Weites Feld
Bachelor diploma in Knowledge Visualization, 2025
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 work “Weites Feld” (Too Far Afield) explores cemeteries through drawings from various municipal and church cemeteries in the DACH countries. It documents the human traces found there, juxtaposing the findings and observations, creating new perspectives and narratives. It takes a careful look at the simultaneity of life and death, beauty and sadness, order and chaos. 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 the 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
Mentoring and support: Karin Seiler, Simone Stolz, Ulrike Meyer Stump, Friedrich-W. Graf.
Marker/Fineliner/Colored pencil
- Calla lily in the trash at forest cemetery Lauheide, Münster
- Stickers on gravestones at various cemeteries
- Watering cans at Hallesches Tor cemeteries, Berlin
- Book prototype
- Flowers at Eichbühl cemetery, Zurich
- Finds at Waldfriedhof Lauheide
- Finds at Hallesches Tor cemeteries