Architecture & Monuments · 2025 · Tbilisi, Georgia

National Academy Tower — Tbilisi Mural Fest 2025

For Tbilisi Mural Fest 2025, RESORB mapped the tower of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences on Rustaveli Avenue — a monumental-scale projection in the centre of Tbilisi.

The tower of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi lit in pink and red by RESORB’s projection mapping at night, Mount Mtatsminda with its TV tower and Ferris wheel behind

Tbilisi Mural Fest brings street art to the walls of the Georgian capital. In 2025 RESORB added light to it: a monumental-scale projection mapping on the tower of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, on Rustaveli Avenue in the heart of the city.

The studio, which works from Berlin and Tbilisi, had already mapped a mural in the centre of Tbilisi for the festival in 2023. For 2025 it moved from a wall to a landmark: the content is built to the tower’s architecture, so its storeys, windows and crown carry the image.

The mapping ran on the nights of 9 to 12 May 2025. The images on this page are stills from the drone documentation of the show.

In its recap of the festival, the Montana-Cans Blog credits the 3D mapping on the Academy of Sciences building to “Studio ReSORB and visual artist Stefan Ihmig”.

Drone view along Rustaveli Avenue at night: the Academy of Sciences tower glows in projected colour above the trees, traffic and the lights of Tbilisi
The Academy of Sciences tower in Tbilisi wrapped in orange and red projected light, filmed by drone at night
The tower lit gold by projection mapping, Rustaveli Avenue with its traffic and street lights stretching away below
Looking down on the Academy of Sciences tower from a drone: blue, gold and red projected patterns on its stone, the avenue and parked cars below

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