Auftakt in drei Akten

Prelude in Three Acts

The Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen is on the move: from June 2023 to January 2024 international artists, performers and dancers will activate the collection, exploring the museum’s remarkable architecture and inviting visitors to participate. The programme will illuminate surprising aspects of the museum, whose widely renowned collection of kinetic art is connected in a broad variety of ways with ideas of movement. This is where Prelude in Three Acts takes its cue. The artistic contributions conceived specifically for this series will fill the museum with staged still lifes, fascinating light effects, plant growth, dance, sound and poetry, and highlight its importance as a place of creativity, where innovation can emerge and be experienced. The series of events marks the prelude to a broadly conceived process of opening up, enabling visitors to freshly discover the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen. Tuned to themes of contemporary relevance, exhibitions and presentations from our collection seek to inspire everyone to partake in richly diverse encounters with art.

MiR Dance Company

#findyourmuse

3 June 2023: 6 pm (première), 7 June 2023: 11 am, 10. Juni 2023: 1 pm

What happens when dance takes place between paintings and sculptures, and works of art provide inspiration for works of performance? This question is answered by dancers of the MiR Dance Company in three short choreographies by Claudia Lantini, Fernando Melo and Olivia Court Mesa that gradually evolve around and between the artworks and the museum architecture. The event is a collaboration between the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen and the MiR Dance Company by Musik im Revier.

Due to limited seating capacity, we kindly ask you to register by email: kunstmuseum@gelsenkirchen.de

Nezaket Ekici

Nexus AT

3 September 2023: 11:30 am

For many years now, the multiple award-winning artist Nezaket Ekici has pursued performative and participatory strategies, working artistically with her body. For the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen Ekici has developed a parkour throughout the building, which she will activate together with the audience. In her performance Nexus AT she combines the idea of a programmatic restart with the desire to forge a living connection between the museum and the people inside and around it.

Claus Richter

A journey into Light

12 January 2024: 18 pm

For considerable time now, Claus Richter has been fascinated by the varied machinery of illusion at the heart of theatre stages, fantasy films and theme parks. Scenery, special effects and the worlds of technical wonder are frequently the subject of his spatial installations. Inspired by the light-kinetic works in the museum’s collection, his most recent lecture performance immerses us in the fantastical world of illumination.

Using numerous examples from the history of film, stage and popular culture, Richter invites the audience to experience the magic of glowing, shimmering and glistening light. For this, a newly constructed light machine will also be put into action.