Events

With exhibition openings, concerts, readings, film screenings, conferences, panel discussions and much more, the ZKM offers not only exciting exhibitions but also a variety of different events.


Past events can be found in the event archive.

You can see a green meadow on which there are several raised seats in the middle of trees.
Hochsitzcafé
April–October 2024
Two visitors in the exhibition »zkm_gameplay. the next level«
It’s a match – Art Speed Dating in »Mack at ZKM«
Sat, April 20, 2024 3 pm – 5.30 pm CEST, Meet-Up
Atrium 1+2, 2nd floor
Cost: 12 € / 10 € ermäßigt
Language: German
Person walks in an alleged spaceship and stands upside down
How film promotes thinking. A dialog with images in motion
Wed, April 24, 2024 6 pm CEST, Lecture
Media Theater
Free entry
Language: German
Black and white photo of a seated man
On the Benefits of Art – with Writer and Cultural Critic Boris Buden
Thu, May 02, 2024 7 pm – 9 pm CEST, Talk
Media Lounge
Free entry
Languages: German, English
The picture shows an abstract structure with a vacuum cleaner head in the middle and colorful shapes all around.
Opening: (A)I Tell You, You Tell Me. Three Encounters for Humans/Machines
Fri, May 03, 2024 – Sat, May 04, 2024, Opening
Foyer, Atrium 1+2, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG); Atrium 3
Free entry
You can see a young woman in front of a DJ booth, she has black hair and a braid and is wrapped in abstract shapes and colors by the lights in the room and a projection behind her.
Portrait XO – WIRE
Fri, May 03, 2024 7.40 pm CEST, Performance
Media Theater
Pianist Maki Namekawa at the grand piano.
Maki Namekawa plays Keith Jarrett's »The Köln Concert«
Sat, May 04, 2024 8 pm CEST, Concert
Atrium 8
Cost: Admission 10 € / 7 € reduced
Two visitors in the exhibition »zkm_gameplay. the next level«
It’s a match – Art Speed Dating in »Mack at ZKM«
Sat, May 11, 2024 3 pm – 5.30 pm CEST, Meet-Up
Atrium 1+2, 2nd floor
Cost: 12 € / 10 € ermäßigt
Language: German
Children's drawing of religious symbols
archEtrans e.V. as a guest at ZKM: Provocation to Courage - Children see the world
Fri, May 17, 2024 – Sun, May 26, 2024
Foyer
Free entry
Young musicians on stage at the ZKM Kubus
next_generation X
Wed, June 05, 2024 – Sat, June 08, 2024, Festival
Cube, Media Theater
Free entry
the forecourt in front of the ZKM can be seen, with clothes hanging on many clothes rails and books lying on tables. People are looking at the things.
Clothes and book bazaar
Thu, June 13, 2024 5 pm CEST
Isle Hub on the Forecourt
A black woman with a white mask on her face. The mask appears to be being scanned by a computer.
»Coded Bias« by Shalini Kantayya
Tue, June 18, 2024 7 pm CEST, Film Screening
Kinemathek Karlsruhe
The picture shows a panel discussion in front of the screen.
No Time to Wait 8
Wed, September 11, 2024 – Fri, September 13, 2024, Conference
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Free entry
Language: English
Hands can be seen in front of a rainbow flag.
Diversity Ball Night 2024 – Dance of diversity
Sat, October 05, 2024 9 pm CEST
ZKM | Center for Art and Media

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