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English summary: As part of the anniversary celebrations on the occasion of August Hermann Francke's 350th birthday in 2013, the international art exhibition Gewissheit. Vision. Francke von heute aus gesehen (Certainty. Vision. Francke from today's perspective) curated by Peter Lang (Berlin) and Moritz Goetze (Halle) takes place from September 22nd 2013 to March 23rd 2014. Globally active artists such as Adela Babanova, Marc Bijl, Sergey Bratkov, Esther Ernst, Christian Jankowski, Via Lewandowsky, Gabriel Mache-mer, Christian Niccoli, Serkan Ozkayan and el Seed have studied Francke's ideas and his heritage and have created art works that deal with the key concepts of the anniversary year, 'certainty' and 'vision'. This bilingual exhibition catalog introduces the artists and their works. Brief explanatory texts, photographs as well as texts written by the artists themselves contextualize and provide commentary on the various works. Eight interviews in which experts from various fields each reveal their individual perspective on the exhibition's theme also form part of the exhibition and the catalogue. Based on their own experience they seek out the meanings of the terms 'certainty' and 'vision' and discuss their productive potential. Thus the catalog provides both documentation of and information on the exhibition, yet at the same time it forms a book containing text and illustrations that can stand alone, inviting the reader to look more closely at the artistic works and texts and their related topics. German description: Als Teil der Jubilaumsfeierlichkeiten zum 350. Geburtstag August Hermann Franckes im Jahr 2013 findet vom 22. Sep-tember 2013 bis zum 23. Marz 2014 die internationale Kunstausstellung "Gewissheit. Vision. Francke von heute aus gesehen" der Kuratoren Peter Lang (Berlin) und Moritz Gotze (Halle) statt. International agierende Kunstler wie Adela Babanova, Marc Bijl, Sergey Bratkov, Esther Ernst, Christian Jankowski, Via Lewandow