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10 years of dokka

17. May 2023 — 28. May 2023

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

Media art @ art KARLSRUHE 2023

04. May 2023 — 07. May 2023

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

International Filmfest Karlsruhe

19. April 2023 — 23. April 2023

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.

Iterative space

16. April 2023

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

Algorave at jubez

15. April 2023

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

THIRST – PhonoLuxMaschine

14. April 2023 — 31. May 2023

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.

Anti-Racism awareness weeks

20. March 2023 — 02. April 2023

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

Creative WEIBS – Creative women to the top!

16. March 2023

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

Jonas Denzel. Ballet of the Cities

17. February 2023 — 19. February 2023

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.

The Future of Gestaltung

09. February 2023 — 10. February 2023

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.

Film meets art

14. January 2023

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.

Pop-Up-Store 2022

17. November 2022 — 19. November 2022

The showcase of the cultural and creative industries.

Hallenbau-Festival 2022

28. October 2022 — 30. October 2022

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.

Pride Pictures Queer Film Festival

22. October 2022 — 30. October 2022

Diversity, acceptance and respect for queer lifestyles. Unique festival starts with pre-opening party and panel discussion.

Minimal Carbon Internet

20. October 2022

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

The Sound is the Message

23. September 2022 — 02. October 2022

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

Visual Groove

05. September 2022 — 06. September 2022

Jazz, Groove and Hiphop live at the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE.

SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE 2022 “music4life”

18. August 2022 — 18. September 2022

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

Anniversary edition with media art at the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe

23. July 2022 — 25. September 2022

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.

Media art @ art KARLSRUHE 2022

07. July 2022 — 10. July 2022

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

Come by and see us in Hall 3!

07. July 2022 — 10. July 2022

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

 

Embrace Platform: Panel discussion

02. June 2022

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

Media arts goes public

02. June 2022 — 30. June 2022

Presentation of media art within the Reallabor Passagehof.

“Space for More”: Living Labs with Media Art

23. May 2022 — 31. October 2022

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.

Algorave

21. May 2022

Festival with Live-Coding and audiovisual performances.

20. Gulaschprogrammiernacht

19. May 2022 — 22. May 2022

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

KreativStart 2022

12. May 2022 — 13. May 2022

Congress for creative companies at the Tollhaus Karlsruhe.

Coding da Vinci Kick-Off

07. May 2022 — 08. May 2022

Germany’s most successful hackathon for open cultural data.

Ballet of the City

28. April 2022 — 26. May 2022

Dance projections in urban space.

UNESCO City of Media Arts: Time for new projects!

19. March 2022 — 15. July 2022

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

Institutions and Resistance – Alliances for Art at Risk

11. February 2022 — 12. February 2022

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

Embrace Platform

10. February 2022 — 06. June 2022

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

Go Public!

28. January 2022

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.

on-the-fly: Live-Coding Hacklab

28. January 2022 — 30. January 2022

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.

International Conference on Art and AI

02. December 2021 — 03. December 2021

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.

Sounds of Life

19. November 2021 — 31. May 2022

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

Gamification Congress bizplay #10

14. October 2021

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.

SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE 2021

18. August 2021 — 03. October 2021

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

Summer of Culture in Karlsruhe

01. June 2021 — 17. October 2021

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.

CIE GILLES JOBIN I La Comédie Virtuelle

23. April 2021 — 24. April 2021

Real time performances in a virtual theatre.

Blank Canvas

13. March 2021

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?

Crawlers

06. January 2021 — 27. June 2021

Presentation of the artwork Crawlers at the ZKM I Karlsruhe.

jubezmediale 2020

17. November 2020 — 19. November 2020

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.

7×7 – Seven Creatives in Seven Minutes

05. October 2020

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.

Schloss­lichtspiele Karlsruhe

05. August 2020 — 13. September 2020

The Karlsruhe SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE will take place again this year

BEYOND Symposium – Future Design

23. July 2020 — 25. July 2020

BEYOND Symposium takes place online from July 23–26.

BEYOND Filmfestival – Climate Change

23. July 2020 — 26. July 2020

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.

hallo.digital

26. May 2020 — 27. May 2020

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

INDEPENDENT DAYS – International Film Festival (postponed)

01. April 2020 — 05. April 2020

The international film festival INDEPENDENT DAYS celebrates its anniversary.

Open Data Day

07. March 2020

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. 

art KARLSRUHE – Art from over the last 120 years

13. February 2020 — 16. February 2020

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.

ZKM hosting TANZ Karlsruhe 2019

13. November 2019 — 17. November 2019

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

ARD Radio Play Days 2019

06. November 2019 — 10. November 2019

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. 

ZeitGenuss-Festival

24. October 2019 — 27. October 2019

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

Ausgeschlachtet 2019

Ausgeschlachtet 2019 – Open day at the Creative park Alter Schlachthof

16. October 2019

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

Colorful night of digitization

11. October 2019 — 12. October 2019

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

Schloss­lichtspiele Karlsruhe

08. August 2019 — 15. September 2019

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.

© Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Foto: Andreas Sieß.

La Remise – guest appearance at Badisches Staatstheate

21. July 2019

Media art meets classical ballet

Beethoven Pastoral Project

Beethoven Pastoral Project

19. July 2019 — 21. July 2019

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

What's on

Press Media Art at art KARLSRUHE
Press “Ballet of the Cities” – Media art from Karlsruhe in Timisoara
News SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE – The Karlsruhe Light Festival fascinated a quarter of a million people!
News 100 international cities attended the XIV Annual Conference of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in Brazil
News “BioMedia” will be presented by the cities of Karlsruhe and Enghien-les-Bains in Brazil
Press Dandelions, Advertising Sign, and an X-Ray Imaging Apparatus: The Media Arts City Presents Itself at Art KARLSRUHE 22
News XIV Annual Conference of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in Santos
Press Media Art at art KARLSRUHE
Press UNESCO City of Media Arts: Time for new projects!
News Karlsruhe Media Artist represented at the OCUPA festival
News City to City wins international award
Press Summer of Culture in Karlsruhe: “Decentral.Diverse.Outside”
Press The Seasons of Media Arts Festival has been extended

Werke

Les Pissenlits, 1990
29. June 2022

Time is Now, 2022
11. April 2022

Algorave
11. April 2022