Irrealigious! The parallel world of religion in art

73% exhibition 21% religion 6% doubt

Since the beginning of the 21st century, religion has been experiencing an unexpected comeback: 9/11, debates about headscarves, crucifixes and relativism, the cartoon controversies, the grammar of fundamentalism and violence have thrown politics, courts and even intellectual value hierarchies into a state of turmoil. At the same time, the call for values and the often vague fear of “doing away with oneself” is growing louder. But how does current art react to such religious debates?
“Irrealigious!” brings together artistic positions in the intersecting field of belief systems, works that focus as much on revelations as on the vacuum of an unassimilated present, and thus testify to a return of religion in art – a return along the thin line between fear of disoriented secularisation on the one hand and totalitarian theocracies on the other.