Zeitraumexit

Zeitraumexit is an artists' house in Mannheim, whose support is the non-profit zeitraumexit eV. The zeitraumexit eV organized, presented, and ( ko) produces exhibitions, performances, dance, theater, live art, video art and installations.

History

Zeitraumexit was formed in 2000 from a merger of the Office of period art and EX! T base theater. " Since then, the quartet in the region for unusual, international art projects that bring together visual and performing arts. " Founding members were the artist Gabriele Oßwald (performance, visual arts), Wolfgang Sauter Master (performance, visual arts), Elke Schmid (Director) and Tilo Schwarz ( drawing, stage design, lighting design), as well as the board members Manfred Ziegler, Peter Empl and Gerhard Schöneberg. Besides her work for zeitraumexit the artistic director Osswald, Sautermeister, Schmid and Black profile as individual artists and their works will be invited to Seoul. Elke Schmid left zeitraumexit 2009 at their work in Berlin to investigate further.

Between May 2000 and May 2007, the premises of zeitraumexit district of Mannheim Neckarstadt East were. 2007, the historic Kauffmann mill, a listed former corn mill in the district Jungbusch was purchased. The new facility two studios were established, two theater spaces ( with 60 or 80 spectators ), an exhibition space, a bar and offices. The farm is used as an outdoor stage. The association is financed largely from private funds from foundations and sponsors, but also receives project funding by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the State of Baden -Württemberg and the city of Mannheim. In addition to " rely on the constant as free help from 30 to 60 helpers ". Reporting on zeitraumexit place in regional press instead (eg Mannheimer Morgen, Rhine Palatinate ), on radio ( SWR, DLF ) and TV ( 3sat ), in national newspapers and journals (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Theater der Zeit, dance date, Art Forum International ) and in the online press ( Nachtkritik ).

Prizes and awards

In 2008, the artistic director received from zeitraumexit the Baerwind price of Rudi - Baerwind Foundation, as the collective " is almost exactly Baerwind idea of the boundaries border energy in a symposium ". zeitraumexit was " meeting place for artists and art lovers outside established institutions. Organised by zeitraumexit annual festival wonders of the prairie has a firm place in the calendar of the region and enjoys attention, " which goes far beyond this ."

With the Stuttgart Theatre Prize 2013 won co-productions of zeitraumexit several awards: the Stuttgart dance and theater award in the dance went to Gerro, Minos & Him, the special price for an exceptional dramatic performance and the audience award went to Sudermann & Söderberg for " A Talk".

Events

Zeitraumexit realized approximately 14 events per year to about 80 visiting days, with about 5500 visitors. This zeitraumexit cooperates frequently with other regional and international cultural institutions such as the National Theatre Mannheim, the Old Fire Station, Kunsthalle Mannheim, the TiG7, the theater in Felina area, the youth theater group rampig, the gallery metabolism and the gallery stockings (Mannheim), the Forum Freies theater Dusseldorf, the sophiensaele and the Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, Hamburg, Kampnagel the University of Design Offenbach am Main, the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, the Het Veem Theatre in Amsterdam, the Grand Theatre Groningen, the Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Netherlands ), the Kunstcentrum Campo ( Ghent, Belgium), the brut Wien ( Austria ) and the Vienna Festival, the Komuna / / Warszawa (Poland), Kanuti Guild Hall in Tallinn (Estonia) or station Service for Contemporary Dance in Belgrade (Serbia ). Annual events such as 97m above the sea, an open " remarkable platform in the region " for performing artists, Wilson Road just arrived with students studying for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen and, a multi-day festival for young performing artists of the divisions of dance, performance and theater of Europe.

In the premises of zeitraumexit regularly hosts cultural events organized by others, such as the monthly boob tube and the B-side, the festival of visual art and culture now.

Since mid-2013 offers zeitraumexit also elektrosmog which a home. The experimental electroacoustic music of Mannheim has found an open space and solid place for himself here and meets here monthly.

The Vanishing Prairie

The largest hosted by zeitraumexit multi-day festival is the miracle of the Prairie, one of the top 15 festivals in the Rhine- Neckar with about 5000 visitors, which " has developed a short time great reputation among artists and art lovers " within. Main sponsor of the festival since 2005, BASF SE, Co - sponsors include John Deere and the Society for Innovative Market Research mbH. Starting point of the festival was the 9th International Conference performance in July 2000, zeitraumexit acted as hosts at the. Since then, every year the festival will take place in galleries and theater spaces, but also opens into the city and revived urban centers: Gob Squad already recorded this Holiday Inn offers Room Service - Help me make it through the night and the parade ground with Saving the world - a very very wide screen movie ( co-produced by zeitraumexit, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Hamburg, Kampnagel and Vienna Festival ), a parking garage was transformed into an exhibition, and Friederike & Uwe built together with visitors of the water tower with mini plug in the Central Station ("My home is my water tower ").

The previously " spectacular festival action" project "cape fear" of raumlaborberlin was: About the festival lasts for ten days built the interdisciplinary group of Architecture and Urbanism " with locals in a public place on a submarine from recycled materials, with the most recent day [ ... ] Mannheimer Neckar tip was navigated to apply at Ludwigshafen bank of the Rhine. " 2013 returned raumlaborberlin back to Mannheim. The Vanishing Prairie brings to ten days of dance, theater, performance and visual arts of national and international actors " from Auckland to Zurich " to Mannheim, with a guest list who " truly impressive " can: Anna Huber, Stefan Kaegi ( Rimini Protokoll ), Hong O Bong, Alastair McLennan, Stan's Café, Bill Aitchison, Jaap Blonk, Tatsumi Oromoto, Ene- Liis Semper, Boris Nikitin, David Weber-Krebs, Hina Strüver, Jan- Philipp Possmann, Birgit Aßhoff, Ingrid Mwangi, Robert Hutter, Walter Siegfried, Marina POP, Norbert Klassen, Phil Hayes, Marc Calame, Matthias Rüttimann, Nezaket Ekici, Genco Gulan, Herma Auguste Wittstock, Prof. Hans -Thies Lehmann, Claire Marshall ( Forced Entertainment ), Mike Pearson, She She Pop, Urban Lies, the Helmi, Dance on & off, Antonia Baehr, Boris Nieslony, Simon Mayer, Georg Winter and Jacob Wren.

Threads of the last years were:

2013: The Vanishing Prairie, dreamed According topic
2011: The Vanishing Prairie, Subject dare the impossible
2009: The Vanishing Prairie, on waste
2008: The Vanishing Prairie, issue of anxiety
2007: The Vanishing Prairie, issue 400 hours - nonstop
2006: The Vanishing Prairie, subject of luck, luck, luck
2005: The Vanishing Prairie, Travel theme
2004: The Vanishing Prairie, topic at home
2003: Do you understand
2002: stadtraum [ ] private room
2001: The reality of the thing
2000: The art of acting, 9th International Performance Conference

Since 2009, The Vanishing Prairie is aligned as a biennial.

Outside the box

In September 2013 zeitraumexit launched the international art and research project outside the box. It examines the lives and habitats of art venues. The project takes the art venue in its embedding in a specific time, a specific place, in a particular social and political microcosm into view. The research results will be presented on the market from 5 to 7 June 2014. Cooperation partners are Forum Freies Theater Dusseldorf, Grand Theatre Groningen, Het Veem Theatre (Amsterdam), Kanuti Guild Hall (Tallinn ) and Komuna / / Warszawa. The project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden- Württemberg, the Baden- Württemberg Foundation and the Cultural Department of the City of Mannheim.

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