Exhibition "Golden Picture Worlds" – Julia Bangert

Julia Bangert works for the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, where she hand-decorates the reprints of the famous Gutenberg Bible available in the shop with manuscript illumination and gilding, based on original models. She also works as a freelance manuscript illuminator, designing individually crafted initials, artistically adorned capital letters, and animal depictions. Inspired by historical models, she creates her own works in the medieval style as well as in a contemporary style.

In the exhibition, she presents a manuscript series featuring texts about animals in the style of a medieval bestiary. This is originally a moralizing literary form that connects the characteristics of animals and mythical creatures with Christian teachings on salvation. The artist offers insights into her working process, showing step by step how manuscript illuminations are created. She also presents reproductions of pages from the Gutenberg Bible that she has illuminated herself.

• Opening: Saturday, 25 April 2026, 2:00 pm
• Duration: until 31 October 2026