Icons In-Between : Eastern Christian art from border areas (Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Western Balkans, Greece) / edited by Liliya Berezhnaya ; in cooperation with Lutz Rickelt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berezhnaya, Liliya, editor.

Rickelt, Lutz, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Icons--Exhibitions.

Icons.

Christian art and symbolism--Exhibitions.

Christian art and symbolism.

Museen der Stadt Recklinghausen--Exhibitions.

Museen der Stadt Recklinghausen.

Physical Description:

132 pages : illustrations (color) ; 28 cm.

Manufacture:

Bönen : Kettler

Place of Publication:

Rechklinghausen : EIKON, 2025

Notes:

Catalog of the exhibition at the Recklinghausen Icon Museum, January 25 - July 6, 2025

The Icons In-Between exhibition is dedicated to Eastern Church art, highlighting the cultural exchange between East and West from the 15th to the early 20th century. The exhibits mostly originate from the border regions of the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires. In these contact zones, encounters between different religions and denominations significantly influenced ecclesiastical art. This exhibition is the first of its kind and features 39 icons and devotional objects from the Icon Museum in Recklinghausen, as well as from other museums and private collections. Icons In-Between explores the adaptation of iconographic models from Western Europe and the integration of "foreign" themes and motifs into Eastern Christian art. A further focus is the examination of shared cults and associated ritual practices. Additionally, Icons In-Between addresses interactions with Muslim representations of the sacred. The exhibition seeks to demonstrate the shared roots of Christian iconography, the intersections between traditions, the development of specific Eastern Christian iconographic centers, and the networks that connected them over a long historical period. The exhibition and the catalog were funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ORTHPOL project; grant agreement no. 950287), the FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence 'EurAsian Transformations' (Grant-DOI: 10.55776/COE8), and the EIKON Förderverein of the Icon Museum Recklinghausen.

The exhibition, curated by IvOC associate researcher Liliya Berezhnaya, is dedicated to Eastern church artworks that show a cultural exchange between East and West. The icons on display come from the border areas of the Eastern ecclesiastical world between the great empires of the Habsburgs, the Russian Tsarist Empire and the Ottoman Empire. In these contact zones, there were many encounters between different religions and denominations, which also influenced church art.The main aim of Icons In-Between is to unite Christian art studies and the research field of Eastern European border regions to explore the diverse interactions between Eastern and Western iconographic traditions. Another aim was to present Eastern Christian art that feels familiar to a Western audience, as similar iconographic programmes are often found in Catholic churches. Furthermore, the exhibition highlights the common roots of Christian iconography, the intersections between traditions, the development of specific Eastern Christian iconographic centres and the networks connecting them over a long historical period. It also explores interactions with Islamic representations of the transcendent.The project is the first of its kind to use a comparative approach to visual sources. Chronologically, Icons in-between covers the period from the 15th to the 19th century. An English-language exhibition catalogue with contributions from renowned international scholars is currently available. Many of the exhibits are being researched and published here for the first time.The exhibition and catalogue are financed by the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations, supported by the FWF Foundation, Vienna; the Sormani Fund Foundation, Nijmegen; the ERC project 'Orthodoxies and Politics: The Religious Reforms of the Mid-17th Century in Eastern and Southeastern Europe' of the Institute for Research on the Habsburg Monarchy and the Balkans (IHB) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna; the Friends' Association of the Icon Museum EIKON. Also through support from the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (IvOC) in Nijmegen.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Recklinghausen Icon Museum, January 25 - July 6, 2025.

ISBN:

9783910440043

3910440045

OCLC:

1504042153