Free exhibition with over 50 works by Vera Molnar and eight contemporary generative artists exploring algorithmic and digital art.
Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnar and Generative Art opened at the V&A South Kensington on 16 October, and it's staying put until Sunday 30 May 2027. It's a substantial show, with over 50 works by Vera Molnar, one of the earliest pioneers of computer art, and it's held in Rooms 88A and 90.
Molnar's career spans decades, and the exhibition lets you trace that arc. You'll see her early paintings, the plotter drawings she produced when computers were still massive machines, and her later self-portraits. The whole thing is built around how her early experiments with computers and algorithmic thinking—the idea of setting a set of rules and letting a machine run with them—still ring true in digital art today.
She's not the only one on display, though. The show brings together eight contemporary generative artists alongside her, including Casey Reas, Licia He, William Mapan and Harm van den Dorpel. Seeing them in the same space makes the connection easier to spot: the same logic Molnar was working with decades ago is still at the heart of how these artists make their work now. It's part of the V&A's Digital Art & Design collection, and there's an online curator talk, Vera Molnar and Generative Art, to go with it if you want more context.
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It's free to enter and you don't need to book, so you can just turn up whenever suits. The V&A is on Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL, and the exhibition runs from now until 30 May 2027.
