Vectors
- VO’26 Special
14.05 - 24.05.2026
Various Others (VO) is Munich's international festival for contemporary art, established in 2017. The initiative highlights the diversity and quality of Munich's art scene while fostering international exchange. At its core, VO emphasizes cooperation: firstly, locally among all Munich participants as well as with its international network of guests: galleries, institutions, artist run spaces, curators, and, most importantly, artists presenting their work in Munich.
Building on this collaborative foundation, the vibrant program of the VO participants will once again be complemented by a VO Special. Vectors (is a parcours exhibition unfolding within corporate environments across the city of Munich. Inspired by Jan Hoet’s Chambres d’Amis (Ghent, 1986)—which brought contemporary art in private homes—Vectors embeds artworks within Munich’s offices. In doing so, it temporarily transforms corporate settings into exhibition venues, inviting the public inside and offering a glimpse into where our future is shaped.
The exhibition takes the form of a series of interventions—vectors—that connect multiple sites throughout the city, collectively creating an exhibition embedded in spaces that foreground Munich’s unique position as a leading European technology hub. Visitors and employees alike will encounter compelling works that explore the cultural, aesthetic and ethical dimensions of technology—presented within the very environments where innovation is taking place today. Each presentation, and the respective works on display, resonate with the mission and contribution of their host context – highlighting how visual artists have played, and will continue to play a crucial role in contextualising and adopting technology as it evolves.
The concept of Vectors—those directional lines of information that underpin technologies from early computing to today's complex AI LLMs—serve as both metaphor and curatorial framework. Each intervention has been carefully conceived by an invited curator among them, Dominik Bais, Sebastian Hoffmann, Margit Rosen, Luisa Seipp, Claudia Tittel and Hanns Lennart Wiesner. Through these constellations of ideas, works and sites, the exhibition invites viewers to shift from past to present and into speculation—revealing how artistic and technological thinking have long evolved in parallel, shaping both our material and imaginative worlds.
Participating hosts include Apple, BMW, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Celonis, Oskar (Swiss Life), Polarise, Munich Urban Colab, and Deutsches Museum. All venues can be visited as part of guided tours, which can be booked here.