In 2026, the exhibition Media Art Is Here will once again bring art to where life happens: On streets, in squares, and in gardens, visitors will encounter forward-looking media art works that reimagine public space and bring it to life—interactive, inspiring, and free to experience. The exhibition will feature works by local and international artists, including works and projects by HfG students and alumni:

HfG Alumna Norina Quinte, together with Andreas Hölldorfer (ato) and VOLNA, will make a visual statement on climate change with their Pyramide von morgen Pyramid of Tomorrow on the Marktplatz, bridging the city’s history with its ecological future. The media art installation is a temporary, walkable pyramid structure matching the size and shape of the historical pyramid on the square.

Vera Gärtner, Scenographer and artistic staff member in the Exhibition Design and Scenography program at the HfG Karlsruhe, with Live from Plastisphere, makes microplastic pollution in the Alb river visible through very large-format images taken with a scanning electron microscope. Her poetic-scientific approach to local environmental problems is on view at the shop window of the Museum beim Markt and at the fish ladder by the Thomaswehr.

HfG alumni Isabel Motz, Nis Petersen, and Josefine Pilar Scheu pursue the question of what past shapes our present in 2 Flächen bewegen, 50 km/h, Schritttempo. With their performances and an audio walk, they connect two contrasting Karlsruhe locations: the quiet Alter Flugplatz and the busy Kriegsstraße. Through performative walks and car rides, the military imprints of both places are made visible, and questions about the city’s possible futures are raised.

Karolina Sobel, photographer and academic staff at the media art department at HfG Karlsruhe, addresses queer and feminist visibility as well as the fragility of safe spaces in her video work Soft Signals in the ZKM foyer. The collaborative project was created together with Natia Chikvaidze and Davit Khorbaladze from Tbilisi and takes the Georgian painter Elene Akhvlediani (1898–1975) as its starting point.

At studio hö, scholarship holder Isabelle Konrad develops a new visual language for female rage in her transmedia project FURIE. It’s no coincidence that the word “hysteria” comes from the Greek hysterá – womb – and that the Furies of mythology were feared as goddesses of vengeance, not as bringers of justice. FURIE asks what happens to this pent-up energy, and what emerges once it finally claims space. The overall project is conceived as a long-term image and sound atlas that grows beyond the scholarship itself.

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