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The installation "Place. Time. Continuum"

"Place. Time. Continuum." This is the name of Tim Berresheim's first monumental 360°-degree mural, which he created especially for the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum and will continue to be on display there until December 13, 2026.

Viewed through 3D glasses, a vivid panorama of Aachen's city history unfolds, peppered with allusions to art history and personal matters. You can see the cathedral, the Grashaus, the antique façade of the theater. Michelangelo's divine hint from the story of creation in the Sistine Chapel, which brings the expectant Adam to life, is interpreted as the fall from hell: The hand of God meets a fallen angel here. Fittingly, it is tattooed with evil.

An outstanding motif of the mural is the mythological sculpture 'Apollo and Daphne' by the Italian sculptor Filippo Parodi (1630-1702), a work from the collection of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum. The sculpture is a so-called figura serpentinata, a sculpture around which the viewer can walk and thus grasp the work of art in its entirety. Sculptors since the Renaissance wanted to demonstrate their superiority over two-dimensional painting with this "all-pervasiveness". Berresheim's immersive sculpture combines the advantages of sculpture and painting: although it appears "flat" at first glance, you can walk around it completely when viewed through 3D glasses.

The digital data for the motif comes from students at the College vhs Aachen. They selected the sculpture as the starting point for their creative work as part of the project "New strength from old roots" (see below for more information) and scanned it in the course of their work.

In addition to the scan of the sculpture, other results of the "New strength from old roots" project have also been incorporated into the mural, for example countless sheets of paper with drawings by children from the elementary school at Fischmarkt, which flutter through the scenery in clusters. The drawings are an expression of the children's engagement with the urban environment in which they spend time every day. In the course of this, the cartoon character Bibbes, the crumble roll, also developed, a testimony to Aachen's culinary tradition.