Traditionally, at the end of the summer semester, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design invites visitors to its annual tour of the atriums and offers a look behind the scenes of the university for a long weekend. The workshops, atriums and rooms of the HfG Karlsruhe will once again become an exhibition space for the 2025 tour under the motto KIOSK, from July 24 to 27.

The large annual exhibition will showcase current projects from all degree programs and subject groups - Communication Design, Product Design, Media Art, Exhibition Design & Scenography and Art Research & Media Philosophy. In the atriums of the HfG and at other presentation locations throughout the university, visitors can gain an insight into around 100 student works. These include performances, installations, videos, objects and texts. An accompanying program of events with public tours, film screenings, talks and other formats, co-organized by the university's General Student Committee, offers opportunities for exchange with students and teachers over four days.

During the tour, the HfG presents itself as a lively place where art, theory and design come together in interdisciplinary projects. With “THE NEST”, for example, three students from the Product Design department are designing a life-size, nest-like pavilion made from regional, bio-based materials such as hemp, wood and invasive plants. The installation reflects ecological value chains and was created in cooperation with the Bio Design Lab, which specializes in regenerative materials and sustainable design approaches at the HfG. Students from the Department of Exhibition Design and Scenography, on the other hand, are presenting a mobile stage set that creates a speculative future scenario for the year 2034 - with a view to ecological tipping points, global justice and political agency. The work is based on the novel “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson and is being created in cooperation with Theater Neumarkt and Collegium Helveticum Zurich.

On the opening evening of the Rundgang on Thursday 24 July 2025 at 7:00 p.m. the Fördergesellschaft ZKM / HfG e. V., Gunther-Schroff-Stiftung, BBBank eG, Heinrich-Hertz-Gesellschaft e. V. and Riemschneider-Stiftung will present awards for outstanding final and semester projects. The nominated works were selected in advance of the exhibition by professors from all departments.
This year's nominees include, for example, the project by the two students Sophie Reißfelder and Luise Peschko, entitled “Sometimes pain is very quiet”: an immersive, autobiographical audio piece installation that addresses the silent and often invisible struggle with a serious, nameless illness. A jury of experts from the fields of science, art and culture selects the winners from the nominated works. The awards honor special achievements and support the further development of projects.

Opening hours

On July 24: 7 pm to 10 pm
On July 25-27: 11 am to 6 pm

Public guided tours: July 25 to 27, 2025, at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. respectively

Admission is free for the entire duration.

Thursday, July 24, 2025

In advance at the HfG
9:00-16:00 Assembly of Resources 2 & Petrographies | Joint final colloquium with guests | Room 103

OPENING | Stage in atrium 1, ground floor
19:00 Welcome by the Rectorate
19:30 Award ceremony of the ZKM/HfG Sponsorship Society

20:30 Music Acts | Open Air in front of the HfG

Friday, July 25, 2025

11:00-14:00 AStA screen printing workshop
11:00 Guided tour | duration 30-60min | meeting point gatehouse entrance Brauerstraße
11:30 Tour & Talk | with Fara Peluso & Luzia Holzbach | Living Library & Bio Design Lab
12:00 Launch and ADSZ gathering | Lichtbrücke or Bauminsel
14:00 Performing Landscapes of leisure and extraction: quarries and other colonies | Yanina Sharipova & Laura Weser | Stage Lichthof 3
14:00 Studio Kralle: I do something for you | Reling
14:30-15:30 Quiz show: Who gets the ticket? | Room 112
14:30-16:00 Social & Thirsty: Workshop on customizing (glass) drinking vessels/bottles | please bring your own vessels | meeting point at the water bubbler on the 1st floor
15:00 Performance: Hf(M)G/Hochschule für (Mit)-Gestaltung | Lichtbrücke
15:00 Guided tour | duration 30-60min | meeting point gatehouse entrance Brauerstraße
15:00-17:00 Student films | Cinema in the blue salon
16:00 Artist talk: with Isabel Motz & Amelie Albertine Enders | GEDOK-Forum
16:00-17:15 Lecture on “Techniques of Military Imaging” with Dr. Nina Franz (HBK Braunschweig) | Room 112
17:30-18:30 Launch Schwarm Issue 4: Realities and Say No to the Future | Opening KuPhi Concept Store with drinks | green corner on the 1st floor
19:00 Taking Venice - A Documentary by Amei Wallach | Presentation | Blauer Salon

Saturday, July 26, 2025

11:00-12:00 Creed of a Doubter - With Schlingensief against the Fear Industry | Performance and Installation | Room 112
11:00 Guided tour | duration 30-60min | meeting point gatehouse entrance Brauerstraße
11:00-16:00 AStA flea market | decks & kiosk with further surprises | in front of the HfG
12:00-13:00 The only real person left | Scenic reading | Room 112
13:00-14:00 Retrospective of the seminars Betwixt & Between | Ascetic Practice and Paranoia as Structure and Method | Room 112
14:00 Studio Kralle: I do something for you | Reling
15:00 Guided tour | duration 30-60min | meeting point gatehouse entrance Brauerstraße
15:00-16:00 Let's Say It's an Island | 4 designs for the conversion of room 112 | Room 112
16:00-16:45 Book Launch Generativity (DFG program “The Digital Image”) | Room 112
15:00-18:00 Diploma exhibition at Silberstreifen: Jette Schwabe & Lina Determann “Erikas Töchter” / Lena Breitmoser “The Violent Container” | Akazienweg 8, Rheinstetten > additionally open Sunday on request / contact: ed.ehurslrak-gfh(ta)ebawhcsh
16:00 “Generativity”: Book Launch with Matthias Bruhn, Moritz Konrad & Katharina Weinstock | Room 112
21:00-22:30 “HfG Party 1996” | Cinema in the Blue Salon

Sunday July 27, 2025

11:00 Guided tour | duration 30-60min | meeting point gatehouse entrance Brauerstraße
14:00 Studio Kralle: I do something for you | Reling
15:00 Guided tour | duration 30-60min | meeting point gatehouse entrance Brauerstraße

Construction trailer kiosk incl. drinks bar

Thursday, July 24, 2025: 18:30 - 00:00

Friday, July 25, 2025: 11:00 - 22:00
(18:00 - 22:00 cornern at the kiosk)

Saturday, July 26, 2025: 11:00 - 18:00
(flea market with music and other things 11:00 - 16:00)

Sunday, July 27, 2025: 11:00 - 18:00