The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, KHM) is a public art university in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, focused on media arts. Opened in 1990 (established in 1989), it offers project-based study in areas such as film, experimental media, digital art, sound, writing, and art and media theory. Students typically work in studios and labs and develop individual artistic profiles through interdisciplinary projects. KHM is a small, specialised institution with an international outlook and connections to cultural institutions, festivals, and creative industries in Cologne and beyond.