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.

abstract art
CryptoArt
Wed, 07.04.2021 – Sun, 06.06.2021
Kubus: Screen
Free entry
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
Wed, 17.03.2021 – Sun, 11.07.2021
Foyer
The picture shows a person playing music in front of a mixer.
The Morning Line plays
Mon, 01.03.2021 – Fri, 30.04.2021
Forecourt
Keyvisual Crawlers in green and white
CRAWLERS
Wed, 06.01.2021 – Sun, 27.06.2021
Museum Balcony, Online
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
Graphic for the virtual exhibition »Critical Zones« at the ZKM Karlsruhe.
Critical Zones – Virtual Exhibition
Online
Free entry
Poster »Writing the History of the Future«
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, 09.01.2022
Atrium 1+2, 2nd floor
Cost: Museum admission

Exhibitions worldwide

Werk - Neo Geo City
Computable – Incomputable
Fri, 30.10.2020 – Thu, 30.09.2021
Online
Free entry
Banner of the exhibition "We=Link: Sideways" at the Chronus Art Center CAC) Shanghai. A black background with the title in neon green.
We=Link: Sideways
Sat, 21.11.2020 – Sun, 23.05.2021
Online
Free entry
Lettering »Spatial Affairs« in spatial black lettering, next to an excerpt from a work by Alicja Kwade: atwo-dimensional image of a rock.
Spatial Affairs
Thu, 29.04.2021 – Sun, 27.06.2021
Ludwig Múzeum Budapest

Exhibition preview

A visualization of a network is shown. The edges of the network are colored in different colors.
BarabásiLab. Hidden Patterns
Sat, 01.05.2021 – Sun, 16.01.2022
Atrium 1+2, 2nd floor
Cost: Museum Admission
An Installation based on 3D-Renderings of the artwork »Europa – so nah, so fern«
Europa, so fern und doch so nah!
Sat, 01.05.2021 – Sun, 16.05.2021
Music Balcony
Free entry
A blue-lit room with a small child looking at the »Talking Tubes« installation: a control panel between two large tubes
Talking Tubes
Sat, 08.05.2021 – Sun, 04.07.2021
Cube Subspace
A rendered graphic in purple shades, it shows a shady rock landscape inside a building.
Drifting, Browsing, Cruising
July 2021
Museum Balcony
Free entry
Soun-Gui Kim with Bow and Arrow, black and white
Soun-Gui Kim: Lazy Clouds
Sat, 25.09.2021 – Sun, 20.03.2022
Atrium 2, ground floor + 1st floor
Cost: Museum admission
View into the exhibition on the installation »Interactive Plant Growing«
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau. The Artwork As a Living System
Sat, 23.10.2021 – Sun, 20.03.2022
Atrium 1+2, Ground Floor
Cost: Museumseintritt

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