades were installed to the standard equipment.

A disco ball was mounted under the ceiling, which was illuminated in phases. A large number of spotlights and spotlights created a beautiful party ambience. The beautiful lighting effects were controlled with grandMA lighting consoles.

In addition to the two existing LED walls, a third was placed behind the stage. Additional speakers provided a bit more oomph.

In order to be able to reliably guarantee the assembly and dismantling as well as the support, eight colleagues, as planners, structural engineers, technicians and helpers, were in action.

Photos: AVMS

Light control and disco ball
Sound system for disco event
2x LED wall 2,5x1,5m with 30 INFiLED 1,9mm pixel
1x LED wall 2,5x1,5m curved
Camera recording with domecam and camera train
Roland video direction and notebooks
Streaming Encoder Epiphan Pearl-2
Competent planners and technicians
Motivated and hardworking helpers

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Press conference Achema 2022 with beMatrix stage and LEDskin®.

Thomas Fischer — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:17:15 +0000

Achema press conference equipped with truss, lighting, sound, stage and media technology

To hold the international press conference on the occasion of Achema 2022, the Panorama room in the Forum of the Festhalle on the Frankfurt exhibition grounds was equipped with elaborate stage, lighting, sound, camera, media and transmission technology and supervised by experienced technicians.

The international PK was translated by interpreters and the livestream was transmitted to the homepage

Achema (proper spelling ACHEMA for Ausstellungsstagungfür chemisches Apparatewesen) is the world’s largest trade fair for the process industry for chemical engineering, process technology and biotechnology with around 170,000 visitors and several thousand international exhibitors. It is organized every three years on the grounds of the Frankfurt Fair by the association DECHEMA and the “Dechema Ausstellungs-GmbH”.

The stage was built with stage platforms. The stage back wall was realized with a reusable beMatrix frame system with textile covering.

The ceiling of the hall was equipped with a truss construction to which numerous spotlights were attached to illuminate the stage and the audience area. In addition, battery-powered spotlights set up on the sides provided a pleasant ambience.

Good understanding among the audience was ensured by the interpreters, who were deployed from an interpreting booth for the translation. The sound was professionally mixed and distributed to the audience through loudspeakers, which were also suspended in the truss.

A 5x5m LED wall made of LEDskin® modules, has shown the visual content from presentations or the two camera trains from the stage.

For those who could not be there in person, the entire event was broadcast via livestream on the Achema homepage.

Thanks to perfect planning and professional equipment for the event, the AVMS technicians were able to ensure smooth and trouble-free operation of the AV and media technology.

Stage 10x4m from Bütec stage platforms
Stage back wall 12x5m from beMatrix frame with textile covering
25m² LED wall made of 100 LEDskin modules in the angled stage side
74m truss with 30 spots and floodlights controlled by MA dot2 lighting desk
Ambient lighting with 25 Astera battery headlights
Sound system with 12 ProAudio speakers, 2 subwoofers and 3 power amplifiers
Interpreting equipment with booth and headphones
3 camera trains with video direction
Media server and video mixer with streaming encoder
Cable routes for power and network
10 lighting, sound, camera and media technicians to support the event
1 day assembly, 8 hours disassembly
5 truckloads of stage and event equipment

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Annual general meeting with event technology

Thomas Fischer — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:56:35 +0000

The annual general meeting of Haus & Grund was equipped with event technology

When holding an annual general meeting, there are a number of things to consider when selecting event technology. Everything was thought of at the AGM for Haus & Grund Deutschland, so that everything went according to plan in the Chamber Music Hall of the Mendelssohn House in Leipzig. This is no wonder, because AVMS has been competently managing this event for years.

Light, sound, stage, deco, video and camera technology, tuning and live streaming from Leipzig to the world

For adequate lighting, a truss construction was suspended from the hall ceiling and numerous spotlights were mounted and aligned. Thus, the previously set up stage as well as the performers shone in bright splendor. Colored washlight spotlights provided beautiful ambient lighting.

The stage background was realized with DCP frames and a textile back wall as decoration. A large preview monitor showed speakers desired information and a smaller display showed available speaking time. Two 130″ LED screens on height-adjustable tripods, displayed information about the speaker or important info.

The lectern was equipped with a monitor in portrait format, which displayed the customer logo. High-quality microphones and profile loudspeakerswith excellent speech reproduction were used for the sound system.

The voting, which is obligatory at such events, was realized with a professional voting system and carried out without errors.

In order to reach members who were not able to be on site, the meeting was broadcast via live streaming. A hygiene concept was drawn up and implemented for the participants on site in accordance with the legal requirements.

Photos: AVMS

Motors with central control
Truss material
Cameo Wash Lights
Astera battery headlight
Lighting control
2x 130" LED wall on tripods
Bosch microphone units and proAudio loudspeakers for optimal speech reproduction
Professional voting system Media Ivent
Camera technology and live streaming encoder
Hygiene concept in accordance with legal requirements
Sequence and direction plan
Competent planners and technicians
Motivated and hardworking helpers

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Technology at the sales meeting

Janosch Auth — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 15:23:49 +0000

A lot of technology at the sales meeting

Big sales event of an insurance company at the Kameha Grand Bonn

A large insurance company had invited to an impressive motivational event with a big come together. About 1000 sales representatives were invited. Due to space constraints, the event was held on two double days, each with 500 participants. AVMS was present at the sales meeting with a large amount of event technology and service.

The beautiful Kameha Grand Congress Hotel was equipped with a main stage, a side stage, two large projections, sound and video direction as well as a workshop area with demo points.

The first day consisted of awelcome, workshops, gala dinner with honors and after show party with DJ .

On the second day there were Workshops, show programs with iPad magician, lazer artist, artist, live band, and aftershow party with DJ.

To make the event an unforgettable experience, our team pulled out all the stops and moved, installed and operated a lot of equipment in a very short time.

3x Full-HD large projector with 20,000 ANSI lumens
1x Full-HD large projector with 12,000 ANSI lumens
Video direction with Barco E2 Presentation Switcher and notebooks
52x Expolite TourLED 56TW Zoom, 18x Expolite TourLED 42 RGB, 16x SGM P5
8x Martin MAC Viper Performance, 6x Arri T1, 7x Robe Robin Pointe
12x Elation Paladin, 8x Clay Paky Alpha Spot 300, Wireless Intercom
MA Lighting dot2 XL-F + Faderwing
6x Pro Audio Technology top HT16, 8x Pro Audio subwoofer SW 18
2x Pro Audio Technology MT12, 3x amplifier Höllstern 08.4, In ear Monitoring
4x Pro Audio Technology top HT16, 2x Pro Audio subwoofer SW 18
2x Pro Audio Technology MT12, 2x amplifier Höllstern 08.4
2x Pro Audio Technology MT12, 20 radio channels Shure ULXD
Various displays and small sound systems for the demo points
DJ Set Pioneer Nexus and Kling & Freitag PA

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Supervision of a world tour

Janosch Auth — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:59:50 +0000

Taking care of a world tour requires clever logistics

For the band Slipknot, one of the most successful rock-metal bands in the music world, we installed nearly 350 INFiLED SF6 modules in their current stage setup for the “We Are Not Your Kind” world tour in early summer 2019.

Slipknot Heavy Metal Band is supported by AVMS

The flexible Infiled LED product, which was originally designed for permanent installations, had to be modified for the hard daily touring routine, because the band’s stage setups are not only transported by truck and ship, but also by plane from one concert location to the next.

2 complete stage setups for “Back2Back” tours were built, which are ready to go within 30 minutes every day and inspire the concert visitors with a very special kind of video playback, because the two percussion risers were rebuilt, which are a central part of Slipknot’s live set and are therefore also constantly played.

For the technology, several employees were available for support.

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B3 BEN Awards Gala and Extravaganza Virtuale

Thomas Fischer — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:27:11 +0000

B3 BEN Awards with Opening Gala and Extravaganza Virtuale in Frankfurt

The B3 Biennale of the Moving Image is a creative festival. It shows films, video art, computer games, installations and virtual reality by international artists and creatives. As the successor to the eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival, it has been hosted at various locations in Frankfurt am Main since 2013. Initially every two years, now every year. In 2019, B3 was held for the first time together with the cultural festival THEARTS+ at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

In addition to the exhibits, there will be an opening gala, lectures, discussions, workshops, performances, poetry slams, games, XR Experiences and live musical acts. In addition, an award ceremony, in which works from all categories will be
B3 BEN Awards
will be awarded. Among them is the Extravaganza Virtuale, an artistic-political homage to the first international satellite transmission “Good Morning, Mr. Orwell” by the Korean video artist Nam June Paik.

Professional online streaming studio technology in use at the Bienale of the Moving Image

AVMS had already taken care of the technical side of this widely known event in previous years. Planned as a hybrid event, it had to be rescheduled at short notice to an online-only event due to the increasing Corona infections. This took place in the festival centre Astor Filmlounge.

For this we have shot and processed 60 short presentations in the last few days. 16 live broadcasts from all over the world were realized within one event. Over 200 films and short portraits were uploaded to our media servers. Our well-rehearsed technical crew ensured the smooth running of the online event with a great deal of flexibility. All crew members were subjected to a Corona test shortly before the event and were of course only allowed to participate if the result was negative.

The global livestream was hosted and moderated by Aspekte presenter Jo Schück, Austrian artist Johannes Grenzfurthner and auteur filmmaker and film music composer Brenda Lien. They guided the audience through B3 BEN Awards with Opening Gala and Extravaganza Virtuale in Frankfurt 2020.

Customer-oriented team of specialists on site
Controllable light set for all studio applications
Multi-channel audio setup with radio transmission and noise cancelling
Several studio cameras, partly APP controlled
AV Stumpfl Pixera real-time media processing, compositing and management
Barco E2 4k Media Presentation System
Mobile preview monitors for moderation and direction
Large projection screen
4K video direction with editing and data management
Live streaming via encrypted servers in Germany

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