OSTRALE O13

we cross the rubicon

5.7.-15.9.2013
63 days
86 artists
15 nationalities
15,000 m² exhibition space indoors
50,000 m² exhibition space outdoors
18,000 visitors
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"Who crosses the rubicon" has made a decision; one sees the way and the finish line clearly and lets nobody get in one's way. To use the power of art for the development of society, this is our objective. Therefore, we checked our positions critically and set out towards new shores.

The prologue of 2013 applies to ourselves: we should consider ourselves as well as become aware of the perception from the outside. How is art able to create a dialogue with politics and science, the individual and society? Which new perspectives is this dialogue able to open?

It is about making fractures and limits visible no matter if of typographical, physical, linguistic or mental nature. How much power possesses art and which resources is it using when it comes to overcome and dissolve borders.

Exhibition venues: the Western and Eastern feeding stalls, the donkey shed, the outlands and House 11 in the historical Erlwein slaughterhouse of Dresden, Messe Dresden, Hotel Maritim, Pumpenhaus, OBERÜBER KARGER

Jurors: Andrea Hilger (artistic director), Moritz Stange (artistic director), Patrick-Daniel Baer (gallery owner, Dresden), Knut Hartwich (gallery owner, Sellin/Rügen), Friedrich Loock (gallery owner, Berlin), Jens Zander (architect, collector and artistic patron, Dresden), Chloé Coomans (Visual artist and award recipient of OSTRALE O 12, Belgium)

Curators: Knut Hartwich (gallery owner, Sellin/Rügen), Friedrich Loock (gallery owner, Berlin), Moritz Stange (artistic director)

2. cool silicon art award organized for Cool Silicon e.V. at the Messe Dresden

Artists and artist groups of OSTRALE O13

Adidal Abou-Chamat (DE), Jo Albert (DE), Cirillo Albrecht (DE/AT), Paul Altmann (DE), Elfi Anderegg (CH), Axel Anklam (DE), Christian Awe (DE), Manja Barthel (DE), Matthias Bausch (DE), Nathalie Bertrams (DE), José Miguel Biscaya (PT), Theo Boettger (DE), Daniele Giuseppe Bornino (IT), Ivan Bošković (RS), Ulu Braun (DE), Ulu Braun & Roland Rauschmeier (DE), Jan Brokof (DE), Simone Cametti (IT), Katrin Caspar (DE), Elviro Chiricozzi (IT), Nicolae Comanescu (RO), Christiane Dénés (DE), Barbara Dévény (DE), Rocco Dubbini (IT), Joyce Eijkhout (NL), Franziska Fennert (DE), Willi Filz (BE), Jakob Flohe (DE), Gunda Förster (DE), Alexander Freund (DE), Heribert Friedl (AT), Florian Froese-Peeck (DE), Gallery FIST (DK/RU), Mavi Garcia (ES), Viktoria Graf (DE), David Grasekamp (DE), Mitsy Groenendijk & Anya Janssen (NL), Vincenzo Grosso (IT), Ivan Grubanow, Angelika Haak (DE), Esther Hagenmaier (DE), Sebastian Hempel (DE), Vera Hilger (DE), Sara Hoppe (DE), Caroline Israel (DE), Richard Johansson (SE), MK Kähne (LT), MK Kähne & Andrei Loginov (LT), Anders Kappel (SE), Rolf Kirsch (DE), Klasse Deggeller (HfbK Dresden, DE), Anne Klein (DE), Michael Klipphahn (DE), Jürgen Klugmann (DE), David Koenig (DE), Takehito Koganezawa (JP), Via Lewandowsky (DE), Marie Lienhard (FR), Lilith Love (NL), Manfred Mahsberg (DE), Christian Manss (DE), Olaf Mooij (NL), Michael Mørk (DK), Konrad Mühe (DE), Thomas O´Grady (GB), Stephan Ortmanns (DE), PSJM (ES), Davide Quayola (IT), Günter Rangeard (BE), Tanja Rochelmeyer (DE), Olaf Rößler (DE), Rasso Rottenfußer (DE), Bernhard Rüdiger (DE/IT), Andres Rump (DE), Kai Savelsberg (DE), ARTIST COLLECTIVE SCHAUM (DE), Miriam Schmalen (DE), Silke Schöner (DE), Brele Scholz (DE), Winnie Seifert (DE), Andrea Spiga (IT), Benjamin Stölzel (DE), Mariko Takagi (DE), Myriam Thyes (CH), Luca Vanello (IT/SI), Klaus Walter (DE), Michael Wesely (DE)