亞 歐堂 meet asian art: The awakened one

The cabinet exhibition "亞 歐堂 meet asian art: The Awakened One" presents pictorial works from China, Thailand, Tibet and Korea, representing one and a half millennia of Buddhist art in Asia. The objects exhibited here have been kept in the Museum Angewandte Kunst for up to eighty years. Most of the exhibits are stone sculptures and bronze sculptures. In addition to up to life-size portraits or fragments, modest testimonies to the visual culture of Buddhism are also presented, such as miniature altars from China in the Sui (589-618 AD) and Tang (618-907 AD) periods as well as small, sometimes only air-dried votive tablets made of clay, which are still placed in sacred places today.