Karlsruhe
Art exhibitions in Karlsruhe.
The Story That Never Ends. Die Sammlung des ZKM
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe
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Wed–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–18:00, closed Mon–Tue; free admission Fri from 14:00
ZKM/Kunsthalle combination ticket 14 €, reduced 10 €; free Fri from 14:00
A long-running presentation of the ZKM collection, following media art across decades and the work of keeping those works usable.
William Forsythe. Choreographic Instructions
- William Forsythe
ZKM | Forecourt and public space unusual venue
Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe
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On view in the public space around the ZKM (no indoor ticket required)
Free, as stated by ZKM
Choreographic tasks set in the public space around the ZKM, inviting passers-by to follow instructions and pay attention to their own bodies.
Der Fernseher als Galerie. Das Archiv Gerry Schum und Ursula Wevers
- Gerry Schum
- Ursula Wevers
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe
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Wed–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–18:00, closed Mon–Tue; free admission Fri from 14:00
ZKM/Kunsthalle combination ticket 14 €, reduced 10 €; free Fri from 14:00
A show drawn from the archive of Gerry Schum and Ursula Wevers, who in the 1960s and 1970s put avant-garde art on West German television.
Lost Places in Karlsruhe. Fotografien von Harald Wacker
- Harald Wacker
Stadtmuseum im Prinz-Max-Palais
Karlstraße 10, 76133 Karlsruhe
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Tue and Fri 10:00–18:00, Thu 10:00–19:00, Sat 14:00–18:00, Sun 11:00–18:00 (closed Mon and Wed, per the city calendar)
4 €, reduced 2 €
A photography exhibition of deserted or overlooked sites in Karlsruhe, shown as a special exhibition in the city museum.
Silver Egg. Die Sinnlichkeit der Medienkunst
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe
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Wed–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–18:00, closed Mon–Tue; free admission Fri from 14:00
ZKM/Kunsthalle combination ticket 14 €, reduced 10 €; free Fri from 14:00
A media-art exhibition that asks how art can meet contemporary longings and shortfalls, and what forms of perception that requires.
Catherine Christer Hennix: Cosmological Critique
- Catherine Christer Hennix
Badischer Kunstverein
Waldstraße 3, 76133 Karlsruhe
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Tue–Fri 11:00–19:00, Sat–Sun and holidays 11:00–17:00, closed Mon
3 €, reduced 1.50 €; members free
A survey of Catherine Christer Hennix's work across music, mathematics, language and spiritual practice, treated as 'semiotic objects' rather than conventional pictures.
Nicolas Daubanes. Le feu intérieur
- Nicolas Daubanes
Orangerie der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Hans-Thoma-Straße 6, 76133 Karlsruhe
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Tue–Wed 11:00–18:00, Thu 11:00–20:00, Fri–Sun and holidays 11:00–18:00, closed Mon
8 €, reduced 6 €; children and young people up to 17 free; free Fri from 14:00
A special exhibition in the Kunsthalle's Orangerie presenting Nicolas Daubanes in dialogue with earlier images, including works associated with Piranesi, Courbet and Böcklin.
Graphic Stories. Erzählen trotz allem
Junge Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Hans-Thoma-Straße 4, 76133 Karlsruhe
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Tue–Fri 09:00–17:00, Sat–Sun and holidays 10:00–18:00, closed Mon
Admission to the Junge Kunsthalle is free
A comics and picture-story exhibition at the Junge Kunsthalle, aimed at visitors from about 15 upwards, about how images keep telling stories under pressure.
Lichtpassagen 2026
- Bernd Hentschel
AktivioSport (studio for health training) unusual venue
Am Rüppurrer Schloß 5, 76199 Karlsruhe
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Studio hours stated on the city calendar: Mon and Wed 07:00–21:00, Tue, Thu and Fri 07:00–20:00, Sat–Sun 09:00–14:00; the calendar also notes 16:00–18:00 in the listing line
A selection of dance photographs by the Karlsruhe photographer Bernd Hentschel, on view in a health-training studio in Rüppurr rather than in a gallery.
Arrangierte Welten
Four venues: Citydruck, Intro, COLA TAXI OKAY, Gottesauer Eck unusual venue
Citydruck, Hirschstraße 9; Intro, Kaiserstraße 93; COLA TAXI OKAY, Kronenstraße 25; Gottesauer Eck, Wolfartsweierer Str. 1, Karlsruhe
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A collage exhibition by 16 artists, spread across a print shop, a café, a cultural space and a bar, rather than a single gallery.
Agentic Constellations. Kartografie des Verborgenen
EnBW-Konzernzentrale (foyer) unusual venue
Foyer der EnBW-Konzernzentrale, Karlsruhe
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A ZKM presentation in the foyer of the EnBW headquarters, showing what happens when autonomous AI agents explore data on the internet and turn it into images.
Brand und Katastrophe – Zündeln und Löschen in Baden 1700-1900
Badische Landesbibliothek unusual venue
Erbprinzenstraße 15, 76133 Karlsruhe
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Mon–Fri 09:00–19:00, Sat 10:00–18:00, closed Sundays and public holidays
Free admission
A historical exhibition in the state library about fire, arson and firefighting in Baden between 1700 and 1900.
Bildende Kunst im FFMK
Orgelfabrik Durlach unusual venue
Amthausstraße 17, 76227 Karlsruhe
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12–15 November 2026, 19:00–22:00 (hours as given on the city calendar listing)
A short exhibition of current work by visual artists associated with the Forum Freie Musik Karlsruhe, held in the municipal cultural centre in Durlach.
UN_CTRL
ZKM | Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe
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Wed–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–18:00, closed Mon–Tue; free admission Fri from 14:00
ZKM/Kunsthalle combination ticket 14 €, reduced 10 €; free Fri from 14:00
An exhibition, grown out of a three-day festival, that looks at artistic and collaborative ways of making technology serve a common good rather than a handful of companies.
LUCKY 13
LUIS LEU – experimentelle Kunstplattform
Luisenstraße 32, 76137 Karlsruhe
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13–15 November 2026, 18:00–22:00
Free admission
A short interdisciplinary group exhibition at the experimental platform LUIS LEU, bringing together artists from several German cities.
Mia Oberländer. Open House (Mind the Gap 2)
- Mia Oberländer
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe at the ZKM
Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe
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Wed–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–18:00, closed Mon–Tue
Charged with the ZKM/Kunsthalle combination ticket (14 €, reduced 10 €); free Fri from 14:00
A studio exhibition in which the comic artist Mia Oberländer answers the Kunsthalle's closure for renovation with a new graphic novel about staff, temporary venues and the move of the collection.
100 Jahre GEDOK – Das Archiv Künstlerinnen Fotografie Medienkunst (AKFM)
- Simone Demandt
- Sabine Schäfer
- Ulrike Rosenbach
- Ute Meta Bauer
- Sandra Becker 01
- Anette C. Halm
- Anne Wellmer
- Chris Popović
- Christina Zück
- Adelheid Heine-Stillmark
GEDOK Künstlerinnenforum
Markgrafenstraße 14, 76131 Karlsruhe
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Wed–Fri 17:00–19:00, Sat–Sun 14:00–16:00; video projection additionally Wed–Sun 19:00–22:00; opening Friday 20 November 2026, 18:00
Free admission
A centenary presentation of GEDOK Karlsruhe's archive of women artists in photography and media art, with photographs, videos and an interactive archive display in the Künstlerinnenforum.
Markus Lüpertz
- Markus Lüpertz
Kunstmuseum Karlsruhe (Künstler*innenraum)
Lorenzstraße 27, 76135 Karlsruhe
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Wed–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–18:00, closed Mon–Tue
A room of selected collection works marking Markus Lüpertz's 85th birthday, showing his painting between myth, history and expression.
Martin Parr. Parrathon
- Martin Parr
Kunstmuseum Karlsruhe
Lorenzstraße 27, 76135 Karlsruhe
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Wed–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–18:00, closed Mon–Tue
A large survey of Martin Parr's photographs, more than 400 pictures from almost five decades, grouped in thematic chapters on everyday life, tourism, consumption and luxury.
Susanne Ackermann. everything always changes
- Susanne Ackermann
Kunstmuseum Karlsruhe (Projektraum)
Lorenzstraße 27, 76135 Karlsruhe
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Wed–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–18:00, closed Mon–Tue
The 13th exhibition of the museum's support association, showing new large paintings and drawings by the Karlsruhe artist Susanne Ackermann. (The annual programme PDF printed 22 November as the start date; the city's 11 November 2026 press release says the show opens on Saturday 21 November, after a joint opening on 20 November at 19:00.)