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Ping-Poema Festival

02. May 2025 — 03. May 2025

The festival brings together poetry, sound, and performance in a diverse program centered around the work of Lenora de Barros at the Badischer Kunstverein.

INDEPENDENT DAYS | 24th International Film Festival

09. April 2025 — 13. April 2025

The international film festival presents 128 films from 32 countries.

Cinéfête at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe: French youth film festival

20. June 2024 — 26. June 2024

The long-established school festival brings the diversity of French cinema to life and takes students on an inspiring journey through compelling stories and cultural insights.

next-generation X

05. June 2024 — 08. June 2024

As Europe’s largest meet-up of university studios for electronic music, the international ZKM Festival offers up-and-coming composers a platform to present their new musical developments.

11th edition of the dokKa festival

08. May 2024 — 12. May 2024

This year’s programme offers topics ranging from futuristic visions to a personal examination of faith and identity.

INDEPENDENT DAYS

10. April 2024 — 14. April 2024

The international film festival shows independent film productions from all over the world.

21. Silent film festival Karlsruhe

07. February 2024 — 10. February 2024

The Kinemathek and Co. show a wide range of outstanding silent films.

Short Film Day 2023

19. December 2023 — 21. December 2023

To mark the shortest day of the year, different short film days will be hosted in Karlsruhe for two days. The focus is on animated short films and films on the subject of In der Schwebe.

Giga-Hertz-Festival for Electronic Music and Sound Art 2023

06. December 2023 — 10. December 2023

As part of the annual festival, the main prize is awarded at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. This year’s winner is the US-American Laurie Spiegel.

PANTOPIA MUSIC Festival

09. November 2023 — 11. November 2023

Experience transtraditional music in the most diverse forms of mediation at the Badisches Staatstheater

ZeitGenuss – The festival for music of our time

12. October 2023 — 15. October 2023

Contemporary music resounds over the stages of the city for the 10th anniversary edition.

SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Light Festival

16. August 2023 — 17. September 2023

The façade of Karlsruhe Palace will once again become a canvas for impressive projection mappings by international media artists.

10 years of dokKa

17. May 2023 — 28. May 2023

The Karlsruhe Documentary Festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year and is once again presenting diverse documentaries and audio documentaries.

International Filmfest Karlsruhe

19. April 2023 — 23. April 2023

Start of ticket sales. A total of 123 features from 36 countries will be screened at the SCHAUBURG cinema during the the five days of the festival.

Algorave at jubez

15. April 2023

This year’s Live Coding Edition will feature both local and international artists.

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.

Pride Pictures Queer Film Festival

22. October 2022 — 30. October 2022

Diversity, acceptance and respect for queer lifestyles. Unique festival starts with pre-opening party and panel discussion.

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.

PhonoLuxMaschine

11. September 2021 — 30. November 2021

As a presentation platform for media art works, the PhonoLuxMaschine enables a variety of uses. In addition to sound and video installations, the “machine” can also broadcast lectures, films or concerts.

Summer of Culture in Karlsruhe

01. June 2021 — 17. October 2021

Unter dem Motto „Dezentral. Divers. Draußen“ bringt die UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Karlsruhe kulturelles Leben „zurück“ in die Stadt. Die Besucher*innen erwartet ein einzigartiges, sparten- und genreübergreifendes Kulturprogramm.

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.

ZeitGenuss-Festival

24. October 2019 — 27. October 2019

The seventh ZeitGenuss-Festival is all about musical media art.

Seasons of media arts 2019

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.

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