iMapp Bucharest - Winners League
Bucharest, Romania
Next event: 20.09.2025 - 20.09.2025
https://imapp.ro/imapp/
iMapp Bucharest – Winners League, a world-class event that has placed Bucharest on the global video mapping map, organized by Bucharest Municipality, through CREART – Centre for Creation, Art and Tradition, will take place on 20th of September, 2025, in Constitutiei Square.
Bucharest once again becomes the epicentre of global creativity and light, as top artists from around the world and some of the most important international light festivals come together in a unique visual competition, where monumental architecture is transformed into immersive storytelling. The audience will witness a spectacular synergy between technology and art, unfolding across the 23,000-square-meter façade of the Palace of the Parliament.
This year, iMapp Bucharest marks a special milestone: its 10th anniversary edition, under a powerful and timely theme: ART IS ALL AROUND, celebrating the omnipresence of art in our lives - from the city’s architecture to the charm of projections, from pixels to emotions. The artists will transform the façade of the Parliament building into a captivating visual experience of shapes, colours and textures, drawn from everyday life, reminding us that art is not confined to museums - it lives in public spaces, in communities, in architecture, in urban hustle and in human expression.
This anniversary edition marks a decade in which Bucharest has established itself as a global reference point for New Media Art. Ten years of innovation, international collaboration and unforgettable experiences have transformed the city into a capital of creativity and light. 10 editions of enjoying art together, 1 city, infinite stories and millions of Bucharest residents and tourists who were part of the spectacle.
Saturday, 20th of September, 2025, between 4 PM and 11 PM, iMapp Bucharest will showcase the most outstanding and talented artists in the field - the winners of its seven partner festivals - Chongqing International Light Art Festival (CHINA), Genius Loci Weimar Festival (GERMANY), Jakarta Light Festival (INDONESIA), LUMA Projection Arts Festival (USA), 1minute Projection Mapping Competition (JAPAN), Video Mapping Festival (FRANCE) and Zsolnay Light Festival (HUNGARY).
The visual artists will compete for the Grand Prize of iMapp Bucharest 2025. At the end of the evening, a jury composed of international experts will select the Grand Winner of the 2025 edition, awarding the Jury Prize. Meanwhile, the audience is invited to be part of the competition by voting for their favorite work during the event night, deciding the winner of the Public Choice Award. The atmosphere in Constitutiei Square will be energized by DJ sets.
iMapp Bucharest once again reaffirms its commitment to promoting art and cultural education. This year’s edition will honour two Romanian artists from the world cultural heritage, whose works have transcended the boundaries of time and space, inspiring generations and shaping Romania’s identity on the global stage.
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In 2020, iMapp Bucharest - Winners League launched the international solidarity campaign “One World. One Heart.” and was declared the winner of the “AV IN ACTION” category at the AV AWARDS in London - the famous international competition that recognizes and rewards excellence in the entire audiovisual industry, organized by AV Magazine from UK (magazine that dominates the audiovisual publishing sector for over 40 years). The contest was previously nominated in AV Awards in 2016, for Live Event of the Year.
In 2023, as part of “Enlightenment” - a campaign for peace, initiated by Borealis - a festival of light and Maxin10sity and created by 35 projection artists, alongside 75 other international cities who have hosted it, iMapp Bucharest - Winners League has won a Telly Award.