Mischa Kuball, ‚white space', Leipzig 2014. (c) Punctum - Zeyen, Leipzig.

You are kindly invited to a lecture by Düsseldorf-based light and conceptual artist Mischa Kuball entitled "Light, Enlightenment and Other Irritations": Artistic Interventions in Public Spaces, organized by the Goethe-Institut Ljubljana, in collaboration with the Moderna galerija.

The lecture will be on Thursday, 30 May 2024 at 7 p.m. at the Moderna galerija auditorium and will be held in English. Kuball's visit in May is part of the celebrations to mark the 300th anniversary of Kant's birth and the 20th anniversary of the Goethe-Institut in Slovenia.

The conceptual artist Mischa Kuball has been working in public and institutional spaces since 1977.

'I use the medium of light to explore architectural spaces and their social and political discourses. I use the medium of light to reflect on the different facets, from cultural social structures to architectural interventions, which emphasise the aspects of 'landmark character' and the architectural-historical context or encode them anew. In politically motivated and participatory projects, public and private space are often intertwined in my work. In most projects, communication is facilitated between the participants and the artist, the work and the urban space. In my work presentation I focus on different strategies and methods - a gift, an irritation - an exchange offer... depending on the respective contexts on site!'

Mischa Kuball has been Professor of Public Art at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne since 2007, Professor of Media Art at the Academy of Art and Design/ZKM, Karlsruhe from 2001-2008 and a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts NRW, Düsseldorf since 2015. In 2016 he was awarded the German Light Art Prize. Since 2024, Mischa Kuball has been an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity. Image Space Material" at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2024, he holds the Forum Professorship in the Wallraf Year at the Albertus Magnus University in Cologne. He lives with his family in Düsseldorf.