The Kunsthaus Graz can be read as a utopian building whose roots go back to the late 1960s, drawing on concepts such as living architecture and intelligent exhibition machine. The arteries of its organic, technical form became moving walkways that carry visitors; the facade, originally designed as transparent to reveal the inner workings of the exhibition machine, instead became a pulsating light facade and a third exhibition space for the public.
Dystopia - Utopia
It is this facade that now displays the latest work in a current series by Mischa Kuball. One of the leading light artists in the world today, for the month of Licht 2017 Kuball is showing public preposition | (Dys)(U)topia, a script that mutates from the term Utopia to Dystopia and back again. In an endless loop of repetitions on the facade, he questions shifting perspectives on both architectonic and social developments, here and everywhere.
public prepositions
Since 2009, Mischa Kuball has been realising a series of installations in public space. Under the title of public preposition, it explores the potential of light on different levels. So far he has worked in Venice, Marfa (Texas), Toronto, Bern, Wolfsburg, Katowice and Christchurch.
Public prepositions formulates questions about art in public space and social change within an urban context, while examining and ‘illuminating’ site-specificity and the fundamental notion of ‘public’ itself.
