Mischa Kuball

by Thorsten Sadowsky

The conceptual artist Mischa Kuball (b. 1959) has been making installations involving light in public and institutional spaces since 1984. In 2016 he received the German Light Art Award. Artificial light is one of the most adaptable media that can be used anywhere and moulded and controlled any way you want, and at the same time it is powerfully symbolic, suggestive, and emotive. Mischa Kuball uses monitors, video projections, spot lights, and slide projectors to medially break up, question or re-interpret fixed spatial structures and perceptual topoi. In his exhibition 'Light on Kirchner'...