2020 looked like a year of many quarantine periods. For the Quarantäne Artist Collective 2020 was the year of their 13th project- Quarantäne 13. In collaboration with the professional programmer Felix Molitor Quarantäne 13 was designed  an online exhibition on the MineTest platform – an open source platform for a Sandbox game. The Project continued for 5 months and included more than 30 international artists. Each participating artist got a certain area to build their own gallery / museum / installation / and upload images, sounds and 3D objects of their real artworks. Artists get the possibility to share ideas and get inspired from each other during the process through an online voice chat where they can communicate while building their exhibition spaces. The exhibition is freely open for viewers at any time of the development. There are four separate virtual exhibition spaces. Visitors and artists can connect with each other despite the isolation restrictions and closed borders. This online exhibition deals with reality, virtual space and the contemporary art world. (Even a specific street art scene has started to develop in the recent days and some of the walls of the buildings have been “sprayed”).

Participants: Quarantäne Artist Collective – Detlef Schlagheck, Leonid Kharlamov, Marc Pospiech, Elena Kaludova

Invited Artist: Albena Baeva, Albert Heimidowich, Anastasia Alekseevna, Answer 51, Anna und Vitali Cherepanov, Christian Richter, Elena Pastor, Jarkko Räsänen, Jenny Reismann, Jimok Choi, Leda Vaneva, Manuel Zint, Mathieu Bessey, Michael Steinhauser, Mari Poller, Momchil Alexiev, Radoil Serafimov, Rene Beekman, Studio of Factory, viktor d., Vladimir Seleznyov, Yana Krachunova

Concept: Quarantäne Artist Collective Art world engineer: Felix Molitor

“I perceive Minetest’s building blocks as a tool for “sculpting” ideas and the platform’s framework as the gallery itself. I see the simplicity of its elements, on one hand, as a source of complete freedom, and on the other, as a generator of a different process of sensemaking. I was thinking here of “The human as a building” which little by little is inhabited and slowly internally engineered. The tiny colored blocks become a virtual mirror reflecting its light on the idea of “building oneself”.”