Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design

Analyse. Create. Debate. Design: Thanks to a unique teaching, research and exhibition concept, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) enables its students to think beyond their own discipline, to understand contexts and to work out complex topics in their project studies.

With communication design, product design, media art, exhibition design and scenography as well as art studies, media theory and media philosophy, the HfG thus presents itself as an art academy of a special type that has increasingly developed in Europe, the USA and Japan since the early 1990s.

Housed in a striking former industrial building, the HfG with its atriums, light bridges and adjoining rooms not only offers excellent study conditions, but also unique event and exhibition opportunities for the national art, design and performance scene.

Adress

Lorenzstraße 15
76135 Karlsruhe

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Calendar

Kino im Blauen Salon – winter semester 2025/26

10. October 2025 — 07. March 2026

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

Rundgang 2025 – KIOSK / Annual Summer Exhibition

24. July 2025 — 27. July 2025

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

HfG Open Air Cinema 2025

23. May 2025 — 01. June 2025

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

Workshop Voyeur

07. February 2025

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).

25 Grad

13. February 2025 — 23. February 2025

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