In this exhibition, conceived as a free thinking space, the Ten Commandments are not subjected to theological considerations, but are reflected in images, artefacts and texts in an open manner. The methodological model is Krysztof Kieslowski's ten-part film series on the Decalogue from 1988/89, which he described as follows: "I have made a kind of game with the viewer my rule. I say to him: DEKALOG, EINS. He watches the film and then he wants to find out what it means. He starts looking for the commandment. Whether he wants to or not, he forces himself to make a certain intellectual effort. And I want him to make that effort because I take the viewer seriously."
"When thinking about the horrendous discrepancy between the pious set of rules and our disinhibited, secular present, dubiousness became the normal companion of this endeavour. We lived in the certainty that the social and political events of those years would help us to explore the apocalyptic dissonance of our present through the media. What carried us was the desire to play an associative game."
- EUGEN BLUME - in the opening speech
Eugen Blume spoke at the opening on Friday, 6 September 2019.
Works by Anna and Bernhard Blume, Josef Beuys, Barbara Klemm, Heiner Müller, Julian Röder, Klaus Staeck, Guido van der Werve, Remi Zaugg and others were shown.
The exhibition was a translation of the exhibition series of the same name in the Guardini Gallery - a project by Eugen Blume, Matthias Flügge, Frizzi Krella and Mark Lammert, created as a cooperation between the Guardini Foundation and the St Matthew's Foundation, the cultural foundation of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia.
