Utopie auf Platte – Archivdialoge #1 – Bauplan Zukunft

Utopie auf Platte is a profound exploration of architectural memory and personal history by artist and social scientist Wenke Seemann. Published by Bierke Verlag in January 2025, this 152-page hardcover book delves into the spatial and visual structures of modernity, tracing Seemann’s journey from her childhood environments to the ruptures of societal transformation, and the fissures within the objects of memory.

Part of the Archivdialoge series, this work transcends genre and media boundaries, engaging in a visual and narrative dialogue between contemporary historical material and personal biography. Through associative research and artistic appropriation, Seemann creates critical and aesthetic reconfigurations manifested as collages, drawings, montages, photographs, and texts. For Seemann, archival work is a process of shifting, overwriting, and deconstructing—not facts, but factuality; not objects, but objectivity.

The book includes a historical-artistic contextualization by Franziska Schmidt and a topo-biographical essay by Annett Gröschner, offering a comprehensive understanding of the intersections between architecture, memory, and identity.

Ideal for readers interested in the interplay of architecture, memory, and personal narrative, Utopie auf Platte offers a unique perspective on the construction of identity through space and history.