KIKUK 2.0
Creatively Critical with AI

Are you students interested in AI and how to work with it creatively? Then take part in our competition “KIKUK – Creative and Critical Artificial Intelligence”! Choose a topic that matters to you and create artworks using AI tools. Whether it’s an image, music, or video – let your imagination run wild!

KIKUK – Kreativ und kritisch mit künstlicher Intelligenz © Goethe-Institut

Our motto for the 2025/2026 competition is:
“My Future with AI”

  • How will AI change your everyday life?
  • How will we learn, work, communicate, and relax in the future?

Form a team and use an AI application of your choice to create your own AI artwork that reflects your vision of the future. Everything is allowed: videos, music, images, video installations, texts…

Submit your contribution by Nov. 17, 2025!


Win the national KIKUK competition in your country and work in a global team with students from Taipei to San Francisco! Find more information on the websites of Goethe-Instituts in the participating countries.

Artificial Intelligence

  • How will AI change your life? Show us your ideas!

    KIKUK

    Create your own artwork with your team – using AI and your creativity. Whether it’s video, music, image or text: anything is possible.

    Grafik zu KIKUK

  • Exciting Ideas for the Classroom

    Artificial Intelligence

    The Goethe Institut’s 2025 Calendar contains a wide range of resources on the topic of artificial intelligence.

    Brain model © picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild | Robert Michael © picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild | Robert Michael

Participating in the competition

New: KIKUK Teacher Award

Would you like to use artificial intelligence to create advertising for your German programme? Then take part in the KIKUK Teacher Award! Use an AI tool to create original advertising material – for example, a poster, a video, a song in your native language – there are no limits to your imagination.

Submit your entry to participating Goethe-Instituts between 15 September and 17 November, 2025. The most original idea will receive an award!
 

Online Seminar for German Teachers

KIKUK 2.0 – My Future with AI: Using Art and AI Creatively in your German classroom

Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)
Format: Online
Target Audience: Teachers od German as a Foreign Language, German as a Second Language; international
Working Language: German
Speakers: Marje Zschiesche-Stock, Sabine Hellwig
Organizer: Cornelsen Verlag

Is this art or can it go?” This question has long sparked debate about what art really is. Since the first AI-created artwork in 1965, the discussion has become even more interesting. Today, with tools like ChatGPT and image generators, we ask: What makes art unique? And how can we bring this topic into the classroom?

In this online seminar, we will explore how to use art and AI in DaF lessons in a creative and thoughtful way. The goal is to help teachers inspire their students to join the competition “KIKUK 2.0 – Artificial Intelligence: Creative and Critical” and work with AI in a hands-on way.

Free training offered on two dates:

 

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  • Cornelsen
  • c't magazin für computer technik

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