VR Pop Up Cinema 2026

4 to 17 May at Futuro-Haus | Free admission, free ticket required

Free admission, booking of free online tickets possible from 15 April 2026.

Immerse yourself in virtual art and nature – In 2026, DOK.fest München, in collaboration with XR HUB Bavaria and die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, will present three artistic virtual reality experiences and a 180° video at the Futuro House, a design icon created by architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. Outdoors, guests can experience a mixed reality application and design an augmented reality application.

Six immersive works unfold a multifaceted panorama between art, technology, and social reflection. While INSIDER OUTSIDER combines music, visuals, and movement into an immersive experience, DANCE DANCE DANCE takes viewers on a dance-filled journey through the iconic images of Henri Matisse. OUT OF NOWHERE focuses on an increasingly extreme climate and combines nature conservation with the question of our own future. SPACE TIME LAYERING uses AR to create interactive spaces of memory, while BEYOND MY SKIN opens up new forms of post-digital encounters between bodies in mixed reality. BELONGING accompanies Morag Myerscough and her vision of spaces for encounter and community.

The experiences

INSIDER-OUTSIDER

France 2026, Director: Philippe Cohen Solal, Co-production: Lucid Realities (Alessandra Bogi) und Science & Mélodie (Philippe Cohen Solal), Music: Philippe Cohen Solal and Mike Lindsay, Language: French, English, Length: 12 min.

INSIDER-OUTSIDER brings the work of American artist Henry Darger to life. In a universe of drawings, music, and interaction, participants move through imaginative spaces. They support and protect, influence their surroundings, and embark on a poetic journey that blends play, sound, and visual storytelling.

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Biography

Philippe Cohen Solal is an internationally active musician, composer, and producer. He gained recognition as a co-founder of “Gotan Project,” which blended electronic music with tango and garnered worldwide attention. In addition to his work in music production, he has undertaken projects in film, art, and performance. With the transmedia project OUTSIDER, he reinterprets the work of Henry Darger, combining music, visual art, and immersive media to create innovative experiences.

Further projects

TANGO Y TANGO, FR 2023, Album

75010, FR 2024, Album

DANCE DANCE DANCE – MATISSE

France 2025, Directors: Agnès Molia and Gordon, Co-Producers: Lucid Realities (Chloé Jarry), Tournez S'il Vous Plaît (Christie Molia), Choreographer and Performer: Sarah Silverblatt-Buser, Voice overs: Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Peter Hudson, with the support of: Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, with the participation of: Hangar Y, Languages: English, French, Length: 10 min.

Between 1906 and 1954, Henri Matisse created over twenty works on the theme of dance. DANCE DANCE DANCE – MATISSE is an immersive VR experience that allows visitors to immerse themselves in the world of this important artist with a choreography by Sarah Silverblatt-Buser. Visitors can see the creation of masterpieces such as “La Danse” and “La Danse de Merion.”

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one pair of VR glasses available

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Biographies

Gordon is a French writer, filmmaker and art director. After creating visual identities for television broadcasters and collaborating on musical films mixing video recordings and animation sequences, he turned his attention to immersive technologies and created a number of XR experiences such as ARCHI VR – La villa Savoye (co-produced with Lucid Realities, Centre des monuments nationaux and Fondation Le Corbusier), the virtual reality game “1,2,3...Bruegel!” (co-directed with Andrés Jarach, co-produced with Camera lucida, Arte France), and the augmented reality applications “BiblioQuête” (written by Andrés Jarach, co-produced with Red Corner, France Télévisions) and “The little dancer” (written by Marie Sellier, co-produced with Lucid Realtities, France Télévisions and Musée d'Orsay).

Agnès Molia is a French filmmaker and artistic director. With her sister Christie, she founded the audiovisual production company Tournez s'il vous plaît in 2002, and has directed numerous art, culture and heritage documentaries. For several years, she has been supervising films to accompany exhibitions, “Le mystère du dernier tableau de Van Gogh” (France 5 – Musée d'Orsay), and “Byzance: l'image en question” (Arte – Le Louvre).

They have both collaborated in the co-direction of the VR experiences “Champollion“, “the Egyptian“, “Monsieur Vincent“, and “Van Gogh's Palette“.

Further projects

CHAMPOLLION L'ÉGYPTIEN, FR 22, VR-Experience

LA PALETTE DE VAN GOGH, FR, TW 23, VR-Experience

OUT OF NOWHERE

Austria, Germany 2025, Producer and Director: Kris Hofmann, Narrated by: Saskia Reeves and Howard Nightingall (English), Technical Director: Andreas Wuthe, Co-Producer: Richard Pusch, Development Producer: Abigail Addison, Screenplay: Ira Wedel, Scientific Consultant: Prof. Mag. Dr. Franz Essl, Sound Design & Engineering: Max Thomasberger, Music: Elizabeth Purnell, Lead 3D Artist: Korbinian Urban, 3D Artist: Cara Mayer, Language: German and English, Length: 10 min.

OUT OF NOWHERE explores how preserving floodplain forests, swamps, and wetlands helps us cope with an unpredictable climate. From the perspective of Anna, who spent her life in Hallein, Austria, the VR experience recounts the devastating floods of 2021 and shows how reconnecting with nature can ensure our protection.

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Biography

Kris Hofmann is a creative director and producer of virtual and augmented experiences with a particular passion for crafting stories for children, about biodiversity and climate change. She was based in London from 2005 to 2019 where she earned an MA in Communication Design from the Royal College of Art. She now lives and works in Vienna.

Further projects

INSECTS & US, AT 2022, AR-Story

BIODIVERSITY CLOUD, AT 2023, AR-Experience

SPACE TIME LAYERING

Germany 2025, Artist: Annegret Bleisteiner, App Developer: Frank Groh, Language: German, Length: 10-15 min.

Space Time Layering creates an AR-supported art landscape that connects historical and digital worlds. With the app, users can actively design places of remembrance and hear the thoughts of pioneers such as George Sand and Bettina von Arnim. This encounter between history, space, and time opens up a feminist resonance space.

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one pair of VR glasses available

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Biography

Annegret Bleisteiner, born in Passau in 1968, studied art education and contemporary art at the Academy of Fine Arts Nürnberg and the Art Academy Düsseldorf, where she obtained her Master of Fine Arts. She was a master student of Konrad Klapheck and Rosemarie Trockel. Bleisteiner has received numerous scholarships and residencies, including the Curt Wills Foundation Residency in Mallorca (2024) and a scholarship from the Fondazione Ratti, Como (1990). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Berlin, Vienna, and Rome. She is known for her interdisciplinary projects that combine physical and digital realities, exploring the intersections between virtual and physical bodies.

Further projects

TURMBAU ZU BABEL, DE 2024, Installation

NICHTSTUN, DE 2023, Video

BEYOND MY SKIN

Austria 2024, Conception and Artistic Director: Flavia Mazzanti, Realisation: Immerea, Project Management, Design and Installation: Manuel Bonell, Cast: Olivia Hild and Imani Rameses, Sound Design: Brootworth, Technical Artist: Tobias Mayer, Programming: Catherine Joy Calupas and Michael Bonell, Length: 7 min.

Beyond My Skin brings together digital bodies and real spaces in a mixed reality experience. Visitors see virtual performers enter the space through motion capture technology. Flavia Mazzanti's project questions the interaction between physical, digital, and social spaces and explores a new form of intimacy.

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Biography

Flavia Mazzanti is a multimedia artist based in Vienna, working between Vienna and São Paulo. Her practice focuses at the intersection of post-photographic and experimental media, exploring questions about body, perception, and post-anthropocentric perspectives. Listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List of 2023, her works have been shown and awarded at multiple national and international exhibitions and festivals worldwide, among others the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, AT), DIG Shibuya (Tokyo, JP), Museums Kunst Haus Wien (Vienna, AT) and Kunsthaus Graz (Graz, AT), FILE Festival, (São Paulo, BR), Digital Arts Festival (Zurich, CH). Alongside her artistic practice, Flavia is co-founder of Immerea, an indie studio focusing on the development of experimental VR games and interactive installations, co-organizer of the Austrian community for immersive technologies XR Austria, and active as university lecturer and speaker at conferences and festivals.

Further projects

SYMPOIETIC BODIES, AT 2020, Short film

NEURO-TRACES, AT 2021, BCI + VR Installation

BELONGING

Germany 2025, Director and Camera: Amadeus Hiller, Language: English, Length: 15 min.

Color as the colorful language of community: British artist Morag Myerscough is creating a new installation at the Pinakothek der Moderne. The film BELONGING follows her between the cities of Munich and London and offers a very personal insight into her work — and into how art can create spaces where people can meet.

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Recommended from 12 years
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Biography

British artist Morag Myerscough lives and works in London. Known for her colorful, graphic installations, she transforms public spaces around the world into vibrant places of encounter. From schools and hospitals to cultural institutions, she develops site-specific works that invite people to experience spaces in new ways. At the heart of her practice is the idea of belonging: she often collaborates with local communities and incorporates cultural histories and identities into her projects. She has received numerous awards for her work.

Further projects

LOVE LETTERS, FR 2024, Installation

WILD FLOWERS, CN 2023, Installation