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Mischa Kuball (born 20 September, 1959 in Düsseldorf) is a German artist. Since 2007 he has been professor for Media Art at Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Vita
Since 1984, Mischa Kuball has been working in public and institutional spaces. He received notable awards and scholarships and since 1991 he has been teaching at various universities and art schools. 1999/2000 he was visiting professor at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, working on the subject of "light and space", from 2004 to 2008 he taught media art at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe. Since October 2007 he has been professor for media art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and founded the MinusEins Experimentallabor there.

Using the medium of light – in installations and photography – he explores architectural spaces and contributes to social and political discourses. He reflects the varying facets of cultural social structures to the point of architectural interventions that either highlight or reprogram the character and architectural context. In politically motivated and participatory projects the public and private space are crossed over. They make possible a communication between participants, the artist, the art work, and the public space. For the São Paulo Biennial in 1998 Kuball worked with private lamps. In later years, architectures such as the Mannesmann-tower in Düsseldorf (1990) or the Stommeln synagogue (1994) were transformed into individual bodies of light. During his project ... a window in the Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf (2001), he also worked with natural light. He realized further pieces in well-known institutions in Germany and abroad: at Bauhaus Dessau (1992), Jewish Museum, New York (2002), Hamburger Kunsthalle (2007), NTT-Intercommunication Center Tokyo (2008). Temporary installations were exhibited at Kunstsammlung NRW Düsseldorf (2005), Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1999), ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2005) and Centre Pompidou-Metz (2010).

In 2010, on the occasion of "RUHR.2010" and the European City of Culture, in collaboration with Harald Welzer and Christoph Keller, Mischa Kuball organized NEW POTT, a participatory project with one hundred families from one hundred countries.

Additionally, since 2009, Mischa Kuball has developed a series of sitespecific installations entitled public preposition that were shown at Caserma Cornoldi, Venedig (2009), Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2009), in Toronto, Canada (2011) as well as in the context of the Bone14-Performance Festivals, Bern (2011). The installations of the series 'public preposition' refer to Mischa Kuball's continued interest in playing with abstract form and symbolic communication. "Preposition" here refers to "and", "but", and "or" — the words in between the historical site and the intervention — which facilitate thoughts and discussions about the artwork and its siting.

Since the beginning of 2011 his complex project platon's mirror was exhibited at ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art Karlsruhe, Artspace Visual Arts Centre Sydney, MNAC in Bucharest, Central St. Martin School London, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, and other places.

solo exhibitions (selection)
2012 'Platon's Mirror', MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania; SAMSI – Sofia Arsenal Museum of Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgarian; Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

2011 'Platon's mirror', ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany; Artspace Sydney, Australia; Jagiellonen University Krakow, Poland

2010 Mischa Kuball: NEW POTT, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr University Bochum, Campusmuseum. Sammlung Moderne, Bochum, Germany

2010 Emscherkunst.2010 with the project Lichtinstallation der Klärbecken & Catch as catch can, collaboration with Lawrence Weiner

2009 Artist in Residence, Marfa, Texas, USA

2008 'CityPortrait', Contemporary Art Museum, Toyota, Japan

2008 'Re:Mix/ Broca II (Letters/Numbers)', Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia

2007 'Re:Mix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers)', ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

2005 'space - speed - speech', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK

2005 'Flash Planet 2005', IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

2005 'Lucky Number. Neue Projektionen', Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany

2003/2005 'UNIVERSITÄTSBIBLIOTHEK', installation in public space, neon writing at the facade of the library of Ruhr University Bochum, Deutschland

2003 'City thru Glass', State Tretyakov Gallery, Moskow, Russia

2003 'Utopie / Black Square 2001ff.', Kunstsammlungen Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

2003 'Stadt durch Glas / Düsseldorf - Moscow - Düsseldorf', K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

2000 'urban context', Projekt. Bunker Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

2000 'public stage', Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle/Saale, Germany

1998 'project rooms', Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln; Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken in der Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, Saarbrücken, Germany

1998 'Private Light/Public Light', contribution to 24. Sao Paulo Biennial, Brasil

1994 'refraction house', installation in public space, Synagoge Stommeln, Puhlheim, Germany

1990 'Megazeichen', installation in public space, Mannesmann-Hochhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany

publications

 * Karin Stempel (Hrsg.): Private light, public light. Deutscher Beitrag zur 24. Biennale São Paulo 1998. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, ISBN 3-89322-504-8.
 * Florian Matzner (Hrsg.): ... in progress – Mischa Kuball. Projekte 1980 – 2007. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1926-1.
 * Mischa Kuball, Harald Welzer (Hrsg.): New Pott: Neue Heimat im Revier. JRP Ringier, Zürich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03-764138-5.
 * Friedericke Wappler (Hrsg.): New Relations in Art and Society. JRP Ringier, Zürich 2011, ISBN: 978-3-03764-189-7.
 * Platon's Mirror Zur Aktualität des Höhlengleichnisses angeregt durch Projektionen von Mischa Kuball, Hrsg. von Andreas F. Beitin & Blair French, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Karlsruhe/Sydney 2011, ISBN: 978-3-86335-108-3.