A visualization of a network is shown. The edges of the network are colored in different colors.

Sat, 01.05.2021
– Sun, 16.01.2022
Crypto art on the LED wall of the ZKM Cube

CryptoArt

It's Not About Money

Wed, 07.04.2021
– Sun, 06.06.2021
The ZKM in the Digital Art Hall of ZDF

Computable – Incomputable

ZKM in the Digital Art Hall of ZDF

Fri, 30.10.2020
– Thu, 30.09.2021
Keyvisual Crawlers in green and white

CRAWLERS

Virtual Presentation

Wed, 06.01.2021
– Sun, 27.06.2021
Students of HfM

The Morning Line plays

works by Students of the Karlsruhe University of Music

Sat, 01.05.2021
– Wed, 30.06.2021
Installation view of Chiharu Shiota's »Connected to Life«. On view are several hospital bed frames hanging from the ceiling. Red liquid flows through transparent tubes on the beds.

Chiharu Shiota. Connected to Life

Installation at the ZKM Foyer

Wed, 17.03.2021
– Sun, 11.07.2021
Graphic for the exhibition »Critical Zones« at the ZKM Karlsruhe. In orange you can read »Critical Zones«, above a beige abstract map.

Critical Zones

Observatories for Earthly Politics

Sat, 23.05.2020
– Sun, 08.08.2021

COVID-19 Closure

Due to the increased incidence rate of COVID-19, the ZKM will be closed from Tuesday 06.04.21. Please check our website for updates and announcements.

Digital events, online workshops and livestreams will be continued. Click here for our digital offers.

ZKM from Home

A large tangle of cables can be seen, many ropes are interwoven. In the lower edge of the picture it says »zkm digital – get connected!«

Current events

A screen shot of a digital artwork with stone and plant motifs.
Performative book presentation »Swamps and the New imagination. On the Future of Cohabitation in Art, Architecture and Philosophy«
Terrestrial University: Swamps and the New Imagination

Thu, 13.05.2021, 7 pm

You can see a brown decorated vase in the center and right behind it a person playing a cello
Celebrating Alvin Lucier’s 90th Birthday
The Poet of Experimental Music

Fri, 14.05.2021, 8 pm

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The exhibitions are closed today.

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NEWS FROM ZKM

Screenshot from the homepage of the exhibition "We=Link: Sideways" at the Chronus Art Center (CAC) Shanghai. A black background with desktop folders and the title in neon colours.
»WE=LINK: SIDEWAYS«
The online exhibition by the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai features works from three decades of net art.
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ZKM international

ZKM puts on countless touring exhibitions all over the world. For many years, they have been organized in close collaboration with the Goethe-Institute. Innovative exhibition formats have been developed, generating enthusiasm worldwide. 

More about our international exhibitions

 

Visitor of the opening of the exhibition series »Poetic Expansions«
Education & Mediation
Museum communication is interdisciplinary, cross-media and participatory!
program
  • Someone is painting with a stylus, a special pen for displays, on an iPad.
    Formats
    Our formats, which return regularly, appeal to a wide range of interests.
  • Microcontroller Calliope Mini
    Offers
    A day at ZKM means immersion in an entire cosmos of analogue and digital worlds.

ZKM among the top 5 world museums!

 

Museum of Modern Art, New York -- Biennale di Venezia -- Centre Pompidou, Paris -- ZKM -- Karlsruhe...

... in the current ranking of the world's largest art database »ArtFacts.net«, ZKM achieved fourth place among the best exhibition houses. Of course, we are very happy about that!

More about the ranking

Exhibition view "Light Art from Artificial Light"

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