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

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.

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

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

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.

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 international film festival presents 128 films from 32 countries.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.