Events

Karlsruhe's cultural landscape is characterized by numerous festivals, exhibitions and events in the field of media art.

You will find an overview of upcoming media art events in Karlsruhe that illustrate the city's diversity and creativity here.

Upcoming Events

Writing the History of the Future
23. Feb 2019 - 28. Mar 2021
The exhibition »Writing the History of the Future« focuses on the major topics the ZKM has dealt with over the past 30 years: artistic and social change against the background of digitization.
Artificial Empathy – International Conference (postponed)
27. Mar 2020 - 29. Mar 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.
INDEPENDENT DAYS – International Film Festival (postponed)
01. Apr 2020 - 05. Apr 2020
The international film festival INDEPENDENT DAYS celebrates its anniversary. 162 films from 40 countries on all five continents make Karlsruhe a showcase for independent filmmaking worldwide.
The Art and Culture Festival »SCHWEIN GEHABT 2020«
16. May 2020 - 17. May 2020
As in previous years, the winners of a light art competition get to illuminate Karlsruhe’s former abattoir compound with their works of art. Light objects, light and media art installations and illuminated sculptures invite visitors to take in and engage with them.
BEYOND Festival – Climate Change
20. Jul 2020 - 26. Jul 2020
The climate crisis is a challenge to the global civilization of today and thus also a task and challenge for art. That's why this year's BEYOND-Festival with symposium, art exhibition and film festival will take place with the title »Future Design Special: Climate Change«.
Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe
05. Aug 2020 - 13. Sep 2020
The SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE 2020 will take place from August 5 to September 13, 2020. Once again, the facade of Karlsruhe Palace will be illuminated by breathtaking projections and become the largest digital work of art in Europe.
jubezmediale 2020
17. Nov 2020 - 19. Nov 2020
The jubezmediale, that is 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.

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Events

Karlsruhe's cultural landscape is characterized by numerous festivals, exhibitions and events in the field of media art.

You will find an overview of upcoming media art events in Karlsruhe that illustrate the city's diversity and creativity here.

Upcoming Events

Writing the History of the Future

Artificial Empathy – International Conference (postponed)

INDEPENDENT DAYS – International Film Festival (postponed)

The Art and Culture Festival »SCHWEIN GEHABT 2020«

BEYOND Festival – Climate Change

Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe

jubezmediale 2020

Past Events

Michael Bielicky Perpetuum mobile

respektive Peter Weibel

Open Data Day

Light Art Installation Kaskade

art KARLSRUHE – Art from over the last 120 years

»Open Codes. We are Data« in Bilbao

Symposium Opera and Media Arts

Giga Hertz Award 2019

ZKM hosting TANZ Karlsruhe 2019

ARD Radio Play Days 2019

ZeitGenuss-Festival

»Open Codes« in Berlin

The Rule of Algorithms

Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung

Ausgeschlachtet 2019 - Open day at the Creative park Alter Schlachthof

Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe

Seasons of Media Arts

Di bin ezmanekî de | Under the Same Sky

La Remise - guest appearance at Badisches Staatstheater

Beethoven Pastoral Project

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