Exhibitions

Through a series of video installations, visitors will encounter images of Christ from different historical periods and discover the iconographic connections linking early Christianity, Byzantine icons, Renaissance art, and contemporary visual culture. The central focus of the exhibition is the image of the Merciful Jesus and its relationship to the Shroud of Turin.

Eglė Ridikaitė’s exhibition, through an unexpected artistic ges¬ture, weaves together sites of faith, painful historical experienc¬es, and a sense of present vulnerability. With striking clarity, serenity, and simplicity, Depositions unfolds as a silent yet con¬ceptually dense narrative about the city. It invites us to experi-ence, simultaneously, the layered histories of prewar Jewish and Christian Vilnius, while tracing processes of survival and extinc¬tion, life and its erasure in memory.

The exhibition playfully presents the pilgrims' routes and the curiosities associated with the journey, revealing the goals that invited the pilgrims to embark on their distant and dangerous route. On a large map, visitors can move mobile figures towards their chosen destination and see the extensive network of pilgrimage ways that has developed since early Christianity, as well as ring a bell to invite fellow pilgrims, smell the scent of real incense, get the seal of the place they are visiting, peer into the doors of the Jubilee Basilicas, see what pilgrims took on their journey, the dangers and rest stops that awaited them. Young visitors will be able to obtain a "Pilgrim's Passport", which not only has space for stamps, but also includes puzzles and tasks.