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Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design was first established as a progressive school on April 15, 1992. It was founded by Heinrich Klotz between the years 1989 and 1992, together with the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The combination of teaching, research, and exhibition institutions addresses the given artistic and pedagogic task of relating traditional arts to media technology and electronic production processes.

Portfolio consultation appointments 2025/26

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Open house at Hallenbau 2026

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(© Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Marc Strauß and Felix Plachtzik, Font: Sun Young Oh)

Study brochure cover (© Lu Kellert and Tim Drekopf)

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Announcement
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Opening of Research Colloquium OPEN DRAFTS with Helin Ulas & Lydia Xynogala – November 20, 2025 / 6 pm / Lichtbrücke HfG Karlsruhe

Announcement
Aug
14
HfG students and alumni at Media Art is Here 2025 – Aug.14th - Sept. 14th, 2025

Exhibition
Nov
05
Frameworks of Fiction – Students of the HfG at the Kunsthalle Mannheim

Announcement
Nov
06
Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing mit Špela Petric (Ljubljana / Amsterdam): Eeating back. – Thursday, Nov. 6 / 6pm / HfG Lichtbrücke

Event
Nov
07
ARD Hörspieltage 2025 at HfG and ZKM Karlsruhe – November 7 to 10, 2025

Event
Nov
15
HfG-Absolvent Tobias Kraft im Badischen Kunstverein

Event
Nov
21
Mini Composter and Soil Quality Workshop – 21.11.25, 15:00 until 17:00 / Living Library

Event
Dec
04
Diskursreihe "thinking inside out" mit Oxana Timofeeva - Where is Home? Topophilia in Times of Displacement – 4.12.25 / ab 18:30 Uhr / ZKM Medialounge

Event
Dec
04
Critical Faculties. BiPoC+ FLINTA* at Art Academies - LAUNCH – 04.12.25 / 6 - 9 pm / HfG Lichthof

Event
Dec
08
Kurzfilmprogramm mit Buchvorstellung: Mit Nonchalance am Abgrund - Die Neue Münchner Gruppe – 08.12.25 – Kino im Blauen Salon

Event
Dec
11
Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing mit Jia Liu (Karlsruhe) & Edy Fung (Stockholm/Belfast): Superposition Composition. – Dec.. 11, 2025 / 7pm / ZKM Kubus

Event
Dec
12
Zur Sache, Schätzchen (1968) – 12.12.25 – Kino im Blauen Salon

Event
Dec
18
Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing with Lauren Lee McCarthy (UCLA): Becoming Auto. – Thursday Dec. 18, 06:00 pm (hybrid), HfG Lichtbrücke,

Event
Dec
19
Film: Das Fest (1998) – 19.12.25 – Kino im Blauen Salon

Event
Jan
16
Film: Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (16mm) – 16.01.2026

Announcement
Jan
20
Portfolio consultation appointments 2025/26

Event
Jan
22
Conversation on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing mit Nolwenn Maudet (Université de Strasbourg) – Jan. 22, 2026 / 1.30 pm / HfG Lichtbrücke

Event
Jan
30
Film: Oldboy (35mm OmU) - Kino im Blauen Salon – 30.01.2026

Event
Feb
01
Open house at Hallenbau 2026 – February 1, 2026

Event
Feb
05
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design at the art Karlsruhe fair 2026 – February 5-8, 2026

Event
Feb
13
Double Feature: Mann beißt Hund + Raumkreuzer Hydra – 13.02.26 - Kino im Blauen Salon

Event
Feb
20
Jazz im Blauen Salon (Open Stage) – 20.02.26 – Kino im Blauen Salon

Event
Feb
21
This Is Not The End (2021), Diplomfilm über das HfG-Kinoprojekt – 21.02.26 – Kino im Blauen Salon

Event
Feb
27
What Time Is It There (2001) – 27.02.26 - Kino im Blauen Salon

Event
Mar
05
Living Library: AfterMatter – A Gathering for Circular Un/Making – 05.03.2026 / 16:00 – 23:30 Uhr / Living Library HfG Lichthof

Event
Mar
07
Workshop „Aktwechsel“ – 07.03.26 - Kino im Blauen Salon

- Event
  
  05.03.2026
- Living Library: AfterMatter – A Gathering for Circular Un/Making – 05.03.2026 / 16:00 – 23:30 Uhr / Living Library HfG Lichthof

- Event
  
  13.02.2026
- Double Feature: Mann beißt Hund + Raumkreuzer Hydra – 13.02.26 - Kino im Blauen Salon

- Event
  
  05.02.2026
- Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design at the art Karlsruhe fair 2026 – February 5-8, 2026

- Event
  
  22.01.2026
- Conversation on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing mit Nolwenn Maudet (Université de Strasbourg) – Jan. 22, 2026 / 1.30 pm / HfG Lichtbrücke

- Announcement
  
  20.01.2026
- Portfolio consultation appointments 2025/26

- Event
  
  18.12.2025
- Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing with Lauren Lee McCarthy (UCLA): Becoming Auto. – Thursday Dec. 18, 06:00 pm (hybrid), HfG Lichtbrücke,

- Event
  
  11.12.2025
- Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing mit Jia Liu (Karlsruhe) & Edy Fung (Stockholm/Belfast): Superposition Composition. – Dec.. 11, 2025 / 7pm / ZKM Kubus

- Event
  
  04.12.2025
- Diskursreihe "thinking inside out" mit Oxana Timofeeva - Where is Home? Topophilia in Times of Displacement – 4.12.25 / ab 18:30 Uhr / ZKM Medialounge

- Announcement
  
  29.11.2025
- Enna Erben releases debut album Gassi – November 29, 2025 | Studio Heinz Records

- Event
  
  21.11.2025
- Mini Composter and Soil Quality Workshop – 21.11.25, 15:00 until 17:00 / Living Library

- Announcement
  
  18.11.2025
- Memory Is The Future in Reverse: Ein Gespräch zwischen Johan Grimonprez und dem Autor Tom McCarthy – 18.11.25 / 18 Uhr / Lichthof 8+9, 1. OG, Useum

- Event
  
  15.11.2025
- HfG-Absolvent Tobias Kraft im Badischen Kunstverein

- Event
  
  15.11.2025
- HfG students and alumni participate in DESACTA at SAVVY Contemporary – Opening: November 13, 2025 / BERLIN

- Event
  
  07.11.2025
- ARD Hörspieltage 2025 at HfG and ZKM Karlsruhe – November 7 to 10, 2025

- Announcement
  
  06.11.2025
- Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing mit Špela Petric (Ljubljana / Amsterdam): Eeating back. – Thursday, Nov. 6 / 6pm / HfG Lichtbrücke

- Announcement
  
  30.10.2025
- Conversations on Art and Media: Unconventional Computing mit Shintaro Miyazaki (HU Berlin): Endosymbiotic Computation.

- Event
  
  29.10.2025
- CANCELLED:"Take Back the Economy" - Vortrag von Kathrin Böhm am 29.10.2025, 18 Uhr, Medialounge

- Announcement
  
  22.10.2025
- Prof. Susanne Kriemann receive the After Nature Prize 26 – Exhibition at C/O Berlin | Sep 12, 2026 - Feb 3, 2027

- Announcement
  
  20.10.2025
- Generativität – Second volume of the series „Begriffe des digitalen Bildes“

- Exhibition
  
  17.10.2025
- Installation Graniczanka at the festival “Politik im Freien Theater” – October 17-25, 2025 | Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig

- Event
  
  17.10.2025
- Exhibition "Bystander" – 17–24 October 2025 at ZKM Pavilion

- Event
  
  16.10.2025
- Opening of Research Colloquium OPEN DRAFTS with Dr. Pierre Depaz – October 16, 2025 / 7pm / Lichtbrücke HfG Karlsruhe

- Announcement
  
  15.10.2025
- Öffnungszeiten HfG während der Weihnachtsfeiertage

- Announcement
  
  13.10.2025
- New professorship for winter semester 2025/26

- Announcement
  
  13.10.2025
- Schaufenster now online

- Event
  
  11.10.2025
- KLAK presents the LIFT-Lesung at the big elevator during Literaturtage Karlsruhe 2025 – 11.10.2025

- Announcement
  
  10.10.2025
- New Chair and new appointments to the University Council of the HfG Karlsruhe

- Announcement
  
  27.09.2025
- tour de l'ost - a scenic exploration of the inner city east – September 27 & 28, 2025, 4 p.m.

- Announcement
  
  24.09.2025
- HfG Alumnus Till Gombert mit Kinofilm RAUMTEILER in Karlsruhe – 24. September 2025, um 19:30 Uhr in der Kinemathek Karlsruhe

- Announcement
  
  24.09.2025
- Filmscreening von HfG Diplomand Alexander Thelen: "Das Wasser ist silberhell und durchsichtig und möchte unberührt sein"

- Announcement
  
  04.09.2025
- “The archive is alive!” – New film program at the cinema in the Blue Salon

- Announcement
  
  21.08.2025
- Amelie Poxleitner is German Design Award Newcomer Nominee 2026 🏆

- Announcement
  
  19.08.2025
- HfG Graduate Lukas Klein exhibits at German Design Graduates in Cologne – 4 September – 12 October 2025

- Announcement
  
  14.08.2025
- HfG students and alumni at Media Art is Here 2025 – Aug.14th - Sept. 14th, 2025

- Announcement
  
  14.08.2025
- BBBank-Awards 2025 an der HfG Karlsruhe produziert

- Announcement
  
  27.07.2025
- Die HfG gratuliert den PreisträgerInnen des Rundgangs 2025

- Event
  
  24.07.2025
- Rundgang 2025 – Annual exhibition of the HfG Karlsruhe under the motto “KIOSK”

- Exhibition
  
  18.07.2025
- "Wasser auf Kiefer - oder - Die Zeit liegt quer" – 20.07. - 02.11.2025: Exhibition in the Fruchthalle Rastatt

- Announcement
  
  18.07.2025
- DZiKADiVA – (engl. „the wild diva“)

- Exhibition
  
  17.07.2025
- HfG artists present current works at the GEDOK Forum – Amelie Enders and Isabel Motz, July 18 to 27, 2025

- Announcement
  
  07.07.2025
- Professor Céline Condorelli develops sculpture for Folkestone Triennial 2025 – Exhibition in Great Britain / 19.07 - 19.10.2025

- Announcement
  
  02.07.2025
- Susanne Kriemann: Being a Photograph – Book presentation in Berlin on July 04, 2025

- Announcement
  
  01.07.2025
- Test Assemblies – A Laboratory for Robotic Architecture and Digital Fabrication at La Biennale Architettura

- Announcement
  
  27.06.2025
- STADTRADELN 2025 – from 29 June to 19 July 2025

- Event
  
  13.05.2025
- Tour & Talk / Get-Together of Living Library on May 13th, 2025 – 11-12.30

- Announcement
  
  08.05.2025
- "thinking inside out": Kathy Rae Huffman at ZKM Medialounge, May 8, 2025 – 6.30 pm // Free entry

- Announcement
  
  13.04.2025
- Semester and Lecture Periods at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG)

- Announcement
  
  11.04.2025
- UNWIND, UNPLUG, DISASSEMBLE - HfG Karlsruhe für Moroso beim Salone del Mobile 2025

- Announcement
  
  28.03.2025
- HfG Alumna Marleine Chedraoui Winner of Hannah Nagel Prize 2025

- Announcement
  
  24.01.2025
- Medienkunst Sound zu Gast im Gedok Karlsruhe – Ausstellungseröffnung am 24.Januar 2025

- Announcement
  
  28.10.2024
- Kino im Blauen Salon receives Kinopreis 2024 – of the Kinematheksverbund in Berlin

- Announcement
- New equal opportunities team – for diversity and fair cooperation

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