Opening weekend: The Story That Never Ends
Sat, April 05 – Sun, April 06, 2025
- Location
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media
- Entrance fee
- Free admission
To celebrate the opening of our collection exhibition, we are offering a manifold weekend program. There will be guided tours of the exhibitions and the building, inspiring talks, creative workshops, and a film screening. Admission to the exhibitions is free all weekend.
Friday, April 04, 2025
The weekend begins with the opening of the exhibition »The Story That Never Ends«. With this exhibition, ZKM | Karlsruhe offers a comprehensive insight into its own collection, which, with around 12,000 works, is one of the largest and most important media art collections in the world.
Simultaneously, the exhibition »Waldemar Cordeiro. Constellations. From Concrete Art to Computer Art« will be opened, to which we also cordially invite you.
The exhibition rooms and the mint bar in the foyer of ZKM will be open from 8pm to 11pm.
Saturday, April 05, 2025
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Guided tours
Time in Program Location 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Guided tour in French
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Curator's guided tour
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Guided tour
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Architek_Tour
Hallenbau AInformation desk 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Guided tour in simple language
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk 5:00 pm Guided tour with Alistair Hudson
»Fellow Travellers. Art as a tool to change the world«
Useum in the exhibition Fellow Travellers Guided tour: Singing plants Useum in the exhibition Fellow Travellers -
Talks, concert and film screening
Time in CEST Program Location 1:30 pm with Nicolas Bernier, Ken Feingold, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
Living Room, Atrium 2, ground floor 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Dancing Sea: Guest performance by the Badisches Staatstheater
Sound installation with the Orchestra of Changefollowed by a discussion with Alistair Hudson (from 4:20 pm in the Useum, Atrium 8+9, 1st floor), GMD Georg Fritzsch, composer Shih and biologist Prof. Thomas Bosch
Atrium 8+9 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Film Screening »Waldemar Cordeiro. Exact Fantasy«
followed by a discussion + Q&A with Analivia Cordeiro and Margit Rosen (from 5:15 pm)
Media Lounge
Sunday, April 06, 2025
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Guided tours
Time in CEST Program Location 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Guided tour in simple language
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Architek_Tour
Hallenbau AInformation desk 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Guided tour of the depot
DepotInformation desk 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Guided tour
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Guided tour
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Guided tour of the depot
DepotInformation desk 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Guided tour
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Guided tour in French
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Movement guided tour
»The Story That Never Ends. The ZKM Collection«Information desk -
Workshop
Time in CEST Program Location 11:30 am - 5:30 pm Your Story will never End - Your story in the collection Living Room, Atrium 2, ground floor