The 2024 summer of football will see the first ever cooperation between the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen and the football museum of FC Schalke 04. At the invitation of the Kunstmuseum, artist Peter Piller (*1968) combines exhibits from both museums, his own photographs and other objects related to local club football to produce a richly layered exhibition experience.
His extensive research in Gelsenkirchen took the artist and football aficionado amongst other places inside the Schalke Museum and to the “Schalke Mile”, a road in the city’s district of the same name devoted to local football traditions. Key elements of the project derive from encounters with celebrated stars of FC Schalke 04, as well as with people who live out their passion for Schalke in private, far from the media hype and commercial glare of the football world. Drawing on his own material and collected memorabilia, Peter Piller’s exhibition tells a personal and, at times, bizarre history of the club and fan culture generated by football in the Ruhr region.
13 June - 4 August 2024
Sunday, 4 August 2024, 3 pm
Tandem tour through the exhibition with Yves Eigenrauch, former professional footballer of Schalke 04 and lender to the exhibition and Julia Höner, director Kunstmuseum
