A studio that builds light at the scale of architecture.

What we do

One craft, many disciplines: 3D projection mapping on façades and monuments; holographic and volumetric installations in water, fog and mid-air; immersive spaces and 360° environments; interactive façade games; festival and stage visuals; brand activations; mobile projection from a vehicle; and the media technology that carries all of it.

Most commissions combine several of them. A festival opening may need a surveyed 3D model of a palace, six minutes of original animation, a sound design, a projector plan and a crew on site for the run of the show. That whole chain sits in-house, which is why it holds together.

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How we work

Every project starts with the surface. We survey the building or the site, rebuild it as a precise 3D model and previsualise the show on that model, so the idea is visible before production money is spent. Production follows: modelling, animation, sound. Then realisation on location — projector selection and placement, media servers, calibration, show control and operation through every night of the run.

The two studios divide the work. The creative studio in Tbilisi develops concept, 3D content and sound. RE:SORB Mediatech in Berlin plans and operates the technical setup, owns the equipment and advises other studios, agencies and venues on feasibility and site surveys.

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Where we work

Since 2007 the studio's work has been shown in fifteen countries across Europe, the Caucasus, Asia, the Arabian Peninsula and Latin America — from the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin TV Tower and Charlottenburg Palace to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Templo Mayor in Mexico City, Odawara Castle in Japan and the opening shows of the Sharjah Light Festival.

Alongside the landmarks runs a long line of festival work: Boom Festival in Portugal, O.Z.O.R.A. in Hungary, Fusion, Garbicz, MO:DEM, Tribal Gathering in Panama and Re:birth in Japan. BEYOND, the studio’s monumental water-and-fog environment, was presented at O.Z.O.R.A. in 2024 and at Boom and at INTERVALS in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 2025.

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Track record

RE:SORB has been commissioned by festivals, cities, cultural institutions and brands for more than twenty years, and has shown work at 11 editions of the Festival of Lights Berlin. Its competition entries have won first prize twice at Art Vision at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and at the 1minute Projection Mapping Competition in Japan the Audience Award (2019, Odawara Castle), the Jury Prize (2022) and the Tokyo Tokyo Award (2023); in 2025 The Cathedral of the Infinite Scroll was one of three prize-winning works at Charlottenburg Palace in the Festival of Lights Awards.

Scale is part of the brief as often as art is: a 48-projector installation at the Mall of Berlin, a 67-metre column mapped and watched from every direction, a silo installation in Bengaluru whose documentation has passed ten million views on Instagram.

The founder

RE:SORB was founded in 2004 by Stefan Ihmig, a German media artist and creative director based in Tbilisi with a longstanding practice in Berlin. Part of URBANSCREEN's founding circle in 2006–07, he began making 3D projection-mapping installations in 2007 and has since developed the studio's water-and-fog method, in which projected light is held in a volume of atmosphere rather than on a flat screen.

He leads concept and artistic direction on the studio's own works and on most commissions.

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