Adunni Olorisa brings the visionary power of Susanne Wenger's work to life in a new way: an exhibition about spirituality, artistic transformation, and the boundaries between individual vision and collective interpretation of the world.
The exhibition focuses on the extraordinary artist Susanne Wenger, whose work has always been situated between visual art, ritual, and spiritual exploration. Wenger developed a distinctive visual language in which signs, symbols, and organic forms merge into a world of perception and experience that transcends the purely visual. Her art is an expression of a deep connection with metaphysical processes and invites us to understand perception as a dialogical event between the inner world and world events.
Adunni Olorisa offers insight into this contemplative power: in the rooms of the Halle für Kunst Steiermark, wall works, objects, and immersive arrangements enter into a resonance space that encourages visitors not only to passively perceive images, but to experience them as living forces. The exhibition thus creates an atmosphere in which artistic form and spiritual imagination interact directly.
Susanne Wenger at the entrance to the Ilé Alájere and Ọbàtálá shrines in the sacred grove of Ọ̀ṣun Òṣogbo, Nigeria Photo: Gerhard Merzeder / Susanne Wenger Foundation
The focus is not only on form, but also on the question of meaning, transcendental experience, and cultural translation. In her works, Wenger negotiates corporeal and cosmic levels; she explores the interactions between individual creativity and universal images that are considered meaningful in different cultures.
Through this approach, Adunni Olorisa opens up an expanded space for thought: art becomes a practice of remembering, transforming, and perceiving beyond the obvious. Visitors are invited to engage with this polyphonic visual world and explore its deep layers of expression, belief, and artistic intuition.
February 7 to April 19, 2026
