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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Germany’s most successful hackathon for open cultural data.

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

The ZKM collaborates with Esch2022 – European Capital of Culture.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Presentation of the artwork Crawlers at the ZKM I Karlsruhe.

ZKM in the Digital Art Hall of ZDF.

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.

The Karlsruhe SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE will take place again this year

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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