A Street & Digital Art Festival
Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand
King's Birthday Weekend
PROJECTA is a pilot digital art activation on the Queenstown waterfront, exploring how projection mapping and temporary public artworks can create connection and enrich the town’s cultural landscape.
Incredible Large Projection Videos
The 2026 Pilot edition will centre around a temporary projection mapping installation on the Absoloot Hostel QT building adjacent to Earnslaw Park. Presented across King’s Birthday Weekend, the activation will feature a curated series of digital artworks, animated content pieces and experimental projection works developed specifically for the site.
Projection mapping
Temporary digital and light-based artworks, projected via large scale video onto existing urban surfaces
Public space activation
This is an accessible, free-to-view creative experiences
long weekend of creativity
King's Birthday weekend
Projecta phase one
This first itteration of Projecta. Come out and show your support. Sign up for future projects
Digital artists from
across Aotearoa
The Pilot acts as an initial proof-of-concept for a longer-term vision exploring street art, projection, light and digital culture within Queenstown’s CBD. Sign up to get updates for future and upcoming events.
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Questions
Everything you need to know about Projecta and the event in Queenstown.
Projecta runs for one weekend only in Queenstown. The projection mapping runs the whole weekend starting June 30th.
The projections will be in downtown Queenstown on Absolute Hostel.
No this event is free to view but additional events could be ticketed so sign up to the newsletter to get access to the full set of events and first peek.
Yes. Projecta is designed for everyone. Bring those who appreciate art and architecture transformed by light.
Projecta 2026 is a taster of whats to come. We are planning to grow and expand the projection mapping over this weekend well into the future.
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