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Until mid-October, our exhibition “Tangible delicate” shows the glass, metal and alabaster sculptures of the renowned Berlin sculptor Susanne Roewer. With a high degree of sensuality and irrepressible power, the artist creates works that seem primordial and futuristic at the same time. The dream-like figures combine pressing political-social themes with religious and literary references. Sometimes her installations are light and airy, characterised by transparency and a shimmering sheen, sometimes they are iron and heavy, firmly adhering to the ground. They show the viewer a world outside the everyday, where opposites meet and living things are created from inorganic matter.

For the exhibition’s finissage on Saturday, 14 October at 5 p.m., Susanne Roewer will once again come to Rottenburg for a cosy evening with film derby. A series of short films and film snippets of an artistic nature are shown in the museum. There is time for snacks and a glass of wine before, between and after the films.

Image caption:
Christian Bahrmann, Wolfgang Schilke and Susanne Roewer
Film still: Between two cups of coffee
(n. y.)

Ideas of what is sacred have always sought and continue to seek the proximity of the language of art in order to articulate themselves. The “sacred” can initially be understood very openly – with the sociologist of religion Hans Joas as that which can in some way take hold, that which is able to pull individuals or communities beyond themselves. And in such experiences of “self-delimitation or self-exaggeration” then lies an “affective certainty”: a certainty in which – “binding force” develops “whose strength goes beyond everyday experiences” (Hans Joas, Die Macht des Heiligen, 2017, p. 434).

Art can therefore be understood as opening a sensual access to the permanently nonsensual sacred, evoking in a corporeal-material sense, paradoxically representing the transcendent: in its unrepresentability. Art that sees itself in this way is always more than a visual or perceptual object. Their works are powerful media and make themselves and something OTHER appear. They awaken imagination and imagination that goes beyond what is shown, they construct, envision, stage and iconise. That which is thus represented is present and absent at the same time: traces … traces.

The Reichenau Artists’ Days 2023, for which the Kunstverein der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart is responsible, will go in search of traces through listening, seeing, exchanging and reflecting. A search for traces, which the conference will by no means lead to a goal, but which should perhaps be opened at the very beginning. The programme sketches a possible horizon of such a common search for traces and wants to inspire to get involved in corresponding paths.

The preparation team and the board are looking forward to being together in Hersberg. We also welcome the members of the Community of Christian Artists from the Archdiocese of Freiburg.

For further information on registration and the programme, please see the attached flyer.

Image caption:
Marie Lienhard
Video still: gold explosion (Excerpt)
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

Für das Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt

eine Museumsaufsicht (m/w/d)

(in Teilzeit 40%, derzeit 15,8 Wochenstunden)

befristet bis 31.07.2024

Das Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg beherbergt sakrale Kunst vom 2. bis 21. Jahrhundert, darunter Werke von europäischem Rang. Neben den Gemälden und Skulpturen des Mittelalters, des Barock und der Moderne, verfügt die Sammlung über herausragende Zeugnisse der Metallkunst, hochwertige Paramente, eine in Umfang und Qualität einzigartige Sammlung von historischen Gläsern, zahlreiche Grafiken, Münzen- und Medaillen sowie vielfältige Zeugnisse der religiösen Volksfrömmigkeit.

Ihre Aufgaben sind insbesondere:

• Aufsicht im Museumsraum
• Betreuung des Kassenbereichs mit Museumsshop
• Besucherinformation und Besucherleitung
• Flexibler Einsatz bei Sonderveranstaltungen (z. B. Getränkeausschank)

Sie bringen mit:

• Interesse am Kulturbetrieb
• Zuverlässigkeit
• Kontakt- und Kommunikationsfreude
• Teamfähigkeit
• Flexibilität
• Fremdsprachenkenntnisse wären von Vorteil
• Bereitschaft, sich in Kenntnisse zur Sammlung einarbeiten zu lassen

Wir bieten Ihnen ein abwechslungsreiches Tätigkeitsfeld und die im öffentlichen Dienst üblichen Sozialleistungen wie z.B. Zusatzversorgung aus der ZVK. Das Angestelltenverhältnis richtet sich nach der Arbeitsvertragsordnung der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart (AVO-DRS), vergleichbar dem Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes der Länder (TV-L). Die Eingruppierung erfolgt in Entgeltgruppe 2.

Die Identifikation mit der katholischen Kirche und die Zugehörigkeit zu einer Kirche der christlichen Kirchen (ACK) setzen wir voraus.

Schwerbehinderte Menschen werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt berücksichtigt.

Ihre Bewerbung richten Sie bitte per Mail/per Post bis zum 31.10.2023 an das Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg, Karmeliterstraße 9, 72108 Rottenburg. Ihre Ansprechpartnerin ist Frau Dr. Melanie Prange, Telefon 07472/ 922-181, E-Mail mprange@bo.drs.de. Für Fragen zum Arbeitsrecht steht Ihnen Frau Birgit Saile-Leins, Telefon 07472/169-650, E-Mail  bisaileleins@bo.drs.de  zur Verfügung.

We take a trip into the exciting world of the Middle Ages and explore the paintings of the Diocesan Museum.

In the process, we learn all kinds of strange stories, colours and materials. Afterwards, we will build a stretcher frame out of wood and canvas and make our own paints – of course, we can also paint with them.

For children 8–10 years

When: Saturday, 05 August 2023, 11.00 – 14.00 hrs

Meeting point: Diocesan Museum Rottenburg,

We “sniff” through the museum and then go together to the KunstGasse: all children can also be picked up there. You will find the entrance to our KunstGasse directly to the left of the Theo bookshop (Karmeliterstr. 2, Rottenburg).

Cost: Free admission to the museum. Material contribution: 6 euros per person.

Please bring a snack and something to drink: A snack and something to drink, clothes that can get dirty.

Currently there are still a few places available.

Feel free to contact the museum if you would like to have a little adventure with brush and paint. We look forward to seeing you!

What is behind the Mary in St. Michael in Tübingen?

In St Michael’s there have been considerations for some time to replace the figure of Mary in the church – after all, according to the conviction of some, it is not a representation of Mary. So that the congregation and the parish council can form their own opinion, Dr Melanie Prange, diocesan curator and director of the Diocesan Museum Rottenburg, will report on representations of Mary throughout history and the connections with the image of women at the time.

Place: Parish Hall St. Michael

Date: 13 June 2023, 7.15 pm

Photo: Madonna with crown and sceptre, 2nd half of 18th century, Hohenheim, St. Antonius, © Diözesanmuseum, Fachstelle Kunstinventarisierung