The text »Seasons of Media Arts« in front of a yellow ellipse and a grey rectangle.

Seasons of Media Arts

The Festival of Media Art

In the Karlsruhe city area
You can see two standing drums, each of which shows a picture on the round surface. On the left an ancient married couple and on the right the portrait of a woman.

Stephan von Huene

What’s wrong with Art?

Sat, 26.09.2020
– Sun, 10.01.2021
Two young women in the exhibition space. One is standing on the left wall and the other is looking at the right wall in showcases. A screen is stretched between them, on which a film clip with people can be seen.

Ed and Urs Kiënder

Roll-Objects. From Space-Pictures to Rolling Spaces

Sat, 26.09.2020
– Sun, 10.01.2021
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
Masterclass2020

[MASTERCLASS]

Young art online: video, photography and sound art

Virtual exhibition from August 8, 2020

We are open again!

Since July 24, 2020, the ZKM has reopened most of its exhibitions for you. In order to make your visit to the museum an untroubled pleasure, we have developed distance and hygiene guidelines that enable us all to visit the museum in a responsible manner.

Guidelines for your visit to the ZKM

The woods

Current events

Werk - H.O.R.T.U.S.
Regulars' Table Karlsruhe
#digiTALK – Sustainable Acting in the Digital World

Thu, 22.10.2020, 7 pm CEST

A smoking person is sitting in a room with stone walls. She is wearing a wig from the 18th century, is heavily made up and sits at a table with a long candle burning on it. Around the table are dolls.
Film
INDEPENDENT DAYS Filmfestspiele: Short Interventions

Thu, 22.10.2020, 7 pm CEST

The background is foggy, in the foreground is a young woman with long hair, wearing a Venetian-style mask.
Film
INDEPENDENT DAYS Filmfestspiele: Eclipsed

Thu, 22.10.2020, 9 pm CEST

You can see the facade of the Karlsruhe Castle over which an animated network of pipes extends.
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BBBank Newcomer Award in Projection Mapping 2021

For the first time, the ZKM and KME Karlsruhe Marketing und Event GmbH will award the international »BBBank Newcomer Prize in Projection Mapping« as part of SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe 2021. Applications are accepted until November 15, 2020.

Three cypresses are suspended in polygonal constructions in the air in the foyer of EnBW Karlsruhe.
»Critical Zones« as guest at the EnBW
Eau de Karlsruhe – Cyprès

Until December 2020, the installation »Eau de Karlsruhe – Cyprès« by the artist Fabien Léaustic can be visited in the foyer of EnBW Karlsruhe. On the occasion of the exhibition »Critical Zones« the »ecosystem« made of real cypresses and electric light deals with the symbiotic relationship between natural and artificial elements.

All News at a Glance

Today's Opening Hours

The exhibitions are open from 10 am–6 pm today!

General Opening Hours

ZKM | Karlsruhe

Lorenzstraße 19
76135 Karlsruhe
Germany

Travelling to the ZKM

 

View of the exhibition »Datumsoria«
Our digital formats
The ZKM is at home in the digital world. With our digital formats, you can also participate in our scientific research and cultural projects from home.
Our Mission Statement

ZKM international

The 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.

Dear visitors, from now on we are allowed to offer limited analog mediation formats with distance and hygiene guidelines.

Please visit our digital offers, which you can find on the website and Instagram @zkm_muskom. We look forward to seeing you!

Collection & Archives

The collection and the archives contain works and documents from the 20th and 21st century.

The special feature of the ZKM's collection activities is its focus on the electronic arts. The video art collection is one of the largest in Europe and the computer art collection is the largest of its kind in the world. In addition, there is an extensive collection of works of electronic music.

overview collection & archives

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«, the 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"

Impressions from the ZKM!

Open Gallery
  • A large glass building - the cube of the ZKM Karlsruhe - is surrounded by fog. The photo was taken at night.
  • A man looking through 3-D glasses
  • A projected dandelion
  • In plaster casted masks hang on mirrors
  • Two women stand in front of a screen in the exhibition »Open Codes. The World as a Field of Data«
  • Installation view »The World as a Field of Data«
  • Exhibition view »Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media« 
  • Exhibition view »Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media« 
  • Exhibition view »Through the Soundproof Curtain. The Polish Radio Experimental Studio« 
  • Front view of The Democracy Machine! In the middle of a wall is a television set installed around it, three colorful color tubes are arranged like sunbeams. In front of it are two podiums with buttons.
  • Exhibition view »Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds«
  • Performance with many people that are standing in a row and build a wave using their arms.
  • Visitors at the opening of the exhibition »Frei Otto. Thinking by modelling«
  • Visitors at the opening of the exhibition »Frei Otto. Thinking by modelling«
  • Visitors at the opening of the exhibition »Frei Otto. Thinking by modelling«
  • Prints of satellite images of oil extraction areas on aluminum panels
  • Bruno Latour explains a work of the exhibition »Reset Modernity!«
  • An aquarium in the exhibition »Reset Modernity!«
  • View of the exhibition »Kunst in Europa 1945–1968«.
  • Visitors in the exhibition »Art in Europe 1945-1968«
  • The picture shows a camera, which is directed by a hollow, blue triangle.
  • Exhibition view »Reinhard Döhl: Everything is Possible. Anything Goes.«
  • Visitor to the exhibition »Helmut Heißenbüttel: writing collecting broadcasting«
  • Visitors of the opening of the exhibition series »Poetic Expansions«

Impressions from the ZKM!

Overview
  • A large glass building - the cube of the ZKM Karlsruhe - is surrounded by fog. The photo was taken at night.
  • A man looking through 3-D glasses
  • A projected dandelion
  • In plaster casted masks hang on mirrors
  • Two women stand in front of a screen in the exhibition »Open Codes. The World as a Field of Data«
  • Installation view »The World as a Field of Data«
  • Exhibition view »Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media« 
  • Exhibition view »Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media« 
  • Exhibition view »Through the Soundproof Curtain. The Polish Radio Experimental Studio« 
  • Front view of The Democracy Machine! In the middle of a wall is a television set installed around it, three colorful color tubes are arranged like sunbeams. In front of it are two podiums with buttons.
  • Exhibition view »Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds«
  • Performance with many people that are standing in a row and build a wave using their arms.
  • Visitors at the opening of the exhibition »Frei Otto. Thinking by modelling«
  • Visitors at the opening of the exhibition »Frei Otto. Thinking by modelling«
  • Visitors at the opening of the exhibition »Frei Otto. Thinking by modelling«
  • Prints of satellite images of oil extraction areas on aluminum panels
  • Bruno Latour explains a work of the exhibition »Reset Modernity!«
  • An aquarium in the exhibition »Reset Modernity!«
  • View of the exhibition »Kunst in Europa 1945–1968«.
  • Visitors in the exhibition »Art in Europe 1945-1968«
  • The picture shows a camera, which is directed by a hollow, blue triangle.
  • Exhibition view »Reinhard Döhl: Everything is Possible. Anything Goes.«
  • Visitor to the exhibition »Helmut Heißenbüttel: writing collecting broadcasting«
  • Visitors of the opening of the exhibition series »Poetic Expansions«

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