This catalogue is published for the titled exhibition held at St. Matthäus-Kirche im Kulturforum, Berlin, April to August 2009. It features a project by Hong Kong-born Australian artist John Young that engages the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor, theologian and participant of the German resistance movement against Nazism. Young's artistic intervention in the St. Matthäus church space consists of 14 pieces. The central element is an abstract altarpiece woven in silk, which borrows from the colours of a stained glass window in the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem—one of the oldest African-American churches in the United States—which Bonhoeffer had frequently visited during his brief stay in New York. The religiosity of the congregation and their resistance to racism had a profound impact on Bonhoeffer, and later formed the basis for his passionate struggle against Nazi ideology. Other works featured in the present exhibition include black panels or 'plaques' written on with chalk and edited historic photographs that trace the life of Bonhoeffer from birth to death.

Preface by Christhard-Georg Neubert. Includes selected biography of the artist.