Dear VRHAMily, dear friends and partners!

We have spent the last few months working hard on a new edition of the VRHAM! Festival for 2024. However, the creative industry and its players have undergone major changes due to the aftermath of the global pandemic. At the same time, the tense geopolitical and economic situation has made financial support from sponsors increasingly difficult. Furthermore, technical and artistic innovations are developing at a rapid pace, which makes it necessary for a festival like ours to rethink and search for new exhibition formats in order to adequately present this exponentially developing art form.

That is why, after five festival years (with annual innovations and extraordinary artistic experiments), VRHAM! is once again setting a new course: in consultation with the Department of Culture and Media of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, we have decided not to hold a festival edition in the familiar format in 2024, but instead we are planning – at best in close cooperation with other cultural players in Hamburg! – to develop a new festival format for future years that will be adapted to the new circumstances and offer a forward-looking form of presentation. We want to present a wider range of immersive media, create new digital formats and encounters and make this extraordinary art form accessible to an even wider audience than we have been able to so far.

We are looking forward to the concept phase and will of course keep you up to date!

Your

VRHAM! team