BBBank Award 2025 enables three new productions
Excellent and international: media art in the name of science
For the first time this year, three equally ranked winners will be honoured with the BBBank Award in Projection Mapping: With their submitted concepts on the subject area of science, research and innovation, Ari Dykier (Warsaw) with ‘Reflection in Technology’, SKG+ (Shenzhen) with ‘The Tao. The Flow of the Universe’ and V.P.M. (Barcelona) with “λ (Waves of Matters)” were able to prevail against the high-quality international competition. All three concepts, which show the diversity of projection mapping with their different visual worlds, will each receive 15,000 euros in prize money to implement their ideas in shows for the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe 2025, which will be shown on the façade of Karlsruhe Palace every evening from 14 August to 14 September 2025. On the opening evening of the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe, the public will also vote for the BBBank Audience Award from the three winners. The prize money for the Audience Award is 5,000 euros. The motto of the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe 2025 is ‘The Shining Lights of Science’. To mark the 200th anniversary of the KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, artists will be focussing on the achievements and fields of research of this globally outstanding university. In the sensual and technically advanced visual language of projection mapping, the works tell an impressive story of how scientific solutions and findings are constantly developing into building blocks of our physical and digital world.
The BBBank Award in Projection Mapping was announced this year for the fifth time by the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media in cooperation with the BBBank as part of the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe. A total of 108 concepts were submitted by media artists from 20 countries, including European countries, China, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Canada. A jury consisting of representatives from the ZKM, the HfG Karlsruhe, the BBBank as sponsor, Karlsruhe Marketing und Event GmbH as organiser of the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe as well as the Cultural Office of the City of Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) selected the winners of the BBBank Award 2025 from these submissions in two meetings.
