2021 Overview

At the ZKM 2021 will be shaped predominantly by research and the productive symbiosis of artificial intelligence, sustainability, and Data Art. Highlights will be the exhibition »BioMedia (BioMimetic Media)« and the project »The Intelligent Museum«.

With the exhibition »Critical Zones«, which opened in spring 2020 and has now been extended until August 8, 2021, and our call for a new Earthly politics the ZKM has demonstrated it is one of the »Guardians of Gaia« (Peter Weibel). In 2021 the ZKM’s biophilic program continues with the exhibitions »BioMedia« and »The Artwork as a Living System« as well as the project »Driving the Human«. The unanticipated Covid-19 crisis has brought home to us in a drastic way how very necessary this biophilic program is: as artists, scientists, art lovers, and philosophers (friends of wisdom) we shall all become friends of life (biophiles) more intensely than ever before.