Current Exhibitions

Here, you will find an overview of our current and upcoming exhibitions as well as the ZKM's international presentations. 

For past exhibitions please visit our exhibition archive.

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
Atrium 1+2, 2nd floor
Cost: Museum Admission
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
Atrium 1+2, 2nd floor
Cost: Museum Admission
Graphic for the exhibition »Critical Zones« at the ZKM Karlsruhe. In orange you can read »Critical Zones«, above a beige abstract map.
Critical Zones
Sat, 23.05.2020 – Sun, 08.08.2021
Atrium 1+2, ground floor + 1st floor
Cost: Museum Admission
Masterclass2020
[MASTERCLASS]
ab 08.08.2020
Online
Free entry
A huge metal mill wheel stands in an exhibition room. At the mill wheel there are tube screens on which videos of water are played.
Writing the History of the Future
23.02.2019 – 28.03.2021
Atrium 8+9
Cost: Museum Admission
A comic figure with blue trousers, a white shirt and pink hair runs into a turquoise coloured picture.
zkm_gameplay. the next level
Sat, 29.09.2018 – Sun, 30.01.2022
Atrium 1+2, 2nd floor
Cost: Museum admission

Exhibitions worldwide

Three cypresses are suspended in polygonal constructions in the air in the foyer of EnBW Karlsruhe.
Eau de Karlsruhe – Cyprès
Fri, 24.07.2020 – Thu, 31.12.2020
EnBW ; Foyer
Free entry
The text »Seasons of Media Arts« in front of a yellow ellipse and a grey rectangle.
Seasons of Media Arts 2020
from Fri, 11.09.2020
City Center of Karlsruhe
Free entry
A stooped figure with a screen in front of his face and a blue mask carries a burning house on his shoulders. Stars are woven into the edge of the blue robe and at waist level.
Peter Weibel. (Post-)Europa?
Sat, 03.10.2020 – Sun, 31.01.2021
Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg
Cost: 6€/ 4€
Werk - Neo Geo City
Computable – Incomputable
Fri, 30.10.2020 – Thu, 30.09.2021
Online
Free entry

Exhibition preview

A rendered graphic in purple shades, it shows a shady rock landscape inside a building.
Drifting, Browsing, Cruising
Fri, 27.11.2020 – Thu, 03.12.2020
Museum Balcony
Free entry
A visualization of a network is shown. The edges of the network are colored in different colors.
BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns
Sat, 27.02.2021 – Sun, 20.06.2021
Atrium 1+2, 2nd floor
Cost: Museum Admission

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The picture shows the site plan of the ZKM

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From painting, sculpture, video art, performance and computer-based works to music – our collection and archives provide you a wide-ranging view of the art and history of the 20th and 21st century!

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