Collection
Founded in 1989, the ZKM collection includes some 12,000 works of art from the 20th and 21st centuries: paintings, drawings, graphics, photographs, sculptures and installations as well as video art, digital art, light art and sound art.
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![Servaas, »Apartheid Is the Devil. [Ausschnitt], from the series: »Infermental 6: Telepathic Music«, 1986, U-Matic, color, mono, 00:06:04, ZKM | Center for Art and Media. / © Servaas   Apartheid Is the Devil](/system/files/styles/img_node_media_teaser/private/field_media_image/2023/02/23/101414/i004112.jpg?itok=F0fRtHgH) 
![Reinhard Döhl, »ohne Titel (Apfel)« [Untitled (Apple)], 1970, screen print on paper, 65 x 50 cm, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. / © Reinhard Döhl  ; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Franz J. Wamhof Apfel mit Wurm](/system/files/styles/img_node_media_teaser/private/field_media_image/2023/02/23/101414/MNK_08451_170-2018_doehl_ohne-titel-apfel_001.jpg?itok=jR265Ygw) 
 
 
![Sigmar Polke, »Apparat, mit dem eine Kartoffel eine andere umkreisen kann« [Apparatus Whereby One Potato Can Orbit Another], 1969, wooden stand, motor, potatoes, wire, 79 x 44 x 44 cm, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. / © The Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn  2014; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: ONUK Apparat, mit dem eine Kartoffel eine andere umkreisen kann](/system/files/styles/img_node_media_teaser/private/field_media_image/2023/02/23/101414/MNK_00304_00147_polke_apparat.jpg?itok=BH_UTTxQ) 
 
 
![Franziska Megert, »Arachne-Vanitas« [Arachne Vanitas], 1991, six-channel video, two-channel audio installation ; 6 monitors, 6 videotapes, 6 videotape recorders, 2 pedestals, Installation dimensions ca. 200 x 150 x 100 cm, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. / ©  VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Arachne-Vanitas](/system/files/styles/img_node_media_teaser/private/field_media_image/2023/02/23/101414/MNK_00242_00200_megert_arachne-vanitas.jpg?itok=XhYKPib8) 
![Bernhard Prinz, »ARAN« [ARAN], from the series »Sieben Gefäße«, 1991, ZKM | Center for Art and Media. / © Bernhard Prinz  ; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Steffen Harms ARAN](/system/files/styles/img_node_media_teaser/private/field_media_image/2023/02/23/101414/MNK_00557_00208_06_prinz_aran.jpg?itok=674z9_al) 
![Nam June Paik, »Arche Noah« [Noah's Ark], 1989, Three-channel video installation ; 25 monitors, 2 laserdiscs, 2 laserdisc players, wood construction, 9 papier-mâché animals, 400 x 560 x 260 cm, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. / © Nam June Paik  ; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Unbekannt Arche Noah](/system/files/styles/img_node_media_teaser/private/field_media_image/2023/02/23/101414/MNK_00263_00016_paik_arche-noah_001.jpg?itok=yw2TsQ2C) 
![Stefan Kunze, »ARCHIV-Heimat« [ARCHIVE Home], 1985 - 2007, ZKM | Center for Art and Media. / © Stefan Kunze  ; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: ONUK ARCHIV-Heimat](/system/files/styles/img_node_media_teaser/private/field_media_image/2023/02/23/101414/MNK_01462_01428_kunze_archiv-heimat.jpg?itok=arl8lJ3L) 
 
![Marie Kawazu, »Armada. [Ausschnitt], from the series: »Infermental 3: Eccentrics«, 1983, U-Matic, b/w, mono, 00:02:55, ZKM | Center for Art and Media. / © Marie Kawazu   Armada](/system/files/styles/img_node_media_teaser/private/field_media_image/2023/02/23/101414/i001812.jpg?itok=ZNEsEjil)