Reliktinstallation 6-Tage-Spiel 1998 in Faith No More. Rituals for Uncertain Times.
24.10.2025 - 01.03.2026 Abby
Kortrijk (B)
Faith No More. Rituals for Uncertain Times is an exhibition about apocalyptic thinking, despair, hope, and consolation in the Middle Ages and today, featuring live work by Tino Sehgal in de Kapel and works by Hermann Nitsch, Marina Abramović, Francis Alÿs, Joseph Beuys, Michaël Borremans, Miriam Cahn, Lucas Cranach I, Thierry De Cordier, Albrecht Dürer, Marlene Dumas and many others in the galleries.
We are living in uncertain times. Climate change, wars, tensions between countries, rapid technological shifts and social unrest leave many feeling lost. At times, it seems as though we are sliding into an apocalyptic vision of the future. This echoes the late Middle Ages, when people saw their world as chaotic, threatening and unstable — and surrendered to higher powers in search of guidance.
For centuries, religion offered a framework to understand life. It provided direction and comfort, but also imposed dogmas and exclusion. Faith was the way to create order in an often incomprehensible reality. Today, that self-evident role of religion has largely disappeared. We live in a secular and fragmented society. Where do we now find new forms of grounding, connection and hope? How do we give our fears and desires a place?
This exhibition departs from that search. It shows how artists, past and present, grapple with uncertainty and fear, how they shape grand narratives and intimate rituals, and how art can offer new perspectives for collective grounding. Perhaps the key to our time lies not in ready-made answers, but in searching, experiencing, and imagining together what it means to be human in a world full of change.
Descend into the underground galleries and immerse yourself in late medieval and contemporary art about doom and dawn, despair and consolation. Above ground, in de Kapel, live work by Tino Sehgal awaits you — a transitional ritual between the world inside and the world outside. A sensory and emotionally charged experience that cannot be captured on camera: what remains is only your memory — intimate, temporary, and unrepeatable.
Faith No More. Rituals for Uncertain Times is curated by Sarah Keymeulen and Klara Rowaert in collaboration with co-curator Kendell Geers.
Hermann Nitsch
Faith No More. Rituals for Uncertain Times
Abby Kortrijk
Hermann Nitsch - Ritual
14.05.2016 - 04.02.2017 nitsch museum
Mistelbach (AT)
The exhibition HERMANN NITSCH – RITUAL at the nitsch museum in Mistelbach (AT) focusses on the signification of rituals in religion and art in the work of Hermann Nitsch.
The yearly 'Pfingstfest' takes place at Schloss Prinzendorf (AT) on Pentecost Sunday 15 May 2016 and starts at 13:00.
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