AN DIE KUNST GLAUBEN - BELIEVE IN ART

10.5 - 6.09.2026

Group show at Kunstmuseum Thurgau in Switzerland with works by Marina Abramovic, Stéphanie Baechler, Regula Baudenbacher, Ulrich Bleiker, Gabriela Gerber und Lukas Bardill, huber.huber, Hedwig Huser, Martyna Marciniak, Marlies Pekarek, Veronika Spierenburg und Judit Villiger

From cave paintings and church frescoes to NFTs, there has always been a connection between art and faith. Today, some people claim that art has replaced religion. At the museums of the former Ittingen Charterhouse, we are fortunate enough to find both. The exhibition ‘Believing in Art’ presents contemporary art that engages with this tension. While Christian art was intended to reinforce people’s faith through imagery, in the 20th century, the role of art evolved to represent doubt, questioning and nuance rather than faith. Contemporary art sheds a particularly critical light on the potential of art to blur the line between fact and fiction. Art is free to open wide the doors of the imagination, for it is, by definition, a space of freedom. Thus, the exhibition also highlights the fact that art possesses a unique power and significance, which no other discipline can match. One may occasionally ask what relevance art has in light of the state of the world. The answer lies not least in a belief in its power to inspire. Art opens up new spaces and creates alternative realities. We could do things differently: with more colour, variety and wisdom, by asking questions rather than making assertions, and by searching for meaning rather than mere purpose.
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Adress
Kunstmuseum Thurgau
Kartause Ittingen
8532 Warth, CH

PRESS

Press Review Forget Me Not Installation
Article in kM 123 (kunstenaarsmateriaal) 2022 (Text in Dutch)
Taiwan Art Magazine, Artist (since 1975) 2022
Article in St.Galler Tagblatt: Fünf Meter gestickte Ostschweizer Textilgeschichte (Text in German)
Article in Saiten: Der Faden des Schicksals (Text in German)
Article in Saiten: Textilkultur Revisited Download here (Text in German)
Article in Swiss magazine hochparterre.ch , Download here (Text in German)
Interview in tique.art: Six Questions: Stéphanie Baechler
Article in Kunstbulletin 4-2019 about exhibtion at Spazio Lampo, Chiasso CH (Text in Italian)
Granary Interview: The Joy of Learning: Shift is making the creative process fun again