The September 19-20 edition brings seven international video mapping winners to Bucharest, in a new edition of the Winners League, alongside a special moment dedicated to Nadia Comăneci.
iMapp Bucharest Winners League returns in 2026 with a new edition dedicated to digital art, music, and technology. Over the course of the two-day event, Bucharest will once again become the meeting place for international video mapping artists, the public, and important names in electronic and live music, to be announced soon.
Organized by the Bucharest City Hall, through ARCUB, as part of the Bucharest Days, iMapp Bucharest Winners League reaches its 11th edition, continuing the project that, for more than a decade, has transformed the roughly 23,000-square-meter façade of the Palace of Parliament into a space for digital creation and monumental audiovisual experiences.
iMapp Bucharest 2026. PAST. FORWARD.
Born from the desire to bring New Media art into public space, iMapp Bucharest has become an international platform for video mapping and new media technologies. Through the Winners League format, the event brings together in Bucharest artists and teams selected by some of the most important international festivals in the field. The theme of the 2026 edition, PAST. FORWARD., explores the dialogue between past and future, through memory, heritage, technology, and imagination. The seven works in competition offer different perspectives on time and memory, with the Palace of Parliament becoming an integral part of the narrative of each creation.
“The fact that iMapp Bucharest reaches its 11th edition says something important about how the Bucharest public has come to view this event: not just as a large-scale show, but as a cultural landmark of the city. In 11 years, iMapp has managed to create a tradition around digital art and to bring, each time, new perspectives and artists into dialogue with a very broad audience. We are glad to carry forward this beautiful dream of the people of Bucharest, which has grown together with the city and its public, and to turn this tradition into a starting point for new forms of expression, new technologies, and new ways of transforming public space through art,” said Mihaela Păun, Director of ARCUB.
Seven international artists in the iMapp Bucharest 2026 competition
The iMapp Bucharest 2026 program brings together, over the two days, video mapping shows, music, entertainment, and outdoor experiences, centered on the international Winners League competition. Seven international artists and studios, winners of competitions organized by the seven partner festivals from Hungary, Japan, Germany, France, China, the USA, and Brazil, will compete for the iMapp Bucharest 2026 Grand Prize. An international jury will award the Jury Prize, and the public will be able to vote for their favorite work by SMS at the standard rate to 1755, determining the winner of the Audience Award.
A special moment dedicated to Nadia Comăneci
This year’s edition of iMapp Bucharest marks 50 years since Nadia Comăneci’s historic performance at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, through a special video mapping moment dedicated to the gymnast and her impact on world sport.
iMapp Bucharest. 11 editions of digital art in public space
Over the course of 10 editions, iMapp Bucharest has contributed to establishing Bucharest on the international map of digital art, transforming the Palace of Parliament into a space for contemporary creation and audiovisual experiences accessible to the public free of charge. The project’s relevance was recognized in 2026 with the Silver Trophy in the “Art Event” category at the Eventex Awards, for the edition dedicated to Constantin Brâncuși and George Enescu.
Through the Winners League concept, iMapp Bucharest brings together in Bucharest artists named winners of international competitions in the field, creating a meeting space between artistic perspectives and cultural scenes from around the world.
iMapp Bucharest 2026. PAST. FORWARD.
Admission is free.
