Among the prominent low-mass dark matter candidates is the QCD axion but also
other light and weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model. We
review briefly the case for such dark matter and give an overview on most
recent experimental efforts within laboratory searches, where we focus on
experiments exploiting a potential electromagnetic coupling of such particles.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the 24th European Cosmic Ray
Symposium, v2: accepted versio
