Renaissance 3.0
24. March 2023
— 07. January 2024
»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.
the intelligent.museum
08. February 2023
— 04. June 2023
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.
Analivia Cordeiro. From Body to Code
28. January 2023
— 23. April 2023
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.
Open Call: Sonic Spaces 2023
09. January 2023
— 29. January 2023
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.
ole scheeren: spaces of life
10. December 2022
— 04. June 2023
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.
Marijke van Warmerdam. Then, now, and then
29. October 2022
— 05. February 2023
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.
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.
Walter Giers. Electronic Art
14. October 2022
— 16. April 2023
The ZKM exhibition presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of all the phases in the oeuvre of this pioneer of electronic art.
Antiwarcoalition.art as a guest at ZKM
When Language Is Lost: Possibilities of Art in the Face of War.
Soun-Gui Kim. Lazy Clouds
09. September 2022
— 05. February 2023
The ZKM exhibition is the first solo exhibition in Germany of Korean-French artist Soun-Gui Kim.
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 is here
18. August 2022
— 18. September 2022
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.
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, 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.
SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE 2021
18. August 2021
— 03. October 2021
The SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe return from August 18 and let the Karlsruhe Palace illuminate with breathtaking projections.
BBBank Newcomer Projection Mapping Prize 2021
01. August 2021
— 31. August 2021
UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts will present the international BBBank Newcomer Projection Mapping Prize.
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.
CIE GILLES JOBIN I La Comédie Virtuelle
23. April 2021
— 24. April 2021
Real time performances in a virtual theatre.
Crawlers
06. January 2021
— 27. June 2021
Presentation of the artwork Crawlers at the ZKM I Karlsruhe.
Computable – Incomputable
30. October 2020
— 30. September 2021
ZKM in the Digital Art Hall of ZDF.
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.
Seasons of Media Arts 2020
11. September 2020
— 31. March 2021
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.
Critical Zones
23. May 2020
— 09. January 2022
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.
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.
Seasons of Media Arts 2019 – City of Participative Visions
08. August 2019
— 15. September 2019
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.
Writing the History of the Future
23. February 2019
— 09. January 2022
In an extraordinary compilation, ZKM presents the main works from its globally unique media art collection.