A lighting device (40-40″, 45-45″, 50-50″, 60, 80, 93-93″) is provided for the uniform illumination of curved, uneven, or polyhedral surfaces. The lighting device has a plurality of flat
chip-on-board LED modules (1, 11, 11′, 21, 31, 41-41″, 46-46″, 51-51″, 61-61″, 71-71′″, 811-818), which are arranged adjacent to each other at least in pairs. Each
chip-on-board LED module (1, 11, 11′, 21, 31, 41-41″, 46-46″, 51-51″, 61-61″, 71-811-818) has a plurality of light-emitting LEDs (4, 4′, 14, 14′, 24, 34, 64, 72). The lighting device (40-40″, 45-45″, 50-50″, 60, 80, 93-93″) is characterized by at least one pair of the adjacent
chip-on-board LED modules (1, 11, 11′, 21, 31, 41-41″, 46-46″, 51-51″, 61-61″, 71-71′″, 811-818) being arranged at an angle greater than 0° with respect to the surface normals of the modules.