Video mapping competition
Saturday 11th of April 2026 / 10 am
Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille
As part of IBSIC - Only for participants registered for Saturday's event
Every year, the Video Mapping Festival presents a video mapping competition to reward the best productions of the year. The video mapping selected during a pre-selection are presented to the public in the form of video recordings.
Following the screening of the Video Mapping Awards competition, the Jury will award the prizes for the best productions of the year 2025: Grand Prize, Prize for Best Sound Design, Innovation Prize, Prize for Best Immersive Work and Emerging Artist Prize.
The prize ceremony will take place on Saturday 11th of April at 7 pm at the Gare Saint Sauveur (Lille) as part of IBSIC's closing.
The Grand Prize winner will receive a pico projector from EPSON France.
Each winner will receive a MadMapper licence.
The prizes are designed by ruestungsschmie.de and 3D printed by Future Campus Ruhr.
In competition:
. David Espitia (Colombia, Portugal) - A body that hurts (mapping on object)
. Nele Fack (Belgium) - Prismatorium (monumental mapping)
. Felix Frank (Germany) - LUX ARCANA (monumental mapping)
. Antoine Goldschmidt (Belgium) - Passions Humaines (monumental mapping)
. Vanessa Hafenbrädl (Germany) - GLASSTIDES (mapping on object)
. Julian Hölscher (Germany) - LICHTWERK (monumental mapping)
. Sasha Kojjio (Russia, Spain) - Semantic Failure (immersive mapping)
. Simon Lazarus 84 (France) - NEVER TRUST HAL 9000 (immersive mapping)
. Mandoline Hybride (Canada) - Reflets dansants (monumental mapping)
. Yann Nguema (France) - PRO PACE (monumental mapping)
. Roberto Palma & Said Dokins (Mexico) - Luz y Palabra (immersive mapping)
. Diana Reichenbach (USA) - SONOLUMIN 01 (monumental mapping)
. Daniel Rossa (Germany) - Metatecture (monumental mapping)
. Stage Performance (France) - Oscillations (monumental mapping)
. Lukas Taido (Germany) - Sichtbar Werden (Becoming Visible) (monumental mapping)
. Zhigang Wang & Yu Sun (China) - MEET U (monumental mapping)
Video Mapping Awards pre-selection Jury:
. Ross Ashton - creative director, The Projection Studio (United Kingdom)
. Marko Bolković - director, Visualia Festival of Light (Croatia)
. László Zsolt Bordos - artist (Hungary)
. Nika Perne - curator (Slovenia)
Video Mapping Awards Jury:
. Laurent Delforge - composer and sound designer, NONE Studio (Belgium)
. Carmen Gil Vrolijk - artistic director and curator, La Quinta del Lobo, University of the Andes, RETA.HEX (Colombia)
. Virginie Martin - artistic director (France)
. Jieun Min - public exhibition director (Republic of Korea)
. Dong Wang - founder, CEO and curator, Alight, Shanghai International Light Festival (China)
Jieun Min's participation is supported by the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in the Republic of Korea, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and the Institut français as part of the strategy for the international export of cultural and creative industries.
Dong Wang’s participation is supported by the Institut français in China.
