From 7 to 29 March 2026, THE CAGE, an art installation consisting of over 500 handmade birdcages by Karlsruhe-based Iraqi artist Fahar Al-Salih, will be on display at the Evangelische Stadtkirche. The supporting programme also includes concerts with students from the Karlsruhe University of Music. The students regularly organise the lunchtime concerts, which normally take place on Fridays at 12.15 p.m. in the Kleine Kirche.
Three of the lunchtime concerts have now been moved to the Protestant City Church on the occasion of THE CAGE: on 13 March, Ririko Kanno will play études by Claude Debussy and Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22, and Robert Schumann's Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 11. On 20 March, there will be a programme entitled "Passionsmusik" with late works by Franz Liszt with Leon Sundermeyer at the piano.
On 27 March, Thomas Doyeong Kim and Christian Rupp will perform works by Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff and Christian Rupp's own compositions.
In addition, on Wednesday, 18 March at 7:30 p.m., there will be a concert with the percussion class of the Karlsruhe University of Music under Prof. Vanessa Porter: ‘Inside THE CAGE – Percussion in Dialogue’. Here, the theme of the installation will be taken up, playing with sounds, silence, space, rhythm and resonance.