Turrell Chapel
The Dorotheenstadt Cemetery Memorial Chapel in Berlin, Germany has been reconceptualized by artist James Turrell with a series of light installations. The duality of the chapel existing as a site of mourning, deep reflection, and memorializing the dead with its East German Block rave-like lightshow of an interior is genius. Besides the memorial chapel, the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery holds a monument to Nazi resistance fighters, and is the resting place of a number of 18th and 19th century German cultural figures such as author Bertholt Brecht, philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. This building feels like entering a different realm or dimension, representative of the vigor, beauty, and sheer possibility of creative minds.
