John Sanborn

Opening 08.07.2022, 6 pm.
Phototropy

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

The Artwork as a Living System

Sat, 07.05.2022
– Sun, 31.07.2022
Shooting of "Living Rocks: A Fragment of the Univers", water landscape in which isolated stones are placed

The Beauty of Early Life.

Traces of Early Life

Sat, 26.03.2022
– Sun, 10.07.2022
Human-like beings, made of colourful, fabric-like materials and fringes, walk in a row from left to right.

BioMedia

The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior

Sat, 18.12.2021
–Sun, 28.08.2022
Bats ́n ́Insects, Ransducer on Sandblasting disc

Thu, 05.05.2022
– Sun, 12.06.2022
Reopening Gameplay

zkm_gameplay. the next level

The computer game platform of the ZKM

Reopening Fri, 22.07.2022.
Zuck-ERR-DNA

Zuck-Err-DNA

Exhibition by the artist Kamila B. Richter

Thu, 20.05.2022
– Sun, 24.07.2022

Our exhibitions are open Wednesday to Sunday.

Dear visitors,

The obligation to wear a mask at the ZKM will cease on 30.05.2022.

For your own protection as well as the protection of others and the ZKM staff, we recommend that you wear a mask for the duration of your visit and that you continue to observe the usual hygiene and distance rules.

We thank you for your understanding!

Current events

You can see a picture of the clothing and book bazaar 2021
Clothing and book bazaar

Thu, 30.06.2022, 5 pm

You can see the aftershow party of the »Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung« 2019
Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung

Fri, 01.07.2022

ALEPH
ALEPH Guitar Quartet

Sat, 16.07.2022, 7 pm CEST

Black picture with red writing Kamuna 2022
KAMUNA 2022

Sat, August 06, 2022 6 pm

It’s about life

Lettering It's about life on blue background
The spring and summer program at ZKM

Sat, 26.03.2022 – Sun, 28.08.2022

Today's Opening Hours

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

General Opening Hours

Admission fees

The current prices for a visit at ZKM

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ZKM | Karlsruhe

Lorenzstraße 19
76135 Karlsruhe
Germany

Travelling to ZKM

NEWS FROM ZKM

You can see a celebrating person in front of colorful background. Behind her a drum kit can be seen. Texts run across the entire image.
Opening: John Sanborn. Between Order and Entropy
Fri, 08.07.2022, 6 pm CEST
To the exhibition
All News at a Glance

Voices from ZKM

Two women stand in a passageway with technical equipment behind the scenes at the ZKM and look around.

 

Heaven & Hell

A journey to the most hidden corners of the ZKM

A screenshot of four people in a Zoom meeting.

 

A Museum Worker, a Climate Activist, a Museum Visitor and an Artist Walk into a Zoom Meeting

Online Performance

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

 

Two girls sitting at a table are building a small robot using a motor, batteries, the head of a toothbrush and other utensils.
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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