Exhibition
Take Comfort –
Consolation. Light. Hope

Solo exhibition
13 – 25 November 2025
daily 12:00–19:00
at Ehemalige Karmeliterkirche, Karmeliterstr. 1, Munich

For the first time in Munich, the interactive light and music installation “Take Comfort” can be experienced, inviting visitors to explore questions of grief and consolation, light and hope.
A typewriter offers space to create a collective archive of consolation – a quiet, poetic dialogue between people. The installation is accompanied by the abstract painting series “Resonance” and the portrait series “DO YOU SEE ME”. Special thanks to the Domberg Academy, which initiated and made the exhibition possible.

The exhibition is initiated and organized by the Domberg Academy as part of its seasonal theme “Of small and big farewells.”

Accompanying Program

Vernissage “Words of Consolation”
13 Nov 2025, 7:00–9:30 pm
Words of consolation by Christina Brudereck
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Songs of Consolation
20 Nov 2025, 7:30–9:30 pm
A journey through the tradition of consolation songs with Dr. Alexander Heisig
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Finissage “Paths of Consolation”
25 Nov 2025, 7:00–9:00 pm
Discussion: What consoles us in the face of suffering and mortality?
Panel with philosopher Prof. Dr. Rico Gutschmidt, theologian Dr. Claudia Pfrang, and artist Rebecca Gischel

©Andreas Gregor

What is consolation?
Where do we find it in dark times?
How can it sustain,
understand,
transform the heaviness –
towards – ?

Over several years, Munich-based artist Rebecca Gischel explored different dimensions of consolation, creating experiential spaces in which its traces become tangible –

even
when words
have long
begun
to
stumble.

©Andreas Gregor

From this intense artistic exploration emerged drawings, paintings, and an interactive light and music installation.
The exhibition “Take Comfort – Consolation.Light.Hope” in the former Carmelite Church in Munich brings these different artistic approaches into dialogue and suggests a path –
from forgotten feelings
through the warmth of connection
towards –

the mystery of light?

As a quiet invitation.

With kind support