A blue-lit room with a small child looking at the »Talking Tubes« installation: a control panel between two large tubes

Talking Tubes

Installation by Jean-Remy

Fri, 02.07.2021
– Sun, 19.09.2021
A rendered graphic in purple shades, it shows a shady rock landscape inside a building.

Thu, 08.07.2021
– Sun, 1.08.2021
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
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, 09.01.2022
Poster »Writing the History of the Future«

Sat, 23.02.2019
– Sun, 09.01.2022
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, 05.09.2021
Wobble Garden

zkm_gameplay. the next level

The computer game platform of the ZKM

open again from 28.07.21!

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Our exhibitions are open Wednesday to Sunday. All information for your visit can be found here. Tickets can be purchased on site, but also in our online store.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

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Current events

Arthur Jafa stands in front of a wall with a photograph of two young African-Americans with guns.
Retrospective Arthur Jafa
ZKM FilmIsle

Wed, 21.07.2021, 7 pm – Fri, 23.07.2021, 10 pm

Portrait of ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI
Guided Tour with Albert-László Barabási
Fri, 23.07.2021, 3 pm
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Atrium 1+2, 2nd floor
Free entry
Booked out
Language: English

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The conceptual artist Christian Boltanski has passed away
In memory of Christian Boltanski, whose outstanding installations and other works addressed oblivion and remembrance.
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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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