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.
Media Art in public spaces at the plenary assembly of the World Council of Churches
18. August 2022
— 18. September 2022
The City of Karlsruhe’s Department of Cultural Affairs of and the ZKM | Karlsruhe is presenting six media artworks in the city center.
John Sanborn. Between Order and Entropy
08. July 2022
— 30. October 2022
The ZKM exhibition Between Order and Entropy presents the work of the artist John Sanborn, who became one of the most prominent protagonists of the American video art scene in the 1970s and 1980s.
20. Gulaschprogrammiernacht
19. May 2022
— 22. May 2022
Hacking, programming, lectures, workshops – and of course goulash.
“BioMedia” at the Centre des Arts in Enghien-les-Bains
13. May 2022
— 10. July 2022
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 Artwork as a Living System
07. May 2022
— 31. July 2022
The exhibition at ZKM provides an overview of the work of the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau.
Coding da Vinci Kick-Off
07. May 2022
— 08. May 2022
Germany’s most successful hackathon for open cultural data.
The Beauty of Early Life
26. March 2022
— 24. July 2022
A ZKM exhibition in cooperation with the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe about the origins of life.
Hacking Identity – Dancing Diversity
27. February 2022
— 15. May 2022
The ZKM collaborates with Esch2022 – European Capital of Culture.
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.
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.
BioMedia
18. December 2021
— 28. August 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.
The collection of the ZKM as a guest of the Gwangju Museum of Art
17. December 2021
— 03. April 2022
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.
Funkelnder Kubus
10. November 2021
— 30. January 2022
Stroboscopic lights suddenly flash on the glass facade of the ZKM building, transforming it into a sparkling light sculpture visible from far way.
Seasons of Media Arts – Connected Future
17. September 2021
— 17. October 2021
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.
Artificial Empathy – International Conference
25. September 2020
— 27. September 2020
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.
Open Data Day
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.
Symposium Opera and Media Arts
24. January 2020
— 25. January 2020
The STAATSTHEATER together with the ZKM Karlsruhe invites media artists and theatre producers to attend this symposium in the Opera and Media Arts series.
Giga Hertz Award 2019
23. November 2019
— 24. November 2019
This year’s Giga Hertz Award Festival will take place at the ZKM from 23 to 24 November 2019.
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.
Open Codes. We are Data in Bilbao
23. October 2019
— 26. January 2020
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 Rule of Algorithms
The conference of the Karlsruher Forum deals with artificial intelligence.
Michael Bielicky Perpetuum mobile
13. October 2019
— 08. March 2020
In einem Zeitraum von fast vierzig Jahren schafft der Medienkünstler Michael Bielicky innovative Arbeiten in den Bereichen Fotografie, Video sowie netzbasierter Installation.
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].
Open Codes in Berlin
02. October 2019
— 17. October 2019
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.
respektive Peter Weibel
28. September 2019
— 08. March 2020
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.
Critical Zones
23. May 2020
— 09. January 2022
The exhibition CRITICAL ZONES invites us to deal with the critical situation of the Earth in various ways and to explore new modes of coexistence between all forms of life.
CIE GILLES JOBIN La Comédie Virtuelle
23. April 2021
— 24. April 2021
Real time performances in a virtual theatre.
Seasons of Media Arts 2020
11. September 2020
— 31. March 2021
Monumental light installations, media projections on building facades and streets, artistic interventions, and experimental events will transform Karlsruhe during the Seasons of Media Arts into a stage for innovative, cooperative, and networked media art.
BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns
01. May 2021
— 03. April 2022
Visitors to the exhibition are offered a comprehensive overview of the highly topical fields of application of network science.
Crawlers
06. January 2021
— 27. June 2021
Presentation of the artwork CRAWLERS at ZKM I Karlsruhe.
Computable – Incomputable
30. October 2020
— 30. September 2021
In the ZDF Digital Art Hall visitors move through the virtual ZKM where they can discover computer-generated artworks.
Writing the History of the Future
23. February 2019
— 09. January 2022
KM presents the main works from its globally unique media art collection.