einszehn, zweizehn, dreizehn,

is the title of an exhibition series at the Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, presented in four duets and one prelude, featuring nine artistic positions. The series takes certain aspects of the history of Zeppelin development—still of significance to Friedrichshafen—as its point of departure, without depicting or historicizing the events of the turn of the last century. Instead, it focuses in a highly abstracted way on questions that were and remain essential to any movement toward an open-ended future: questions concerning the relationship between vision and reality, technology and creativity, machine and human, image and history, or structure and freedom.

›einszehn, zweizehn, dreizehn,‹ presents art as a specific form of research and explores the role of intuition and logic within artistic research processes. The duets will not necessarily appear harmonious—often rather atonal. At the center of all five stagings lies the direct encounter between artwork and viewer. Over the course of the year, the exhibition series ›einszehn, zweizehn, dreizehn,‹ will open five distinct spaces of attention for the curious visitor.