Exhibition “Cornucopia”

The exhibition explores the concept of the cornucopia through the diversity, research, and interpretation of the collections of the art museum, highlighting the museum’s openness to change and its responses to the socio-political situation. The display is mostly based on works of art that have either been inaccessible to visitors for decades or have never been exhibited before.

The exhibition is structured along two parallel lines: the symbolism of the cornucopia in different cultures and religions – namely the ancient Greek and Roman world, Christianity in Europe, and Asian art – and an inquiry into the museum as an institution. Painting, graphic art, sculpture, decorative and applied arts, and numismatics are the media through which the narrative of the exhibition is developed and questions are raised – questions for which there may not yet be clear answers in our rapidly changing world.