In 2026 programmes for the BMW Collectors Co. continue their commitment to cultivating informed, curious, and critically engaged collectors. The programmes focus on artistic practice as a process of expansion. Across disciplines, materials, and ways of thinking, these experiences invite members to consider how artists work across mediums, and how meaning is shaped through collaboration, translation, and context.
On Visceral Mediums with Penny Siopis
Working across painting, installation, film, and found materials, her practice reflects an ongoing inquiry into memory, migration, and the relations between the human and non-human, held within what she describes as a ‘poetics of vulnerability’. Beginning with a gallery visit and continuing to Siopis’ studio, the day provides insight into artistic process, material sensibility, and the conditions under which work is produced and encountered.
On Bookbinding and Printmaking
Focusing on the book as both object and site of artistic inquiry, this session examines the relationship between printmaking, binding, and independent publishing. Members are introduced to the material decisions behind editioning, sequencing, and circulation, and how artists use print to think through narrative, repetition, and access.
On a Practice Across Mediums
This session considers artistic practice not as fixed to a single form, but as something that unfolds across materials, disciplines, and contexts. Bringing members into dialogue with artists whose work moves between mediums, it traces how ideas shift as they are translated from one form to another, and how meaning is reconfigured in the process. For collectors, it offers a framework for understanding works beyond their surface, attending instead to the relationships, intentions, and trajectories that inform their making.
The BMW Art Generation Vol. IV
Opening the BMW Collectors Co. programme to the public, The BMW Art Generation brings celebrated, established and young artists, curators and academics, together in conversation with collectors to imagine, celebrate and protect the future of contemporary African art. Taking place on African soil, the experience asserts the continent’s role in shaping the world’s tomorrow. An all inclusive day, beyond the conference, The BMW Art Generation’s programming includes performance art, live music as well as a boutique market with stalls dedicated to demonstrating the very best in African culture.