Disclosed are a display apparatus and a contents display method. The display apparatus includes: a mobile device tracing information processing unit for receiving position information or orientation information of a mobile device and generating tracing information of the mobile device based on the received position information or orientation information of the mobile device; a gesture processing unit for receiving input information of the mobile device and generating gesture information to change an output format of contents by using the received input information; a rendering unit for generating a predetermined contents image based on the tracing information of the mobile device and the gesture information; and a display unit for displaying the generated contents image.