​​KULTUMUSEUM Graz
Gott hat kein Museum | No Museum Has God​

Where does religion actually figure in contemporary art? For twenty-five years, this question has been Johannes Rauchenberger’s leitmotif in the search for contemporary art at KULTUM. Over the last fifteen years, hundreds of exhibitions have resulted in a collection that is unique in Europe in terms of the intensity with which it asks this question. At steirischer herbst ’25, this collection will be shown for the first time in the newly adapted KULTUM—as a “jubilee exhibition” marking its fiftieth anniversary.

In nine sections, the exhibition explores a gap in the current museum landscape that cannot be filled: a museum for God. His codes, his “iconography,” the contradictions in his images, the faith (or superstition) of his witnesses, the plight of current fundamentalism, the dream of uniting knowledge and faith, and the poetics of getting round “last things” unfold in a wide variety of works on four floors. The attic of the old monastery is also included.