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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

»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.

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.