Artistic Director: Viktoria Sophie Conzelmann
Scientific Director: Frederike Lange
Concept, Design & Web Development: Anne Dietzsch
Technical Support: Levi Hepp
Font: Comma Type | Anna Cairns
extractivezones.eu is a trilingual, growing web archive connecting artistic and scientific research on uranium mining in the German-Czech Ore Mountains. It is centered on Johanngeorgenstadt and Jáchymov, both entangled in the histories of uranium‘s discovery, Marie Curie‘s research, Soviet forced labor, and the atomic bomb.
The website is structured across three levels – Underground, Aboveground, and a cosmological-global dimension – each marked by a specific soundscape. Within this architecture, eight chapters unfold across currently one hundred overlapping topics: mining infrastructures, radioactive traces in landscapes and bodies, political repression, terraforming, and more-than-human entanglements.
The archive brings together two years of field research, archival material, contributions from international partners, and an interactive cartography tracing the path of the Soviet atomic bomb from Johanngeorgenstadt to Semipalatinsk.
Funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, German-Czech Future Fund & Chemnitz European Capital of Culture 2025.
Contributors:
Wismut GmbH Archive (GER), DIAMO Archive (CZ), Austrian National Library (AT), NGO Řetízkárna (CZ), Ida Čápová (CZ), Grit Ruhland (GER), Dr. Klára Pinerová (CZ), Dr. Astrid Mignon Kirchhof (GER), Atomic Urbanism (GER), Dr. Nicolaos Olma (GR), Artur Bleischwitz (GER), Hermann Meinel (GER), Dagmar Borchert (GER), Frank Vollert (GER), Stove and Ceramics Museum Velten (GER), Muzeum Karlovy Vary (CZ), Frederike Lange (GER), Viktoria Sophie Conzelmann (GER)
