The Invisible Sphere is a body of work initiated from a residential period at Augustiner Chorherrenstift Monastery in Bodensee, where a group of five international artists were invited to research and develop a work responding to Hildegard von Bingen’s ‘Ordo Virtutum’ — an allegorical morality play composed circa 1151, in which virtues and the devil wrestle for a single soul. What emerged from this period was a performative exploration in themes of identity, renunciation and rebellion: expressing an interpretation of Hildegard’s life-work through movement, sound, poetry, film and photography.

Hildegard von Bingen was a radical artist and visionary, who explored far beyond the usual the limitations of spirituality, art and imagination – and whose works still today transport the mind toward places and forms that challenge and inspire our ever evolving relationship with the supernatural. Exploring conflict, disobedience, madness, and the erotic – themes so intrinsically associated with religious experience, yet so rarely permitted to be explicitly depicted or engaged – this project is an adventurous and contemporary interpretation of feminist theological history and iconography.

Developed in collaboration with artists Wolke Milena Wilke, Alexander Weber, Tanit Graffelman Brucart and Britt Angus. With silks by Gemme Atelier.

The Invisible Sphere is supported by Kultur.Konvent.Öhningen, project for the cultural revitalisation of the former Augustinian canons' monastery in Öhningen, Germany. The Invisible Sphere was originally initiated through an international group residency organised by KKÖ in June 2024, and a solo exhibition of the work is forthcoming in August 2025.