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Innovative, collaborative media art projects by freelance artists from Karlsruhe and the surrounding region are sought for a six-month media art scholarship, which includes a workspace and exhibition space at studio hö.

At the Badischer Kunstverein, Anna Barham explores in installations, videos, and sound works how language can become audible, tangible, and subversive beyond digital smoothing and hegemonic norms.

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.

Under the motto The Archive Lives!, the student-run cinema of the HfG Karlsruhe brings rare gems from its own collection, rediscovered treasures, and special events back to the big screen

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.

With this exhibition, the ZKM | Karlsruhe provides a new insight into its own collection and simultaneously tells the history of media art from the 1950s to the present day.

Join the International Weeks against Racism 2026 in Karlsruhe for exhibitions, talks, and performances.

IRIS-A-MAZ’s video transforms the foyer of the Kinemathek Karlsruhe into a spatial frieze, blending Renaissance motifs with contemporary media art to explore falling and transitions between states.

A monumental installation by Fahar Al-Salih of over 500 handcrafted birdcages exploring questions of freedom, memory, and belonging. On view at the Evangelische Stadtkirche Karlsruhe.

Innovative, collaborative media art projects by freelance artists from Karlsruhe and the surrounding region are sought for a six-month media art scholarship, which includes a workspace and exhibition space at studio hö.

At the Badischer Kunstverein, Anna Barham explores in installations, videos, and sound works how language can become audible, tangible, and subversive beyond digital smoothing and hegemonic norms.

Alongside art karlsruhe, 20 off-spaces and project spaces open in Karlsruhe, presenting contemporary art up close in fresh and surprising formats.

At the Karlsruhe Forum in Hall 3, the UNESCO City of Media Arts invites visitors to immerse themselves in a walk-in vision of future living spaces with Soft Utopia.

Students of the Karlsruhe University of Music as Guests at GEDOK Karlsruhe.

The Photography and Media Art Group presents audiovisual installations, neon light art, experimental photography, and video art by its new members at the GEDOK Künstlerinnenforum.

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.

A three-day festival of computer music celebrating glitches, algorithms, and speculation.

Chiharu Koda transforms studio hö into an interactive installation, where urban movements and encounters can be experienced like a living river.

The workshop explores, from an artistic perspective, how right-wing networks use social media to radicalize, and what concrete interventions are possible to actively counter these dynamics.

Nicl Barbro and Edgar Unger present at Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen how fragile the moments between control and loss of control can be: in their sculptures, drawings, and sound works, missteps, risk, and insight intersect.

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

The ZeitGenuss Festival opens spaces for diversity of perspectives and encounters, weaving together music, dance, word, and media art in extraordinary venues across the city. With unusual formats, it invites audiences to intense, sensuous, and discursive musical experiences.

Call for creative projection mapping concepts for the façade of Karlsruhe Palace at SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE 2026.

How do places shape our identity and our ways of living together, and what role do they play for democracy today? The workshop invites participants to explore these questions through dialogue and to rethink the significance of public spaces for citizenship and community.

The 32nd PRIDE PICTURES bring eight days of queer film culture to Karlsruhe.

Experience at KIT Science Week how researchers and citizens come together to develop ideas for a livable, sustainable, and just city of the future.

Under the motto The Archive Lives!, the student-run cinema of the HfG Karlsruhe brings rare gems from its own collection, rediscovered treasures, and special events back to the big screen

For the fifth time, the Regional Council of Karlsruhe will become a showcase for the cultural and creative industries, featuring diverse presentations by artists and creative professionals.

With corner, science comes right into the city – directly to everyone who is curious, wants to join the conversation, and take part in research.

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.

Artists from around the world are invited to submit innovative projects that connect digital and analog spaces as part of SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe 2026.

A play like a lonely evening on your smartphone.

The Orangerie Karlsruhe becomes a resonance space for sound installations, acoustic walks, and sound performances that make its distinctive architecture audible.

Munich-based artist Gülbin Ünlü presents in her solo exhibition at Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe works that expand the techniques of printmaking and painting into spatial dimensions.

The Farsi Film Festival is aimed at film enthusiasts and people who are interested in Iranian and Afghan culture and the Farsi (Persian) language.

The studios of the media art initiative Lichtspielsauna and the collective Francis Karat transform Karlsruhe’s Oststadt into a Dadaist parallel universe.

Guided tours on three dates to view media artworks in the city area.

Media art is here brings innovative media art back into public spaces in 2025 – interactive and free of charge.

In 2025, the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe will celebrate its 11th edition. Under the motto The Shining Lights of Science, the projections will mark the anniversary of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

On Saturday, August 2, the 26th KAMUNA invites visitors to over 240 cultural events in 21 museums across Karlsruhe under the motto Knowledge Creates Diversity.

In the interactive exhibition Imaginat, visitors create their own compositions using analogue materials, which are transformed by AI into fascinating river images and projected live onto the wall.

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.

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.

The HfG Karlsruhe invites you to its annual summer exhibition – with insights into current design, art and theory.

The Badischer Kunstverein is presenting I have lived with a sunflower for 130 days, the first comprehensive exhibition of Romanian artist Ștefan Bertalan in Germany. In parallel, Plants_Intelligence sheds light on current artistic perspectives on the intelligence and agency of plants.

The annual exhibition of the Information Design program at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences focuses on the topic of the energy transition.

The exhibition showcases the visionary work of Cesare Leonardi and invites visitors to rethink the relationship between humans, nature, and design.

In the interactive installation by Chiharu Koda and Sierk Schmalzriedt, vibrating water bowls generate striking patterns that will be activated live during the opening on June 26 at studio hö – a composition of frequency, resonance, and image.

In a contemporary production of Digitaltheater, Goethe’s ballad Der Zauberlehrling meets current questions about artificial intelligence and technical control. The world premiere will take place on June 6, 2025 in the Studio of the Staatstheater Karlsruhe.

Experience film classics on 35mm in a summery open-air atmosphere, accompanied by DJ sets, a bar and a supporting programme.

How does art influence urban development? The digiTALK invites you to a discussion on art, participation, and shaping the urban future.

The conference explores how Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing film production – from creative processes to ethical and legal questions.

As part of the series Art in Dialogue, the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe explores the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of AI-generated images.

The Alter Schlachthof creative park opens its doors and invites you to take a fascinating look at creative workshops, exhibitions and hands-on activities.

The interactive light installation by Chris Spatschek opens on May 9 with an electronic live set by Brnjsmin and contributions by cicada x dkyuh – a dialogue between art, environment, and sound.

Karlsruhe celebrates Europe: the Europe Days 2025 invite you to experience European cooperation and cultural diversity in the heart of the city with creative impulses, exciting projects and diverse activities.

The festival brings together poetry, sound, and performance in a diverse program centered around the work of Lenora de Barros at the Badischer Kunstverein.

The central square is being transformed into a vibrant place of encounter and inspiration through an interdisciplinary art installation and a diverse program of workshops, performances, and events.

A visually rich, interactive media artwork is sought to be centrally exhibited on a presentation platform at art karlsruhe 2026.

The international film festival presents 128 films from 32 countries.

On April 17, Peter Piek merges music and art into a unique experience. The accompanying exhibition opens on April 9.

With this exhibition, the ZKM | Karlsruhe provides a new insight into its own collection and simultaneously tells the history of media art from the 1950s to the present day.

cu presents a spatial installation by Pauline Gosselin, where video and photographic works, along with cinematic relics, engage in a multilayered dialogue.

For the sixth time, the Department of Cultural Affairs is awarding funding for media art projects in public spaces. The focus is on regional and international cooperation, interdisciplinarity and artistic exchange.

Application phase for prospective students for starting their studies in the upcoming winter semester 2025/26 at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG).

Vibrant, unpredictable, unconventional, surprising, improvised – an evening mosaic of art and encounters in numerous project spaces.

A work of media art created especially for the fair will be presented at the Karlsruhe Forum in Hall 3.

In this exhibition at the Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Nicolas Fehr and Juliane Schmitt, both graduates of the HfG Karlsruhe, open a dialogue between tradition and transformation.

Around 30 graduates will present their final projects and make their works accessible to a broad public.

The workshop explores the figure of the “voyeur” and uses visual culture to investigate the power and resistance of the Western perspective on the South Caucasus. The public program begins at 6 p.m. with a discussion with invited artists from Tbilisi (Georgia).

The Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe and the ZKM | Karlsruhe invite visitors to the Open House Day at Hallenbau with a colorful program of activities.

The ZKM exhibition offers fresh insights into 30 years of the development of alternative browsers.

Artists’ books and print media are presented in workshops, lectures and exhibitions.

In 2025, KIT invites you to take part in exhibitions, experiments, visits, celebrations, multimedia events, and dialogues – whether you are on stage or online, nerd or newbie, young or old.

The symposium of the HfG and the ZKM Karlsruhe is dedicated to the redefinition of research and teaching in art, theory and design and responds to current paradigm shifts through the development of interdisciplinary and hybrid formats. Registration possible until November 22.

The multimedia installation by the artist collective Francis Karat will be shown at the tourist information centre on Marktplatz.

The exhibition at the BBK shows photographs, video installations and live performances that explore the fleeting moment and the interaction between body and space.

The media artwork by the Karlsruhe artist collective VOLNA transforms the new entrance at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe into a portal to a virtual world before each performance beginning November 9th and continuing for the rest of the 2024/2025 season.

In her performance, Judith Milz combines the fictitious spaces of the artworks with the real spaces of the Kunstverein, creating new references.

In the theatre play, the audience takes over the complicity live in the auditorium and creates a different reality every evening.

Current works explore the possibilities of spatial sound and artistic expression with immersive and experimental sound techniques.

Wieoftnoch presents selected works by the Düsseldorf-based artist duo Hedda Roman.

The international symposium reflects on how social media, cloud storage, surveillance technologies and communication networks are transforming our practices of remembering and forgetting.

Once again this year, visitors can expect a colourful mix of films, discussions, parties and a special short film award to celebrate the diversity of queer film culture.

On this evening, the HfG Karlsruhe invites you to the ceremonial opening of the winter semester and welcomes not only guests and friends of the university, but above all new students and employees as well as two new appointments.

A showcase for Karlsruhe’s cultural and creative industries

The program spans the entire winter semester 24/25 like a rainbow and shows 10 films of various genres that are dedicated to the fascinating phenomenon of colour in cinema.

KAE’s artworks combine self-programmed software and hacked hardware to create interactive spatial installations and invite a playful exploration of digital surfaces.

Citizens, artists and young creatives from Karlsruhe can apply for the international exchange programme until November 15, 2024.

We are looking for pioneering artistic projects that connect the digital space of the projections on the façade of Karlsruhe Palace with the analogue urban space and make it possible to experience it in a new way through creative, interactive or technological approaches.

With Fellow Travellers the ZKM is creating a polyphonic and dynamic exhibition space, through which artists, scientists, communities, and citizens can collaborate and learn from each other.

Vera Gärtner and Leonie Mühlen are exhibiting their current artistic positions in the Forum of the Städtsiche Galerie Karlsruhe.

Badischer Kunstverein presents concurrent exhibitions by Tris Vonna-Michell and VALIE EXPORT this fall.

For one week, a comprehensive programme exploring freedom and democratic values will be offered on Kronenplatz in Karlsruhe, including lectures, panel discussions and artistic contributions

Luke Jerram’s art installation will be on display for three weeks at the Stadtkirche Karlsruhe in autumn 2024.

The Karlsruhe Katzenwedelwiese will become a stage for an international exchange of media artists and art educators who will create new perspectives with sound performances, tea ceremonies and collective walks.

The festival offers an insight into auteur animation films that impress with their innovative visual design and profound narrative art.

The brand new production and showroom studio hö opens at Kaiserstrasse 3.

For the scholarship from March 2025 to January 2026, media artists can apply individually or as a collective until November 1, 2024.

Discover the installation Fungal Frequencies by SurrealLabor and find out more about the underground network of hyphae of the fungi! An event within the framework of Media art is here.

Guided tours on four dates to the media artworks in the city area.

The collaborative project will be released on August 17 with a supporting programme at COLA TAXI OKAY. An event within the framework of Media art is here.

The UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe presents the annual media art exhibition in public spaces.

In 2024, the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe will enter its 10th edition. Under the title Everybody Counts, they will focus in particular on the topics of law, freedom and democracy.

KAMUNA offers a varied programme with over 240 activities, including AI workshops, historical tours and retro video game machines, in 18 cultural institutions, with free admission for 25-year-olds.

For pupils who want to explore their creative interests and gain insights into potential study opportunities at the HfG Karlsruhe.

In addition to this year’s Live Coding Edition, there will be a workshop on algorithmic patterns inspired by geometric South Indian rhythms on Saturday, July 27th.

The group exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe presents experimental works by five international artists who rethink the relationship between man and nature.

An impressive exhibition of student works and performances, accompanied by award ceremonies, guided tours, music and other artistic highlights.

The media art cities of Cali and Karlsruhe are looking for two artists to take part in an international exchange programme to develop a joint work.

The joint exhibition of HfG and ZKM explores how the future has been imagined, projected or practiced within the ZKM archive.

As part of the recently opened exhibition Radio-Choreography: Acts of Transmission by artist Netta Weiser, the Badischer Kunstverein is offering a varied programme of events from 3 July.

Do you enjoy researching, writing and media art? Then you’ve come to the right place!

The ZKM exhibition engages with the motif of the black flag by means of three selected works, which can be interpreted in multiple ways, both aesthetically and politically.

The long-established school festival brings the diversity of French cinema to life and takes students on an inspiring journey through compelling stories and cultural insights.

Once again this year, the University of Arts and Design invites audiences to unforgettable film evenings in the open air, with musical backing and a varied programme.

We are looking for an image-rich, interactive media artwork to be exhibited in the centre of the presentation area of the City of Karlsruhe as part of art KARLSRUHE 2025.

Making digitalization in Karlsruhe visible and tangible for everyone. For the third time, Karlsruhe as digital location will be hosting workshops, start-up pitches, discussion rounds, company events, guided tours and much more.

An art experience especially for young audiences with short guided tours, drinks and a live DJ.

As Europe’s largest meet-up of university studios for electronic music, the international ZKM Festival offers up-and-coming composers a platform to present their new musical developments.

Four days full of hacks, workshops and tech passion at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.

Interactive light installation under the canopy of the Kinemathek Karlsruhe.

Experience a unique mix of visual arts, media art, live music, theatre and much more at an unforgettable festival of creativity in Karlsruhe.

This year’s programme offers topics ranging from futuristic visions to a personal examination of faith and identity.

The exhibition provides insights into the complex relationship between man and machine, which is artfully reflected in the works.

For the first time not only open to Karlsruhe residents, but also to international applicants.

The Film Exploratorium at the ZKM Media Theater is part of the series Traumfabrik#26.

The festive opening of the semester will feature exciting new appointments and musical performances in the atriums of the Hallenbau.

Experience a fascinating fusion of art and technology, where live coding performances and workshops challenge the boundaries of what is possible and open up new creative horizons.

The Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg offers this workshop for artists who run project spaces or are planning to do so.

The Filmboard Karlsruhe offers aspiring filmmakers the opportunity to realise their creative short film concepts with a production grant

Under the motto Human rights for all, a variety of events are promoting awareness and mobilisation against racism.

Apply now for communication design, product design, media art, exhibition design & scenography or art research & media philosophy!

The workshop offers the opportunity to get an introduction into using Wikipedia in combination with working on media art content.

As part of art KARLSRUHE, selected project spaces and off-spaces from the independent art and culture scene open their doors.

UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Karlsruhe with media art presentation at international art fair for Classical Modern and Contemporary art at the Messe Karlsruhe.

UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts with media art works from ZKM and HfG at the International Fair for Classic Modern and Contemporary Art at the Messe Karlsruhe.

The Kinemathek and Co. show a wide range of outstanding silent films.

New date – new insights: this is the motto of the “Hallenbau Open House” 2024

Media Art at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe – one night, four shows.

In this new exhibition, the two Japanese artists explore the relationship between people and the environment and time around them in different ways.

To mark the shortest day of the year, different short film days will be hosted in Karlsruhe for two days. The focus is on animated short films and films on the subject of In der Schwebe.

Can analog documents and the latest AI-based technology be combined in a single work? This is the question posed by the artist collective “Francis Karat”.

The open call provides the organizational framework for realizing an extraordinary work of art under excellent conditions in cooperation with Viborg.

As part of the annual festival, the main prize is awarded at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. This year’s winner is the US-American Laurie Spiegel.

The artwork by Heinz Mack in the EnBW Group headquarters.

Experience transtraditional music in the most diverse forms of mediation at the Badisches Staatstheater

How do current conflicts affect artistic and cultural production and what are possible (future) perspectives? These questions will be explored in the symposium.

To celebrate the festival’s anniversary, 15 international feature films, documentaries and 3 short film programs will be presented.

How is media art mediated outside Europe? Fanny Kranz and Barbara Kiolbassa tried to find the answer to this question and present their results in the ASIA TRIP TALK.

The award is given for innovative projects that combine the digital space of the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE projection mappings with the analogue space in front of the Karlsruhe Palace.

The award will again be offered to national and international artists in 2024.

The interactive installation created by Holger Förterer mixes the apparent protection of shelter with a subtle ominousness that puts visitors in a state of uncertainty.

This immersive light installation and live performance addresses climate change from a future perspective on our present.

Renowned speakers and representatives from the business world will present the latest developments in the field of AI and its application.

Contemporary music resounds over the stages of the city for the 10th anniversary edition.

Internationally renowned scientists present the latest research on sustainability and climate protection to citizens interested in science.

Experience innovative business models and exciting ideas from entrepreneurs who shape Karlsruhe’s cultural and creative environment.

As part of the new exhibition, the atria 8+9 of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media will be turned into showcases for radiant light installations.

With a concert in the rotunda of the Vierordtbad, composer Kris Felix Bauer presents the new pieces from his soundtrack at this concert special.

The Ideal Spaces Working Group questions concepts of modern urbanity and hosts discussions about the relationship between space and community.

UNESCO City of Media Arts presents impressive media and light art at numerous locations in Karlsruhe’s city center throughout the summer.

The façade of Karlsruhe Palace will once again become a canvas for impressive projection mappings by international media artists.

As part of the new exhibition series zwischenräume, the central atrium of the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe will become the stage for an installation that combines film, performance, and architecture.

Until July 2, applicants and interested persons can sign up for a digital Q&A session on the project funding program for media art.

To honor Ulrike Rosenbach’s 80th birthday, the ZKM | Karlsruhe is exhibiting a comprehensive exhibition of the media artist’s work.

As part of the Hallenbau summer program, the ZKM, together with the HfG, the Städtische Galerie and the Kunsthalle, invites you to a session of live coding afterwork.

In three parts, the exhibition presents seven prototypes for sustainable coexistence that were developed within this framework.

Artists, cultural workers and institutions from Karlsruhe can apply for funding for media art and international networking projects until September 29.

Workshop to learn how to code live with Strudel from Tidal Cycles as a follow-up to the iterative ßpace event of the Karlsruhe TOPLAP community.

Four days of hacking, goulash, lectures, chunk, workshops, lounge, mate and fun on the device.

The exchange program is aimed at artists from the two UNESCO Cities of Media Arts. The goal is to create a media artwork for public space in joint collaboration during two residencies.

The Karlsruhe Documentary Festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year and is once again presenting diverse documentaries and audio documentaries.

UNESCO City of Media Arts with a strong presence at the international fair for classical modern and contemporary art at the Messe Karlsruhe.

Start of ticket sales. A total of 123 features from 36 countries will be screened at the SCHAUBURG cinema during the the five days of the festival.

Algorithmic music alongside experimental and hybrid live coding away from massive dance rhythms at ßpace.

This year’s Live Coding Edition will feature both local and international artists.

The exhibition will feature the video installation by artist Justin Koch, and will be presented alongside screenings of a series of films on the topic of water.

Renaissance 3.0 establishes a Base Camp for New Alliances of Art and Science in the 21st Century and is Peter Weibel’s final exhibition.

The International Weeks against Racism have started. For a fortnight, there will be events all over Karlsruhe on the subject of racism.

Creative Weibs is the first series of events for female founders and entrepreneurs in the cultural and creative industries in Karlsruhe.

The video installation Ballet of the Cities by Jonas Denzel will be the artistic contribution from the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe in Timisoara – European Capital of Culture 2023.

Applications for the Media Arts Film Scholarship 2023 are open until 31 May.

The art action shows current works by young media artists at the Badisches Staatstheater. Entrance is free.

To mark the end of its 30th anniversary year, the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe will be hosting a symposium to discuss the future of the university and its contribution to society.

What can the museum of the future look like? The intelligent.museum project has been developing artistic AI prototypes for new exhibition concepts since 2020.

A pioneer of video and computer art, Analivia Cordeiro has been exploring the relationships between the body, movement, visual and audiovisual art, and media art since the early 1970s.

As part of the exhibition Drawing Rooms: Marcel van Eeden | Karl Hubbuch, the Städtische Galerie and the Kinemathek Karlsruhe will show films selected by the artist with a short introduction to his artistic work.

With Sonic Spaces 2023, the ZKM | Hertz-Lab awards 5 scholarships for composers having a focus area in the field of electronic music and sound art as part of its artist-in-residence program.

The exhibition showcases the work of architect Ole Scheeren, born in Karlsruhe in 1971, and explores the question of how today’s architecture creates prototypes for living tomorrow.

Karlsruhe artists and creatives watch out! The Video Mapping Contest offers the opportunity to participate in a video mapping competition in Lille, France.

The showcase of the cultural and creative industries.

The ZKM exhibition Then, now, and then consists of fourteen new films that the Dutch artist made during a residency in Rome in 2017 and subsequent visits to the Italian capital.

The literary-performative art project by Nils Menrad, Ann Cotten and Andreas Kohlbecker will be presented as a preview at the Ursula Blickle Lab.

Three institutions – one building: under the title The Anniversaries! the Hallenbau Festival celebrates 25 years of the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe and the ZKM | Karlsruhe in the Hallenbau as well as 30 years of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.

A project by Michael Saup in cooperation with karlsruhe.digital, the ZKM | Karlsruhe and UNESCO City of Media Arts.

The ZKM exhibition presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of all the phases in the oeuvre of this pioneer of electronic art.

The BBBank-Award Projection Mapping is again inviting international artists to bring in their ideas and be a part of it in 2023.

An arch of illuminated globes over the Via Triumphalis as a gateway and bridge to the world.

When Language Is Lost: Possibilities of Art in the Face of War.

The sound installation by Hendrik Vogel will be presented during the art weekend Karlsruhe at the Luis Leu art space.

The ZKM exhibition is the first solo exhibition in Germany of Korean-French artist Soun-Gui Kim.

A joint project of the UNESCO Creative Cities Curitiba, Querétaro und Wuhan.

Jazz, Groove and Hiphop live at the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE.

Participatory light installation transforms the Karlstraße with a fascinating play of colours.

Only here: Media and light art to discover in the city, free of charge and accessible to all.

The facade of Karlsruhe’s palace becomes a canvas for impressive projection mappings by international media artists.

Karlsruhe as UNESCO City of Media Arts presents six media artworks in the city center at the plenary assembly of the World Council of Churches in Karlsruhe.

An exhibition and event platform online and in the Hardtwald, Karlsruhe.

The fair, which takes place every two years, gives artists from Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Alsace the opportunity to present their work to the public.

The ZKM exhibition Between Order and Entropy presents the work of the artist John Sanborn, one of the most prominent protagonists of the American video art scene in the 1970s and 1980s.

Karlsruhe as UNESCO City of Media Arts is the emphasis at this year’s international Fair for Classic Modern and Contemporary Art.

art KARLSRUHE starts soon. Come by and see us in Hall 3!

In the exhibition Time is now the artists Nygel Panasco and Célin Jiang show their work at the intersection of performance, digital media arts and transcultural aesthetics.

Feminst, trans and non-binay alliances: How to build a future together?

Presentation of media art within the Reallabor Passagehof.

Starting on 23 May, the Passagehof and Nördliche Karlstraße Living Labs will be used to test new mobility practices, use scenarios and the redistribution of street space. The city invites you to participate.

Festival with Live-Coding and audiovisual performances.

With a view to its exhibition program and the further development of its collection, the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe is strengthening its media art section.

Hacking, programming, lectures, workshops – and of course goulash.

The current exhibition showing at the ZKM Karlsruhe BioMedia: The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior will be presented at the Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France.

Congress for creative companies at the Tollhaus Karlsruhe.

Germany’s most successful hackathon for open cultural data.

The exhibition at ZKM provides an overview of the work of the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.

Dance projections in urban space.

Under the title Seriosität – INFO, the third part of the sequential work can be seen from 22 April 2022 in the shop window Karlsruhe (Schaufenster Karlsruhe).

An interview with artist Ingrid Cuestas, winner of the Open Call Visions of transformations to sustainability.

A ZKM exhibition in cooperation with the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe about the origins of life.

Filmmakers can submit their films until 30 November.

Trinity Twins, Michael Saup’s interactive art work for the PhonoLuxMachine, explores the cultural quality of radioactivity.

With spring we start a new season of showing current media art in Karlsruhe.

The ZKM collaborates with Esch2022 – European Capital of Culture.

Online Symposium – a collaboration between Artists at Risk (AR) and the ZKM Karlsruhe.

The exhibition at the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe shows artistic positions by invited Polish artists and local artists with a biographical connection to Karlsruhe.

Under the motto “PLAY!”, five artworks that were created as part of the award-winning City to City project will be presented to the public at a digital vernissage starting on February 9, 2022.

Artists, initiatives, and institutions from Karlsruhe can apply for funding for media art and international networking projects until April 20.

On Friday, January 28, 2022, students of the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) will realize a pilot project on the market square in Karlsruhe. From about 18:00 experimental light and media art works will be shown.

From January 28-30, 2022, all coding enthusiasts can program collaboratively with international experts at the ZKM Karlsruhe. The weekend will be opened by a variety of exciting live coding performances.

Under the title Seriosität – 24/7, the second part of the sequential work can be seen from 10 January 2022 in the shop window of cc99.

The project by Kilian Kretschmer and Benjamin Breitkopf will start on the 18 December 2021 in the shop window of the ßpace project space. Further venues are planned in the urban space of Karlsruhe up to May 2022.

Who or what defines on what is alive and what is intelligent? The exhibition BioMedia invites visitors to learn about and discuss possible forms of cohabitation between organic and artificial forms of life.

In the exhibition Writing the History of the Future. Signature Works of the Singular ZKM Media Art Collection at the Gwangju Museum of Art in Gwangju, Korea, the ZKM presents key works from its media art collection.

The tenth edition of the international conference of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) ArtsIT will take place from 2 to 3 December in 2021 in Karlsruhe as an online conference. The main topic is the use of artificial intelligence in the field of art and culture.

With SOUNDS OF LIFE there is a fascinating and unique series of events going to enrich Karlsruhes cultural scene for the next years.

Stroboscopic lights suddenly flash on the glass facade of the ZKM building, transforming it into a sparkling light sculpture visible from far way.

The regional Open Call will take place in the context of the first edition of Embrace, an exhibition that will be on show at the Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe from February to April 2022.

bizplay #10 – the 10th edition of the Gamification Congress will take place on 14.10.2021 with the motto KEEP ON PLAYING as Online Congress from Karlsruhe. This year UNESCO City of Media Arts is partner.

The media art festival Seasons of Media Arts – Connected Future presents digital, interactive and virtual art at various locations in the city’s public spaces.

As a presentation platform for media art works, the PhonoLuxMaschine enables a variety of uses. In addition to sound and video installations, the “machine” can also broadcast lectures, films or concerts.

The SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe return from August 18 and let the Karlsruhe Palace illuminate with breathtaking projections.

UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts will present the international BBBank Newcomer Projection Mapping Prize.

Filmmaker Patience Mitumwesiga wins 2021 Underground Film Award.

Congress for Creative Companies.

10th EAI International Conference ArtsIT takes place in the Media Arts City

Unter dem Motto „Dezentral. Divers. Draußen“ bringt die UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Karlsruhe kulturelles Leben „zurück“ in die Stadt. Die Besucher*innen erwartet ein einzigartiges, sparten- und genreübergreifendes Kulturprogramm.

International short film competition.

Visitors to the exhibition are offered a comprehensive overview of the highly topical fields of application of network science.

Real time performances in a virtual theatre.

A room, two performers, three perspectives. How can interaction be created if the public only looks through the digital lense and is not in the performing space?

The City of Karlsruhe supports local and public media art projects that take place in Karlsruhe, as well as projects that enhance international networking, exchanges, and collaboration within the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

Presentation of the artwork Crawlers at the ZKM I Karlsruhe.

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.

Three days full of artistic and playful workshops in which nearly 1000 students, pedagogues and workshop instructors try out and practice themselves on different media levels.

ZKM in the Digital Art Hall of ZDF.

Seven creative people from Karlsruhe have seven minutes to present themselves and their company. Slide presentation, speech, unplugged concert or small show – everything is allowed.

In the context of the international conference on Artificial Empathy and Affective Computing, the ZKM invites to discuss the field of emotion in the machine from the perspective of the arts, the sciences, and computer history in an interdisciplinary way.

Monumental light installations, media projections on facades, artistic interventions, and experimental events will transform Karlsruhe during the Seasons of Media Arts into a stage for innovative, cooperative, and networked media art.

Together with 9 international cities of the Media Arts Cluster of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, the cultural office of the city of Karlsruhe had invited to apply with project proposals. Media artists from all over the world responded to the call.

The Karlsruhe SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE will take place again this year

Humanities biggest challenge of the 21st century is nearing: With this years BEYOND FILM FESTIVAL CLIMATE CHANGE we shed the limelight on the current climate crisis and the impending ecological collapse.

BEYOND Symposium takes place online from July 23–26.

Am 26. Mai 2020 findet die erste virtuelle hallo.digital statt: die Konferenz mit spannenden Sessions zu brandaktuellen Marketing-Themen mit Hands-on Charakter.

The ZKM exhibition CRITICAL ZONES invites us to deal with the cirtical situation of the Earth in various ways and to explore new modes of coexistence between all forms of life.

The international film festival INDEPENDENT DAYS celebrates its anniversary.

The »Open Data Day« is a day of activities where local groups organise their own events. Last year (2019) there were more than 400 events worldwide. 

The art KARLSRUHE trade fair offers its approximately 150,000 visitors a wide collection of exhibits, from the classic modern era of art to contemporary artworks.

The STAATSTHEATER together with the ZKM Karlsruhe invites media artists and theatre producers to attend this symposium in the Opera and Media Arts series.

The light art installation Kaskade was designed by the light artist Rainer Kehres specifically for the façade of the Town Hall to mark Karlsruhe becoming a UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.

This year’s Giga Hertz Award Festival will take place at the ZKM from 23 to 24 November 2019.

Welcome to Dance! In November 2019, Karlsruhe is transformed into a venue for contemporary dance.

Listen up! In 2019, the ZKM will once again be the venue for the ARD Radio Play Days – the most important festival for radio plays and sound art in Germany. 

The seventh ZeitGenuss-Festival is all about musical media art.

The exhibition and educational project Open Codes reflects on the world we live in today: a world that is created and ruled by codes.

The conference of the Karlsruher Forum deals with artificial intelligence.

Since 2006, the former slaughterhouse in the east of Karlsruhe has been transformed into an area of cultural and creative industries.

In einem Zeitraum von fast vierzig Jahren schafft der Medienkünstler Michael Bielicky innovative Arbeiten in den Bereichen Fotografie, Video sowie netzbasierter Installation.

Making digitization in Karlsruhe visible and experienceable for everyone – that is the aim of the »Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung« [Colorful Night of Digitization].

We live in a world that is generated, controlled and regulated by data. Digital codes are the access to this world, they determine how we perceive our environment.

On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the exhibition »respektive Peter Weibel« is showing for the first time an overview of the entire oeuvre of this internationally important media and concept artist.

The exhibition Di bin ezmanekî de | Under the Same Sky brings media artists from Turkey, Europe and Canada to Karlsruhe.

Under the motto »A summer of love and life. Hate comes late – Love comes first«, the façade of Karlsruhe Palace will again be used as a canvas for projection mappings by international light artists.

Within the framework of Seasons of Media Arts, media art installations distributed throughout the entire urban area will be presented decentrally in the urban space, which address the issue of public access to data and thematize the development of the smart city.

Media art meets classical ballet

The BEETHOVEN PASTORAL PROJECT will offer events on five main themes as part of DAS FEST

In an extraordinary compilation, ZKM presents the main works from its globally unique media art collection.

The UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Viborg invites the world to sharpen its pencils and draw for children affected by Covid-19 across the world.