Overview

The GOLDSTÜCKE light art projects are an event organized by the City of Gelsenkirchen’s Department of Culture. They have been held regularly since 2019. From 2 – 6 OCT 2024, the last edition of GOLDSTÜCKE took place in Gelsenkirchen-Buer.

GOLDSTÜCKE Parcours

At the GOLDSTÜCKE festival, art projects are on display throughout the city center of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. They all work with light or light-based media, they use fluorescent materials such as fluorescence, halogen, laser or LED as well as the dialogical properties of light such as light and shadow, reflection and transparency, the light-drawing media of photography and film as well as digital media.

Special features in 2024 included the DIPLOPIA Open Call and the GOLDSTÜCKE YOUNG MASTERS program.

DIPLOPIA Open Call

Regular locations include the Goldbergpark, the Kunstmuseum, the Robinienhof, the Schauburg, St. Urbanus, the Werkstatt für Kunst und Kultur, etc. All artists choose locations that they also see as part of their artistic material. All positions are either developed for the location or adapted to fit it perfectly. The project name refers to the inner-city green space “Goldbergpark”, which was the central location in the early years.

GOLDSTÜCKE YOUNG MASTERS

Bettina Pelz is the artistic director. The internationally active curator from the Ruhr region specializes in light in the visual arts and has been developing art projects in public spaces for 25 years.

2019 — 2022

The GOLDSTÜCKE Light Art Festival was founded in 2019 by the City’s Cultural Department and has been developed until 2022 in close cooperation with the Artmuseum Gelsenkirchen.