Gelsenkirchen Museum of Art  The foundations for Germany’s largest collection of kinetic art were already being laid in the 1950s during the early stages of this museum with the acquisition of works by members of the ZERO group (Heinz Mack and Günther Uecker). The exhibition offers a documentary overview of the development of kinetic art from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present day. Visual pieces of "op art" are on display as well as delicate aesthetic mobiles, motor-driven works set off by hidden mechanisms and electric impulses as well as pieces of light and sound kinetics.

A main focus of the collection is the work of Anton Stankowski who was born in Gelsenkirchen and is one of the most renowned graphic designers of our time. The collection includes, in addition to designs and drawings, photography, print and paint works. Examples of work of constructivist and representative art are also on display by members of these schools such as Victor Vasarely, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Heinrich Siepmann.

The museum owns a collection of paintings and sculptures dating from the end of the 19th century to the present day. Works by German impressionists and expressionists including Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Otto Mueller and Emil Nolde are exhibited here. In addition to surrealist works from René Magritte, Max Ernst and Franz von Radziwill, new realism pieces, including several by Gerhard Richter as well as informel and representative painting, are on display. The museum also owns numerous top-class examples of graphic art by artists including Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. Exhibitions of renowned kinetic and constructivist artists can be viewed along with exhibitions by the Gelsenkirchen Kunstverein (art association).