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“Dive and Run” is the paradox title of a multimedia art exhibition conceived by German artist and curator Matthias Deumlich and opening at freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL on March 6. The contradictory image of diving and running is meant to express the need to slow down and reflect in the midst of all the fast-paced world surrounding us.

Featuring works by eleven artists, including Ingeborg Lüscher, Alexandra Ranner, Costantino Ciervo, Edgar Leciejewski, and Ingolf Keiner, the show take a critical, poetical, humorous, and ironic look at existential questions and problems of our time.

“‘Dive and Run’ is the first of three major exhibitions to be shown at freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL in 2013,” says Dr. Christian Strasser, director of the MuseumsQuartier Wien. “It continues the successful series of exhibitions organized in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs that last year attracted some 54,000 visitors.”

Works on view include the video “Meta-Atem: Über Inspiration und Exspiration” by Timm Ulrichs, in which the artist finds a poignant image for the tragic fact that life always means successively working on its dissipation and disappearance.

Ingeborg Lüscher playfully and convincingly demonstrates how similar the situation on the soccer field is to life at the upper management levels. In both cases, people play hardball, commit fouls, and suffer injuries. While the wounds on the playing field are obvious, in the world of business they mostly remain invisible.

As part of the quartier21/MQ Artist-in-Residence program, Una Szeemann and Bohdan Stehlik produced a work specially conceived for the exhibition on the topic “Terra Nullius – no man’s land.”
Robert Jacobsen’s “drum-cymbal-mobile” rotates above it all, floating almost. A sound object with a little fan, it represents the concept of delay in a very direct way. A gentle tapping on the cymbal and big drum communicates across the space with another sound video object by Jacobsen.

The program accompanying the exhibition includes a reading with actor and director Lore Stefanek, who is currently producing a play at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, and a workshop for children led by Matthias Deumlich.

Dive and Run
Mar 6 to Apr 24, Tue to Sun, 13:00-19:00, free admission
Press preview: Wed, Mar 6, 10:00
Opening: Wed, Mar 6, 19:00
Location: freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL/MuseumsQuartier Wien
www.quartier21.at