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Weites Feld


Bachelor diploma in Knowledge Visualization, 2025
The work “Weites Feld” (Wide Field) explores the quiet culture of cemeteries through drawings from various municipal and church cemeteries in the DACH countries. It documents the human traces found in cemeteries, demonstratively juxtaposing the findings and observations, thereby creating new perspectives and narratives. In doing so, it takes a careful look at the simultaneity of life and death, beauty and sadness, order and chaos.

Germany has more than 32,000 cemeteries. What do we do there? What do we leave behind? They are public spaces, maintained and brought to life and at the same time abandoned and forgotten. The project portrays cemeteries as a cultural practice and takes up the complex debate about their relevance, use, and design. It shows the diversity of individual expressions of human needs for location and creation.

The result is a story about closeness and transience, consisting of 60+ illustrations and a book prototype in hot pink.

The book is currently exhibited at the museum for sepulchral culture in Kassel.

Mentoring and support: Karin Seiler, Simone Stolz, Ulrike Meyer Stump, Friedrich-W. Graf

Marker/Fineliner/Colored pencil

Project on ZHdK course website


  1. Calla lily in the trash, forest cemetery Lauheide, Münster
  2. Stickers on gravestones, various cemeteries
  3. Watering cans, Hallesches Tor cemeteries, Berlin
  4. Book prototype
  5. Flowers, Eichbühl cemetery, Zurich
  6. Finds, Hallesches Tor cemeteries, Berlin
  7. Finds, Waldfriedhof Lauheide






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ant
anatomy


Anatomy of the bullet ant, 2024
Visualizations for a study of the male genitalia of Paraponera clavata by Brendon E. Boudinot at the Senckenberg Research Institute Frankfurt a. M., section Entomology II.

Visuals based on micro CT-Scans.

Dragonfly/VG Studio/Blender/Adobe Illustrator

Research article (open access)

  1. Volume render of the genital sclerites and musculature
  2. Polygon surface mesh
  3. Volume renders of the volsellar musculature
  4. Volume renders of the male internal genitalia

  6. Sticker for the research group 



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Oh snap!


Anatomy of the pincer wasp, 2024
Visualization of the highly specialized claw mechanism of pincer wasps (Dryinidae). “Science2Science” Module at ZHdK.

Visuals based on micro CT scans, unpublished Data, Boudinot et. al. 

MeVisLab/Blender/Cinema4D/Adobe After Effects

Poster in collaboration with Flurina Hess.

  1. Claws of Gonatopus opening and closing
  2. Science poster
  3. Surface polygon meshes from CT-Scans of various claw types
  4. Animation of the mechanism





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horse skeleton


Anatomical Model of the horse, 2023
Revision, correction and improvement of a 3D model of the horse skeleton. The veterinarian-approved result will be used as a 3D printed model for educational purposes.

With Enrico Bachmann for Equifine and the Vetsuisse faculty of the University of Zurich.

Cinema4D/InDesign

  1. Assembled skeleton, Poster
  2. Disassembled skeleton, Poster
  3. Cervical vertebrae, spinal disks and skull
  4. Animation
  5. Sketches, anatomical collection of the Vetsuisse faculty
  6. Sketches of the leg joints, anatomical collection of the Vetsuisse faculty


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pitcher plant


3D Model of Nepenthes rafflesiana, 2022
A carnivorous pitcher plant, unfortunately named after a colonialist, modelled and texturised from scratch.

Cinema4D/Adobe Photoshop

  1. 3D Model
  2. Preparatory Sketches
  3. Animation loop
  4. Figure 1 in use
  5. Prey caught in the pitcher 🐜

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3D 


Graveyard Experiments, 2022 –

Cinema4D

  1. Teapot attempt 
  2. Photogrammetry of a taxidermied ibis that didn’t capture its feet
  3. Digital avatar concept
  4. Watery cube
  5. Sadness
  6. Progress
  7. Anger


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2D animation


Animation projects, 2023

After Effects

  1. Looping animation, can be split into separate short loops. Vimeo
  2. Eye loop
  3. Depression, but funky
  4. Loop referencing the Nine of Swords in the Rider–Waite tarot deck
  5. Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) catching and killing prey

  7. Strawberry
  8. Strawberries
  9. More strawberries




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oil painting


2022 –  

oil on hardboard

  1. Plein air in Tschierv, Grisons CH, 2022
  4. Plein air in Cumpadials, Grisons CH, 2024
  5. Plein air in Cumpadials, Grisons CH, 2023

  7. Greetings from Tschierv, Grisons CH, 2022
  8. Study of artificial light, 2024
  9. Study of artificial light, 2024
  10. Carrera Street, St. Augustine FL, 2024
  11. State Road 100, East Palatka FL, 2024
  12. Cow, 2023
  13. Calf, 2023


about


Katja Knoellinger
(Scientific) illustration, animation, 3D

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2021 – 2025 Design: Knowledge Visualization (BA) 
    2016 – 2021 Geoecology – Environmental Sciences (BSc)

Nuremberg DE, Zurich CH

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