ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe is a unique cultural institution worldwide, because it is a place that expands the original tasks of the museum.

It is a house of all media and genres, a house of both spatial arts such as painting, photography and sculpture and time-based arts such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater and performance. ZKM was founded in 1989 with the mission of continuing the classical arts into the digital age. This is why it is sometimes called the “electronic or digital Bauhaus” – an expression that is traced back to the founding director Heinrich Klotz.

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Lorenzstraße 19
76135 Karlsruhe

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Calendar

Ulrich Bernhardt. NOW: It Was, Will Be, and Is

06. December 2025 — 26. April 2026

The ZKM exhibition honors Stuttgart-based media art pioneer Ulrich Bernhardt with a comprehensive presentation of works that interweave time, transience, and technological as well as mythological processes of transformation within an open artistic practice.

Giga-Hertz Festival for Electronic Music and Sound Art

20. November 2025 — 22. November 2025

Three days of immersive sound art, electronic music, collective listening sessions, and creative workshops in the unique sound dome.

Karlsruhe Forum for Culture, Law and Technology

09. October 2025

The full-day symposium explores freedom of speech and press, the clarity of legal rulings, and the power of language—from escalating terms and fake news to AI dialogue partners and respectful communication.

Exhibition ‘Phyto-Travellers’ at ZKM | Kubus Subraum

25. July 2025 — 26. October 2025

The artist Eva-Maria Lopez, through her newly conceived installation, narrates the migratory histories of various plant species. Presented within a dynamic garden archive, the artwork reveals the interconnections between colonial expansion, cultural appropriation, and ecological challenges.

Assembling Grounds. Practices of Coexistence

25. July 2025 — 31. May 2026

The new exhibition chapter within the framework of Fellow Travellers brings together artistic perspectives from India and Sri Lanka that engage with forms of knowledge, cultural resistance, and ecological challenges.