Ad Reinhardt featured in THE PROBLEM OF GOD

The exhibition THE PROBLEM OF GOD explored the multifaceted and ambivalent ways in which contemporary artists incorporate elements of Christian iconography—which are omnipresent in our collective visual and textual memory—into their work. A remarkable number of these artworks resist a straightforward reading of Christian signs and symbols through complex narratives and images in which the artists engage with Christian motifs and themes in a differentiated and profound manner. 
 
For some years now, there has been talk of a return of the religious in art. Without a doubt, religion is a theme that can be found everywhere in today’s politics and media—not so much as a theological but as a socio-political phenomenon. Even outside the church, Christian ethical values continue to define views on many social issues in our socio-political system; they are an undeniable part of our culture and history. This exhibition focused on artworks that reflect critically on Christian images and themes, transforming and transposing them by giving them new substance or combining them with new visual aesthetic practices. Included in the exhibition was Ad Reinhardt, whose works explore how that which cannot be represented or seen can be transformed into something comprehensible through a sublime and transcendental experience. 
 
Featured artists: Georges Adéagbo, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Francis Alÿs, Francis Bacon, Michaël Borremans, Pavel Büchler, Andrea Büttner, Flávio de Carvalho, Paul Chan, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Tacita Dean, Andrew Esiebo, Harun Farocki, Katharina Fritsch, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Emma Kay, Hubert Kiecol, Katarzyna Kozyra, Little Warsaw, Thomas Locher, Kris Martin, Aernout Mik, Boris Mikhailov, Santu Mofokeng, Hermann Nitsch, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Rosemberg Sandoval, James Turrell, Bill Viola, Paloma Varga Weisz, Danh Võ, and Aby Warburg.