Gegenwarts-KünstlerInnen reagieren auf Religion: Eine Horizonterweiterung für religiöse Bildung

Abstract

Contemporary art is a broadly secularized discourse within today’s society. However, artists refer to religious topics, signs and symbols, whereas they always carefully avoid to be instrumentalised for religious proclamation. The field of religious education and formation is well advised to decrypt these signs of art sensitively. This article shows analyses of several recently shown pieces of contemporary art which have in common different relations to religious topics (Christoph Büchel, Danh Vo, Kudzanai Chiurai, Berlinde de Brukhyere, Lawrence Carroll, Winter/Hörbelt). They all allow posing questions about dominant religious practices and theological constructions.