On Wednesday, 15 October 2025, at 7 p.m., the opening of the exhibition City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground will take place at the TUM Architecture Museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne. Curated by Damjan Kokalevski, the exhibition will be open to the public from 16 October 2025 to 8 March 2026.
City in the Cloud - Data on the Ground addresses the increasing digital transformation of our lives and the associated rapid growth of global data infrastructures – from undersea cables to data centres. It highlights their enormous economic significance as well as their social and ecological costs. In doing so, it opens up a discussion about how data can be shaped in the future in the interests of a fair and ecologically responsible collective future. The central question is how the increasing demand for data can be reconciled with equitable and sustainable development. The exhibition examines the materiality of data, its places of production and consumption, and its impact on landscapes, architecture, memory and cultural heritage. By revealing the places where data is constructed and making its planetary footprint visible, it raises awareness of the pressing question: what should be kept and what should be let go?
The exhibition is organised around a series of questions that are visible in the space and explored in greater theoretical depth in the catalogue, edited by Cara Hähl-Pfeifer, Damjan Kokalevski and Andres Lepik. Supplemented by the Data Talks podcast, which is recorded on site and streamed live, it opens up the discussion to a wider audience and invites them to rethink the role of data infrastructures for a democratic, ecological-technological future.
When:
Opening: 15 October 2025, 7 pm
Exhibition: 16 October 2025 - 8 March 2026
Where:
Architekturmuseum der TUM
Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Straße 40
80333 Munich
Further information:
Architekturmuseum der TUM