VIDEO MAPPING AWARDS – Programme

Felix Frank / Germany / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 6 min 20
Music, sound design: ESTEBANOISE
Showing: Stern-Center, Lüdenscheid, Germany (Lichtrouten 2025)

LUX ARCANA reimagines the brutalist rear facade of the Stern-Center through a gentle, living light. Precise 3D mapping animates the grey architecture from within, dissolving mass into a poetic narrative of inner radiance, optical rhythm and spatial transformation.

Anima Lux – Yann Nguema / France / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 8 min
Music, sound design: Mischa Blanos
Showing: City Hall, Stockholm, Suède (Nobel Week Lights)

The title Pro Pace is taken from the inscription “Pro pace et fraternitate gentium” on the reverse side of the Nobel Peace Prize medal, which means “For peace and brotherhood among people”. The work highlights a selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates and refers to the two places closely linked to the Nobel Prize: Stockholm and Oslo. The laureates were chosen from among organisations and individuals whose struggles and achievements are particularly relevant in the context of current events.
“Some of the causes championed by the laureates are still particularly threatened today, and I think it is important to (re)highlight them at this event.” Y. Nguema

Sasha Kojjio / Russia, Spain / 2025 / Immersive mapping / 5 min
Music, sound design: Sasha Kojjio
Showing: Bombas Gens Centro de Artes Digitales, Valencia, Spain (Volumens Festival)

Semantic Failure is an audiovisual artwork created for 360 projection spaces employs aesthetics of textual structures to explore the complexity of digital communication and the nature of meaning in the AI.

Studio Julian Hölscher – Julian Hölscher / Germany / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 6 min (preview of 3 min 50)
Music, sound design: Thomas Werner
Showing: Phänomenta Tower, Lüdenscheid, Germany (Lichtrouten 2025)

In the centre of the tower is a Foucault pendulum, whose radial movement makes the Earth’s rotation perceptible. The site-specific work stages the pendulum as the driving force behind the animation. It transforms the tower into a kind of power station that captures cosmic light from the sky and breaks it down into its spectral colours.

Mandoline Hybride – Sonya Stefan, Julie Dalbec, Sébastien Pedneault / Canada / 2025 / Mapping monumental / 21 min 42
Music, sound design: Guillaume Campion
Showing: Marsoui, Quebec, Canada (FURIES Festival)

Reflets dansants is a light installation that offers passers-by a fresh perspective on the village’s iconic buildings: Marsoui Church and the historic La Couquerie building. These heritage sites became the living canvas for a series of dancing images, drawn from the Regards Hybrides Collection and reimagined by director Sonya Stefan. This poetic and immersive work offered visitors a unique encounter between contemporary dance, video mapping and the Gaspé region, in a profound celebration of everyday life and the landscape.

David Espitia, Feno Dias / Colombia, Portugal / 2025 / Mapping on object / 4 min 05
Music, sound design: María Juliana González Silva
Showing: Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal
[Emerging artist category]

A body that hurts is a video installation conceived out of a request from the body to be fully involved in the task of animation. The mechanical nature of the work leads to the neglect of the body, causing pain, fatigue, and discomfort. Through repetitive actions, grotesque sound and the use of different hands-on techniques, the video explores the decaying body as an operator rather than a creator, reflecting the lack of attention put into the flesh during labor.

E-GO – Zhigang Wang & Yu Sun / China / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 7 min 38
Music, sound design: Yanpeng Shao & Fangxia Wei
Showing: Aranya Community Hall, Qinhuangdao, China (Aranya Theater Festival)

Through the symbolic imagery of an astronaut and a unicorn, this work metaphorically explores humanity’s quest for the unknown and the longing for a realm of purity. Within a surreal space co-created by multimedia visuals and the Aranya Chapel, it responds to the mysterious, unpredictable, yet uniquely captivating presences of the universe. Guiding viewers through a gentle encounter between technology and humanity, the piece leads us toward a utopia of the soul.

Magicstreet – Antoine Goldschmidt, Florian Guibert / Belgium / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 6 min
Music, sound design: Margaret Hermant, Fabien Leseure, Pierre Dozin
Showing: Horta-Lambeaux Pavilion – Cinquantenaire Park, Brussels, Belgium (Bright Brussels Festival)

Passions Humaines uses mapping to interact with the monumental high relief by sculptor Jef Lambeaux. The work explores the connection, coexistence, and dialogue between classical and digital art forms.
The bodies carved from Carrara marble are gradually revealed and come to life in an intense composition that transforms and transcends the audience’s view of our Human Passions.

Photonic – Roberto Palma & Said Dokins / Mexico / 2025 / Immersive mapping / 5 min 21
Music, sound design: Pablo Todd
Showing: Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico

Luz y Palabra is an intervention where writing expands through laser, UV light, and projection. The work establishes a dialogue between void and space: a reading between the lines in which light does not seek brilliance, but activates awareness, revealing traces that emerge as they are conceived by consciousness.

Stage Performance – Marie Aubinière / France / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 6 min 12
Music, sound design: Emeric Rakotondrahaja
Showing: Embarcadère, Montauban, France (Les Lucioles Festival)
[Emerging artist category]

Initially, a white vertical line appears, oscillates, freezes, and then gradually multiplies on both sides. It distorts vision by revealing an object that is both graphic and protean, offering a glimpse of the interior. It is a composition designed as a loop that plays alternately forwards and backwards.

Vanessa Hafenbrädl / Germany / 2025 / Mapping on object / 10 min (preview of 1 min 10)
Music, sound design: Andi Stecher
Showing: Nantesbuch Foundation, Bad Heilbrunn, Germany

A mountain made of glass, GLASSTIDES is an artistic representation of the fragility and beauty of our ecosystem.
The tides follow their eternal rhythm, unaffected by human activity. GLASSTIDES encourages us to question our own significance in comparison to the great cycles of nature and, at the same time, opens up space to surrender to the beauty of our surroundings.

Lukas Taido / Germany / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 8 min 44
Music, sound design: Lukas Taido
Showing: Volksbank building, Leipzig, Germany (Leipzig Festival of Lights)

When opposing a totalitarian regime, the first step is to make yourself visible. But by doing so, the protesters in East-Germany 1989 found themselves in the crosshairs of the SED surveillance state. Yet, more and more people dared to open their window curtains, appear in the streets, and finally, to light candles-symbol of the peaceful revolution

Diana Reichenbach / USA / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 4 min 30
Music, sound design: Thad Anderson
Showing: Alys Beach, Florida, USA (Digital Graffiti)
[Emerging artist category]

SONOLUMIN 01 is an immersive visual music installation that begins in nature and slowly dissolves into a surreal digital environment. Projected onto architecture and trees, the work blurs boundaries between light, space, and landscape, reflecting the merging of analog and digital life.

Simon Lazarus 84 / France / 2025 / Immersive mapping / 3 min 45
Music, sound design: s8jfou
Showing: Trinitarian Cloister, Metz, France (Constellations de Metz)

The sun rises over the convent: a herd of colorful paintings floats there in complete tranquility, sheltered behind a curious mesh that evokes a zoo enclosure, a clockwork mechanism and a mixing desk.
This mechanism comes to life and seems to have an impact on the fauna, the flora and the landscape in the background.
Like a remote control, it alters the hues, the direction of reading, or the brightness of the video elements, and produces musical notes that interact with the panorama. At the beginning, the horizon evolves at its own pace in perfect serenity; the grid, like a well-oiled mechanism, plays along with it, setting the rhythm of the decor. But the control system triggers a reaction from the landscape that in turn disrupts the grid and opens Pandora’s box.
NEVER TRUST HAL 9000 is a story about grids, tools, control and structure. About harmony and disorder, poetry in dissonance and balance in mayhem. About joyfully watching a system gone crazy slowly falling down.
“Man makes plans, God laughs.” (Yiddish proverb)

Nele Fack / Belgium / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 2 min 17
Music, sound design: Niels Blondeel
Showing: St Magdalene’s Church, Brugge, Belgium (Winter Glow Festival)

“Where color takes form”. In the Prismatorium, light is infused with its primary components: red, green, and blue, the foundation of all colors. Set against the facade of the Heilige Magdalenakerk, the videomapping reveals how color is built, layered, and brought to life.

Daniel Rossa / Germany / 2025 / Monumental mapping / 6 min 48
Music, sound design: Tibslc
Showing: RBA, Barcelona, Spain (Llum BCN)

Metatecture is a site-specific audiovisual intervention that enables the building to reflect on its own means of architectural construction through dreamlike sequences. Using the façade’s sun-blind system as both subject and instrument, immersion is deliberately disrupted to expose the tools, layers, and artificial nature of the staging itself.