Icons on the Move. Treasures from the Bode-Museum, Berlin

The first temporary exhibition at the Icon Museum since its reopening honours the museum’s nearly 30-year collaboration with the Bode-Museum in Berlin (Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art). Set amidst the permanent exhibition, it presents selected icons from the post-Byzantine era from the Bode-Museum’s collection, which have been on permanent loan to the Icon Museum in Frankfurt am Main since 1999. The exquisitely crafted, predominantly small-format icons of the Mother of God, the life and passion of Jesus Christ, and selected saints – which were intended for private worship – enter into dialogue with the permanently exhibited icons in the exhibition space, many of which originate from ecclesiastical contexts.