
How does religion actually appear in contemporary art? For 25 years, this question has been a leitmotif of Johannes Rauchenberger in the search for contemporary art at KULTUM. Over the last 15 years, hundreds of exhibitions have resulted in a collection that is unique in Europe in terms of the intensity of this question. In steirischer herbst 25, this will be shown for the first time in the newly adapted KULTUM—as an ‘anniversary exhibition’ to mark its 50th birthday. In nine sections, the exhibition explores a desideratum in current museum operations that can neither be fulfilled nor claimed per se: a museum for God. His codes, his ‘iconography’, the contradictions in his images, the (super)faith of his witnesses, the plight of current fundamentalism, the dream of uniting knowledge and faith and the poetics of coming to terms with ‘ultimate things’ unfold in a wide variety of works on four floors. The attic of the old monastery is also included. More >>