Bettina Pelz is an expert curator in light art due to her extensive and long-standing involvement in light and light-based media art since the 1990s. She has been developing and realizing art-in-context projects for public spaces and cultural heritage environments internationally, with a focus on light as an artistic material and media since 1999. She has an academic background and has lectured extensively across Europe on the subject of light in the fine arts. Her expertise also encompasses research, writing, and curatorial practice, with a focus on light and media art in diverse cultural contexts worldwide.
RECENT PROJECTS
2025 Houmt Souk (tn)
SEE DJERBA Media Art Festival
2025 Luedenscheid (de)
LICHTROUTEN Festival of Light
2024/2025 Innsbruck (at)
BERGSILVESTER (3D Mappings)
2024 Brixen / Neustift (it)
WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL
CURATORIAL PRATICE
Since 2002 International
Curator with focus on light and light-based media
Since 1996 National
Curator with focus on art-in-context
1993 – 1996 Hagen (de)
WERKHOF Socio-cultural Center: Artistic Director
1988 – 1993 Ahlen (de)
SCHUHFABRIK Socio-cultural Center: Artistic Director
TEACHING
2025 – 2026 Tunis (tn)
ZAKHAM Momentum for Contemporary Culture
MOMENTUM CURATORIAL Directing the art-in-context program
2019 – 2022 Tunis (tn)
GOETHE INSTITUT TUNIS and partners
TASAWAR CURATORIAL STUDIOS Directing the post-graduate study program
2015 – 2017 Saarbruecken (de)
UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS
Visiting Professor: Light in Fine Arts
Since 2004 Bremen (de)
UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
Lecturer with Special Assigments: Professionalization in the Arts
STUDIES
1984 – 1988 Muenster (de)
UNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES: Philosophy & Social Pedagogics: Diploma
LINKS
bettinapelz.de
arsphotonica.net
@kunstpelz
FEATURED IMAGE
Lars Gonikman