Current Exhibitions

The exhibition provides a new insight into the collection of ZKM, which is one of the largest and most important media art collections in the world.

The exhibition will be the first German retrospective of Brazilian artist, theorist and designer Waldemar Cordeiro (1925–73).

The exhibition offers insights into 30 years of alternative browser development. You can discover and try out browser visions yourself using interactive installations.

The exhibition, organized together with the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, is Sung Hwan Kim's largest solo exhibition in Europe to date. It shows complex installations by the Korean artist, including many video and performance works created in musical collaboration with the musician and composer David Michael DiGregorio (alias dogr).

With »Fellow Travellers« we are creating a polyphonic and dynamic exhibition space at ZKM, through which artists, scientists, communities, and citizens can collaborate and learn from each other. Collectively, we want to find new, practical ways to shape our planetary coexistence.

In the context of the exhibition platform »Fellow Travellers«, the art project by Khanda Hameed and Nabaz Samad addresses the special role of women in the struggle to preserve the Kurdish language and identity.

The computer game platform of ZKM. It invites visitors to engage in informative and creative exchange – and, of course, to play games. The exhibition is aimed at gamers of all ages, but also at visitors who have little experience with computer games.

Video games are popular around the world - but not everyone can enjoy them fully. Barriers in controls, presentation or design make access difficult for many people. But there are solutions: From adjustable game settings and difficulty levels to personalisable controllers.

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will be a guest at the ZKM with a multifaceted exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of its founding.

The main building of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe has been closed for extensive renovation. However, significant parts of the collection are still on display to the public – as guests at ZKM | Karlsruhe.

With »All Memory Is Theft«, the ZKM presents its extensive retrospective on Belgian film and media artist Johan Grimonprez (*1962), whose work explores the boundaries between theory and practice, art and cinema, documentary and fiction.

The ZKM | Karlsruhe is honoring the work of the Stuttgart-based artist Ulrich Bernhardt (*1942) with an exhibition called »Ulrich Bernhardt. NOW: It was, will be and is«. Bernhardt is one of the most important pioneers of media art in Baden-Württemberg.

In July 2025, » Fellow Travellers« will open the new exhibition chapter » Assembling Grounds: Practices of Coexistence«. The chapter was developed in India and Sri Lanka on the basis of the ZKM traveling exhibition » Critical Zones . In Search of a Common Ground « (2022–24).

The exhibition examines the beginnings of video art in Switzerland and its resonance in Europe in the 1970s. Performances, television criticism, installations and video manipulations show how this medium has been involved in the development of the visual arts.

bMEDIA is a digital platform and part of the exhibition »BioMedia. The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior«.

Enter a virtual exhibition model of »Iconoclash«, a historical landmark project of the ZKM.