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.

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.

UNESCO Creative Cities Network Media Arts Cluster

On Thursday December 10th, 2020 at 3:00 PM CET the opening of the virtual exhibition "City to City: Human Responsibility" will take place as a zoom event and livestream via Facebook.
Along with eight other 8 Cities of Media Arts Karlsruhe’s Department of Cultural Affairs invited artists to work together to create digital media arts pieces around the theme "Human Responsibility”.

In context with the Initiative UNITED DANISH APPEAL FOR FUNDS* the UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Viborg invites the world to sharpen its pencils and together with Denmark draw for children affected by Covid-19 across the world

International short film competition

The Filmboard Karlsruhe, together with the INDEPENDENT DAYS | International Film Festival Karlsruhe, invites creative professionals from all over the world to the short film competition "UNDERGROUND FILM AWARD".