Chemistry, Coal, Landscape

Franziska Klose

Festival OSTEN, Bitterfeld-Wolfen

2026

The landscape in Bitterfeld-Wolfen is shaped by open-pit lignite mining and the chemical industry. Since 2012, artist and photo­grapher Franziska Klose has repea­tedly explored this (post)industrial landscape. In 2015, her artist’s book “Bitterfeld“ was published. This book served as a guide for a bike tour that took us on an explo­ration of the Bitterfeld area, leading us past former fields, clay pits, and indus­trial and open-pit mining sites. Through this experience, we came to under­stand the landscape as something in a state of constant change. After all: “What we see today will also disappear.” 

The event took place as part of Saxony-Anhalt’s Indus­trial Heritage Day.

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