Annual Exhibition 2020/2021

Prayer – Conversing with God

Annual Exhibition in the Baroque Hall of the Abbey Library of St Gall
8 December 2020 to 7 November 2021

Prayer is common in most societies. People address God or the Divine. They plead, praise or give thanks, sometimes they lament or even curse.
Because it connects with another world, prayer comes to have a particular freedom of form. In rituals, conversely, it is highly structured and adheres to conventions such as the amen, with which almost every Christian prayer closes.
This year-long exhibition of the Abbey Library illustrates the development of Christian prayer in its many different forms.
It is complemented by Katharina Heigl’s photographic exhibition entitled Faces in Prayer which presents interreligious expressions of prayer.

Exhibition catalogue (German)


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