AUT - Mischa Kuball
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Mischa Kuball
Megasign Düsseldorf, 1990
MISCHA KUBALL
Visiting artist will give a talk in
March 14, 2008 at 11 a.m.
Gallery One
Mischa Kuball, born 1959 in Düsseldorf, Germany, is one of the most renowned German artistworking site specifically and in public space. He currently teaches as Professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Mischa Kuball will talk about interventions in the public sphere and problems and issues around this topic.
Under the projects presented will be Megasign I-VI, where Mischa Kuball transformed at night, after the employees had left, an office building into a light sculpture whose design changed everyweek over a period of six weeks. One other striking example of his practice is Public Square (Hamburg 2007): 500 participants in black dresses formed a rectangle and walked through thestreets of the City of Hamburg, holding a banner with the phrase: 'public sphere - every gesturein the city is politics'. Albeit refering to Malevich's Black Square, the march was performed like ademonstration and had to be protected by the police. Constantly changing from a square to a rectangle and back, the project refers in Kuball's words to the amorphousness of a tolerant society. But it also refers to a famous incident from 1986, the 'Hamburg Cauldron', where more than 800demonstrants were surrounded by police and closed in for more than 13 hours illegally.
Recent developments in Mischa's work lead to collaborations with neuroscientists to result in visualisations of brain activities. The works are currently on show at the Adelaide Festival, Australia.
Mischa Kuball
Photography by Yun Lee
More information about the artist can be found on his website:
Free Admission. All welcome
This event is made possible with the generous support of the Goethe-Institut.
More info on www.goethe.de/nz
