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For three days, the 14th Wonder of Light festival transformed the Peter and Paul Fortress into an open-air multimedia museum. In 2025, the festival theme — Pro Art — brought together works inspired by painting, literature, and music.

The festival route featured 16 locations distributed across the fortress grounds. Our team created content for seven key points along the route. Over the three days of the festival, it was visited by 389,000 people.

Ioannovsky Gate was the starting point of the festival route. The concept was inspired by avant-garde aesthetics and the ideas of Cubism. The architectural elements of the arch were transformed into abstract forms in constant motion. The combination of 2D and 3D graphics turned the gate’s façade into a dynamic multimedia canvas — a portal into the world of artistic experimentation at the Wonder of Light festival.

At the Gosudarev Bastion, a volumetric projection installation evoking the imagery of a bestiary was presented. Pages of an imaginary book came to life before the audience, telling the story of the city’s winged guardians — mythical creatures watching over the night-time calm of the Northern Capital.

The project was realized in collaboration with the artists of the PushKeen Company, who developed the concept and created the static illustrations.

Naryshkin Bastion became the central location of the festival, for which we created a six-minute pop-science projection mapping show dedicated to the history of art.

The visuals spanned more than 100 meters of the fortress walls and were produced at a resolution exceeding 13K. The show was structured as a continuous visual narrative — tracing the evolution of art from ancient cave paintings to contemporary experiments with artificial intelligence.

On the façade of the Saint Petersburg Mint, our team presented an audiovisual show dedicated to the eras of Russian literature. From the odes of Mikhail Lomonosov and the poetry of the Silver Age to the experiments of Futurism and the works of contemporary authors, words and imagery came to life across the façade, forming stylized three-dimensional scenes.

The façade of the Botny House was transformed into a fairytale terem, inspired by the Neo-Russian style of Saint Petersburg architecture. The visuals were projected onto three sides of the building, allowing the familiar structure to re-emerge as a new architectural focal point of Cathedral Square. Light accentuated the carved forms, ornamental details, and silhouettes characteristic of traditional wooden architecture.

The Round Tower became another site where our team presented animated projection content. The visual concept was built around the idea of continuous transformation of the architectural form. Through work with geometry, light, and the illusion of depth, the building was perceived as a dynamic structure in a state of constant metamorphosis.

Nikolskiy Gate marked the final point of the festival route. The projection content was created in the aesthetic of glitch art — an artistic approach centered on visual distortions and digital errors. The gate’s façade transformed into an unstable digital environment: imagery fragmented, “broke apart,” and reassembled, creating the sensation of a layered, fractured reality.