Conceptual artist Mischa Kuball (born 1959 in Düsseldorf, where he lives
and works) has been working in the public and institutional sphere since
1977. He uses light as a medium to explore
architectural
spaces as well as social and political discourses and reflects on a whole
variety of aspects from sociocultural structures to architectural
interventions as well as emphasizing or reinterpreting their monumental
nature and context in architectural history. Public and private space
merge into an indistinguishable whole in politically motivated
participation projects, providing a platform for communication between the
audience, the artist, the work itself and
public
space.
Since 2007 Mischa Kuball has been a Professor for public art
at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, and associate professor for media
art at Hochschule für Gestaltung/ZKM, Karlsruhe. Since 2015 he has been a
member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and
the Arts, Düsseldorf. In 2016 he was honoured with the German Light Award.
