Mischa Kuball

In the autumn of 2007 the Aarhus Art Building will present a large exhibition by the internationally renowned light and media artist Mischa Kuball. For more than twenty years Mischa Kuball has been working conceptually with light. Artificial light is one of the most transformable media types. It can be placed anywhere, it can be shaped and turned on at will and moreover it is full of symbolic power, emotions and suggestion. In a unique way Mischa Kuball combines the aesthetic dimension of light with social and political statements. By means of the individual works Kuball dislocates the physical boundaries of the spaces and adds new spiritual dimensions to them.

Kuball will light up the whole of the Aarhus Art Building and will present several extensive light installations and projections. While images, letters, number and light projections wander about the four exhibition halls of the Art Building the glass sections in the new basement floor will be staged and filled with coloured light, and at night the glass cube in the sculpture yard will present itself as a clearly visible red architectonic lantern. Moreover the letters KUNST (“ART” in Danish) over the entrance to the Aarhus Art Building will be supplemented by the letters HAL in blinking neon so that from now on the inscription over the entrance will read KunstHal – in two different media and letter types. This will signify that the Aarhus Art Building with its long tradition as an exhibition venue has been through a major profile change and recently has become a member of The Danish Association of Art Centres – a small group of non-profit art institutions that organize and present exhibitions but have no permanent collections of their own.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an extensive publication titled Mischa Kuball … in progress. Projects 1980-2007 published by the art publisher Hatje Cantz. In connection with the exhibition the Aarhus Art Building will present a number of concerts with new electronic music plus artist talks, workshops and lectures.

The exhibition is the result of an international collaboration and will also be presented in Karlsruhe, Hannover, Belgrade, Graz, Shanghai, Tokyo and Beijing, with changing or new works in each location.

Since 2004 Mischa Kuball (b. 1959) has been a professor at the reputable Art Academy in Karlsruhe (Germany). Mischa Kuball has participated in several international solo and group exhibitions. In Denmark he presented the work public catharsis in connection with the European light exhibition LUX EUROPAE 2002 in Copenhagen. Moreover in 2005 he participated in Kunsthallen Brandts’ extensive theme exhibition Skyggespil (Shadow Play) arranged on the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen.

Mischa Kuball
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