Public Tour at the Museum of Sepulchral Culture: Experience Timm Ulrichs in Kassel

An Evening for Conceptual Art and Thinking About the End

At the Museum of Sepulchral Culture in Kassel, a public tour focuses on the work of Timm Ulrichs. The occasion is his death in early May 2026. An artistic work will be shown and explained, which explores the boundaries between sculpture, performance, conceptual art, and existential self-questioning like few others.

Timm Ulrichs as Total Artist

Timm Ulrichs, born in 1941, is one of the defining figures of German conceptual art. His work combines multimedia strategies with performative intensification. Ulrichs staged art not as a mere object but as a space for thought: as a stance, as provocation, as a precise examination of perception, body, and transience.

His works and actions, in which the artist made his own awareness of finitude visible, became famous. These include spectacular self-experiments, as well as a consistent artistic self-placement. The tour thus opens not only a view of an individual grave marker but of a complete oeuvre that is anchored in art history between Dada, conceptual art, and performance language.

The Upside-Down Hollow Body Monument II

At the center is the Upside-Down Hollow Body Monument II, one of the first grave markers of the artist necropolis at the Blue Lake near Kassel. The body cast in bronze is buried upside down; the view falls through the soles of the feet into the interior of the figure. This creates an image of emptiness and presence at the same time. The shell preserves the space that the body once occupied and transforms it into a monument of silent, radical consequence.

Especially in the atmosphere of the Museum of Sepulchral Culture, this work gains special intensity. It combines tomb, sculpture, and culture of remembrance into an aesthetic experience that resonates long after. Those who engage with the tour experience art history not abstractly, but spatially, bodily, and sensually condensed.

The Museum as a Place of Mediation

The Museum of Sepulchral Culture sees itself as a cultural-historical and scientifically working institution with a special focus on dying, mourning, remembrance, and death culture. The permanent exhibition traces the development of grave marker culture from the Middle Ages to the present. Complementary educational offerings, tours, and educational programs make the museum a place where cultural education and artwork examination go hand in hand.

Organizationally, the museum also offers good conditions for visiting: The exhibition is accessible with minimal barriers, an elevator connects all levels, and the regular museum information clearly supports a well-planned visit in Kassel.

Conclusion

This tour is more than a memorial date. It invites visitors to see Timm Ulrichs as one of the most important German conceptual and action artists anew and to experience his work in dialogue with sepulchral culture. Those looking for art with intellectual depth, linguistic precision, and spatial tension should not miss this evening in Kassel.

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Sources:

• Museum of Sepulchral Culture - Public Tour in Memory of Timm Ulrichs
• Museum of Sepulchral Culture - Visit, Admission Prices, Tours, Access and Accessibility
• Museum of Sepulchral Culture - Home
• Museum of Sepulchral Culture - Permanent Exhibition
• LWL Museum of Art and Culture - Timm Ulrichs
• documenta - Timm Ulrichs 1940-2026