ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe is a unique cultural institution worldwide, because it is a place that expands the original tasks of the museum.

It is a house of all media and genres, a house of both spatial arts such as painting, photography and sculpture and time-based arts such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater and performance. ZKM was founded in 1989 with the mission of continuing the classical arts into the digital age. This is why it is sometimes called the “electronic or digital Bauhaus” – an expression that is traced back to the founding director Heinrich Klotz.

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Lorenzstraße 19
76135 Karlsruhe

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Calendar

The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection

05. April 2025 — 20. September 2025

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.

Open House Day at Hallenbau 2025

02. February 2025

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.

Shifting Paradigms

05. December 2024 — 06. December 2024

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.

Symposium After Memory

23. October 2024 — 26. October 2024

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

Antennae: Frequencies from the Archive

18. July 2024 — 24. November 2024

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