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.

Current Events

Seasons of Media Arts – Connected Future
17. Sep 2021 - 17. Oct 2021
The media art festival “Seasons of Media Arts – Connected Future” presents art at various locations in the city’s public spaces. Light installations, projections on the facades of buildings, in shop windows, sound installations, and augmented reality applications will turn Karlsruhe’s urban environment into a stage for creative and networked media art.
Writing the History of the Future
23. Feb 2019 - 09. Jan 2022
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.
Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics
23. May 2020 - 09. Jan 2022
For a long time the reactions of Earth to our human actions remained unnoticed, but in recent times with the protest movement Fridays for Future climate crisis has moved into public consciousness. The thought exhibition »CRITICAL ZONES« invites us to deal with the CRITICAL situation of the Earth.
Computable – Incomputable
30. Oct 2020 - 30. Sep 2021
ZKM in the Digital Art Hall of ZDF In the ZDF Digital Art Hall visitors move through the virtual ZKM where they can discover computer-generated artworks.
BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns
01. May 2021 - 16. Jan 2022
The exhibition »BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns« introduces the work of the physicist and network scientist Albert-László Barabási and his research laboratory. The focus of the exhibition is the development of network visualization over the past 20 years, which can be seen in the projects of BarabásiLab.
Summer of Culture in Karlsruhe with media art, theatre, music, film and performance
01. Jun 2021 - 30. Sep 2021
Under the motto Decentral. Diverse. Outside, the UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Karlsruhe brings cultural life with all its facets “back” into the city. Visitors can expect a unique, cross-disciplinary and cross-genre cultural program. In the special edition "Connected Future" of the media art festival "Seasons of Media Arts", local and international artists will be given the opportunity to show their works in the urban space from September 17, 2021. The new Light Festival expands the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE with new venues.
SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE 2021
18. Aug 2021 - 03. Oct 2021
The SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe return from August 18 and let the Karlsruhe Palace illuminate with breathtaking projections. After their departure into virtual space with the digital edition 2020, the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe 2021 will return to the baroque facade of Karlsruhe Palace from August 18 to October 3.
Gamification Congress at Tollhaus and also online
14. Oct 2021
bizplay #10 - the 10th edition of the Gamification Congress will take place on 14.10.2021 with the motto KEEP ON PLAYING as OnlineCongress from Karlsruhe. This year UNESCO City of Media Arts is partner.

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.

Seasons of Media Arts – Connected Future

Writing the History of the Future

Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics

Computable – Incomputable

BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns

Summer of Culture in Karlsruhe with media art, theatre, music, film and performance

SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE 2021

Gamification Congress at Tollhaus and also online

2021

BBBank Newcomer Projection Mapping Prize 2021

Media Arts Open Call: Human Responsibility

Jury Decision Funding Program Media Arts 2021

Open Call for Media Artists

Jury decision Underground Film Award 2021

Call for Artists: City to City 2021 PLAY!

Crawlers

Interactivity, Virtualization & Artificial Intelligence

KreativStart

UNESCO City of Media Arts - Call for Submissions: Funding Program for Media Arts

UNDERGROUND FILM AWARD

The Art and Culture Festival »SCHWEIN GEHABT 2021«

CIE GILLES JOBIN La Comédie Virtuelle

BLANK CANVAS I a digital experience.

Images of hope: International drawing competition for children affected by Covid 19

International Online Collaboration Project: City to City: Human Responsibility

2020

Seasons of Media Arts 2020

Opening virtual exhibition - City to City: Human Responsibility

jubezmediale 2020

7x7 – Seven Creatives in Seven Minutes

Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe

Stadtleuchten – Light Art Festival Karlsruhe

BEYOND Filmfestival – Climate Change

BEYOND Symposium – FUTURE DESIGN

INDEPENDENT DAYS – International Film Festival (postponed)

respektive Peter Weibel

Michael Bielicky Perpetuum mobile

Open Data Day

art KARLSRUHE – Art from over the last 120 years

Light Art Installation Kaskade

»Open Codes. We are Data« in Bilbao

Symposium Opera and Media Arts

2019

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