The exhibition »Writing the History of the Future« focuses on the major topics the ZKM has dealt with over the past 30 years: artistic and social change against the background of digitization.

For a long time the reactions of Earth to our human actions remained unnoticed, but in recent times with the protest movement Fridays for Future climate crisis has moved into public consciousness. The thought exhibition »CRITICAL ZONES« invites us to deal with the CRITICAL situation of the Earth.

UNESCO Creative Cities Network Media Arts Cluster

Along with nine other Cities of Media Arts in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network — Austin (United States), Braga (Portugal), Calí (Columbia), Changsha (China), Guadalajara (Mexico), Košice (Slovakia), Sapporo (Japan), Viborg (Denmark), and York (United Kingdom) — at the beginning of September 2020 Karlsruhe’s Department of Cultural Affairs invited media artists in their city to submit proposals for projects. Media artists from all over the world responded to the call.

The media art festival "Seasons of Media Arts" presents digital, interactive and virtual art in the public space and is turning Karlsruhe into a stage for innovative ideas, of creative and networked media art.