Mischa Kuball

Born in 1959 in Düsseldorf, Germany, lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Mischa Kuball has been working in the public sphere since 1987. He uses light as a medium to explore architectual space as well as social and political discourse in his installations and photographs, reflecting on a whole variety of aspects from sociocultual structures to architectural interventions, emphasising or reinterpreting their monumental nature and context in architectual history. Public and private space merge into an indistinguishable whole in politically motivated participation projects, providing a platform for communikation between the audience, the artist, the work itself and public space. Since 2007 Mischa Kuball is a Professor in the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne where he founded with students the -1/MinusEins Experimental Lab.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2014  
'New Pott', Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
'public preposition / Les Fleurs du Mal', Museum Marl
2013 
'platon's mirror', exhibition tour at CAN Foundation, Seou and at McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Toronto
'public preposition / Ghost Tram', Katowice
'New Pott – New Home in the Revier', GEMAK, Den Haag
'public preposition / public stage', Sofia
'Amateurfilm', Goethe Institut, Toronto
2012 
'MetaLicht' at Bergische Universität Wuppertal
'New Pott', Centrum Kultury, Katowice
'platon's mirror', exhibition tour at The State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki /GR and Salon Muzeja savremene umetnosti, Belgrade  and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London and Samsa-Sofia Arsenal Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia and Muzeul National de arta contemporana, Bukarest  and Museu Nacional de arte contemporanea, Lisbon
'public preposition / Fieses Licht', Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg
'six-pack-six', Kunstverein Lippe Schloss Detmold
2011 'platon's mirror', exhibition tour at Jagiellonen University, Krakow and Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe and Artspace Sydney
'public preposition / swingstage', public building, Toronto
'New Pott', Ruhr-Universität Collection, Bochum
'mies-mies', Kunstmuseum Celle
2011 platon's mirror', exhibition tour at Jagiellonen University, Krakow and Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe and Artspace Sydney
'public preposition / swingstage', public building, Toronto
'New Pott', Ruhr-Universität Collection, Bochum
'mies-mies', Kunstmuseum Celle
2010 'Seven Virtues', Karamelitenkirche, München
2009 'public preposition', Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
2008 'Re:Mix/ Broca II (Letters/Numbers)', Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide     
'City Portrait', Contemporary Art Museum, Toyota
'LightShadowComplex', Museum of Contemporary Art, Pori
2007 'ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers)', ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe    
'lightComplex', Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus
2006 'pacemaker', Stadtwerke Düsseldorf
2005 'Lucky Number. Neue Projektionen', Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
2004 Cinemas Roppongi Hills x Mori Art Museum Collaboration, Tokyo
2003 'City thru glass / Düsseldorf - Moscow - Düsseldorf', K20 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
2002 'das Broca'sche Areal', Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
2001 '...ein Fenster' in the Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf
2000 'Projektionsraum 1:1:1 / Farbraum', Museum Folkwang, Essen
1999 'greenlight', public project in Montevideo
1998 'Private Light/Public Light', contribution for 24th Biennale, São Paulo
1997 'project rooms', BM contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
1996 'Moderne, rundum/Vienna Version', Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna
1995 'refraction house', Synagogue Stommeln close to Cologne, Köln
1994 'Bauhaus-Block', Heidelberger Kunstverein
1993 'Bauhaus-Block', Museum Folkwang, Essen
1992 'Bauhaus-Block', at Bauhaus Dessau
'Projektionsraum 1:1:1', Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
1991 'Welt/Fall, Haus Wittgenstein', in cooperation with Vilém Flusser, Vienna
1990 'Megazeichen', Mannesmann high-rise building, Düsseldorf
1989 Mischa Kuball (with Paul Hunter) Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1988 'Projektonen', Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
1987 'DIA-CUT', Städtische Galerie in Museum Folkwang, Essen


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS



2013 'public preposition / solidarity grid', SCAPE 7, Biennale Christchurch (and 2015)
2012 'State of the Art Photography', NRW-FORUM Düsseldorf
2011 'public preposition / Metzgergässchen', Bone14, Festival for Performance Art, Bern
2010 'Catch as Catch Can' with Lawrence Weiner, Emscherkunst.2010, Bernepark/Bottrop-Ebel
2008 3 Video Works', Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
2007 'Das schwarze Quadrat. Hommage to Malewitsch', Hamburger Kunsthalle
2006 'Selection 3 - Daylight', Kunstmuseum Bonn
2005 'Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht', ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
2004 'After Images - Kunst als Soziales Gedächtnis', Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen
2003 'RITUALE in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2002 'Mirroring Evil - Nazi Imagery / Recent Art', The Jewish Museum, New York
2001 Centre For International Light Art, Unna
2000 'HausSchau - Das Haus in der Kunst', Deichtorhallen Hamburg
1999 'das XX. jahrhundert. ein jahrhundert kunst in deutschland', Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
1998 'private light / public light', 24th São Paulo Biennale, Brazil
1997 'Farbe am Bauhaus', Bauhaus Dessau
1996 '15 Lux MAXIMUM/new impulses in light sculpting', Eight Floor Inc., New York
1995 'Lazlo Moholy-Nagy/Idee und Wirkung', Städtische Kunsthalle Bielefeld
1994 'Lichträume', at Bauhaus Dessau
1993 'Lichträume', Museum Folkwang, Essen
1992 Centre for Fine Arts, Miami
1991 'Transparenz/Transzendenz', Intern. Forum Ludwig, Aachen
1990 'ArsViva', Kunstverein Heidelberg
1988 'Good Art', Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1985 'ArtWare, Inter Media', Hamburg
1983 'Alice Aycock and Mischa Kuball at Protetch McNeil Gallery, New York