The Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2025 tradeshow recently wrapped up in Barcelona. This year’s show included many displays of innovation, advancements, and groundbreaking technologies for the AV and systems integration industry. Here is a roundup of the product launches that were introduced at ISE 2025, as well as some recent product launches that made their Europe or ISE debut.
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Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2025 has wrapped up a highly successful week in Barcelona, celebrating yet another milestone in the event’s history. This year’s show was richer than ever in innovation, industry advancements, and groundbreaking technologies, reinforcing its position as the premier event for the AV and systems integration industry.
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Apocalyptica, a Finnish trio, are three classically trained musicians who fuse two different worlds, playing metal rock. Lighting Designer Mikki Kunttu has worked with them on a few occasions since 2007, and his design for their current ‘APMB4C Vol 2.’ tour includes an impressive collection of COLORado PXL Curve 12 fixtures from CHAUVET Professional.
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Medieval morality play ‘Jedermann’ has become a classic centerpiece of the world-renowned Salzburg Festival, staged most years in the city’s Cathedral Square. 2024 saw the staging of a new, contemporary version created by Canadian Director Robert Carsen, a master of stagecraft and innovative thinking. Lighting was designed by Carsen and Giuseppe di Iorio, with the latter specifying Robe iFORTE LTXs.
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Claypaky Sharpy X Frame hybrid luminaires illuminated the inaugural 2024 World Taekwondo Virtual Championships in Singapore where more than 120 athletes from 23 countries participated in the first-ever event of its kind. The competition took place at the Singapore Sports Hub OCBC Arena 1, November 16-17.
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Leading London, UK-based event production company Halo has added 24 Robe PAINTE moving lights to its rental inventory, which were delivered in September following the PLASA professional lighting and sound expo by the team at Robe UK.
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Accenting that music of the Kappa FuturFestival with a bold, futuristic lighting design that incorporated the gripping architectural elements of Parco Dora, was Giovanni Ricciardi. Helping Ricciardi achieve his vision at the festival were 50 COLORado PXL Curve 12 and 50 COLORado PXL Bar 16 fixtures supplied by ZaLight with services by STS Communication.
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Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Diamond Sponsor Ayrton, Showlight has a limited number of reduced priced conference places available to early career freelance professionals. Showlight acknowledges all the support from its sponsors, whose generosity allows Showlight to maintain the standards education, entertainment and networking expected of this unique lighting quadrennial.
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CGS Dry Hire from Denkendorf, Bavaria, has added a large selection of Cameo spots to its dry hire offering for the first time. The dry hire supplier is expanding its rental portfolio to include the OTOS wash moving head, the OTOS H5 IP65 beam-spot-wash hybrid moving head, and the new AZOR SP2 IP65 spot profile moving head. The Cameo spots are immediately available.
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Part of a global franchise, ‘Swedish Idol’ is one of the most popular shows on Swedish television. It provides a glittering platform on which hopeful Swedish singing stars can showcase their talents. The latest series of live performances was lit by Lighting Designer, Linus Pansell, who included Ayrton Kyalami, Rivale Profile, and MagicBlade FX fixtures in his rig.
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The long-awaited premiere of Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator 2’ was held at Leicester Square in London. Contributing to the glamorous and festive tone of the event was a lighting design by Richard Godin that was run on a ChamSys MagicQ MQ250M desk, anchored by a mighty legion of CHAUVET Professional LED video panels, all supplied by Milton Keynes-based IPS.
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The Schouwburg Kunstmin in Dordrecht is a busy, bustling theatre and performing arts venue in The Netherlands which has made another major purchase of Robe LED lighting fixtures with 83 T11 Profiles. These have been added to their Main Hall house lighting rig, replacing all the old, fixed position incandescent profiles and PCs.
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