highlights one historically important building on each continent. Together they span an arc of light and color over our world as a gesture of hope for worldwide peace and mutual understanding:

Red: Private Home, Montréal, Canada, North America.

Orange: Olympic Stadium Beijing, China, Asia.

Yellow: Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil, South America.

Green: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria, Europe.

Blue: Pyramids, Egypt, Africa.

Violett: Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia.

Date of the installations: International World Peace Day, September 21st – October 3rd 2015. Project partners: Künstlerhaus Vienna, Bildrecht GmbH. Vienna;

The rainbow represents a unique symbol of hope, peace, understanding and community in most cultures. The uncountable raindrops following a shower are lit up by the sun in the colours of the spectrum to form an illuminated bridge. A rainbow thus requires both rain and sun for its origin.

Thanks to: Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, participating institutions, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Federal Chancellery of Austria, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Bildrecht GmbH Vienna, REICHL UND PARTNER Communications Group

The Rainbow Trilogy is a large scale artistic project with the aim of projecting the structure of a rainbow onto the whole globe and thus display it as a symbol of peace. The instigating artist, Waltraut Cooper, has divised a concept which is being carried out in three phases in the period from 1999 to 2015. She intends to employ the world as a surface both in time and space on which we can project and transmit a message in the form of a structure delineated in the rainbow colours.
This project was instigated in spring 1999 in Austria when in the course of a series of concerts, events, illuminations and school activities a symbolic rainbow was projected on Austria.The next European stage took place in 2004 on the occasion of ten new member states joining the European Union. The final global rainbow shall happen from September 2nd 2015, 70 years after the end of the last World War, to September 21st, the Internatioanal Day of Peace.
In contrast to other activities or installations, this Rainbow is a utopic conception which uses a minimalist formal language and the principle of serial structures as the basis of a simple symbolic idea. According to Cooper, the rainbow acts as a symbol of transition in time and as a bridge between opposites to link eras, space and people.

Dear Ms. Cooper! the project RAINBOW ACROSS THE WORLD 2015, 70 years after the end of World War Two, will complete the Rainbow Trilogy which artistically represents the desire for peace that is common to all nations. It symbolises a remarkable example of international civil society and cultural cooperation. The RAINBOW ACROSS THE WORLD 2015 will surely continue the success of the previous projects "Rainbow across Europe 2004" and " Rainbow across Austria 1999 ". At a time when many have been devastated by the economic crisis with the resulting rise of populist trends and attempts to divide people, such projects are more important than ever. They make it clear how much we are connected by the common values of humanity and love of peace. I am therefore very grateful that you are making an important contribution with a cultural commitment to this awareness. It not only promotes active citizenship, but can help to strengthen solidarity between peoples and nations. I wish you and the other organizers every success in this remarkable project.