“DYS(U)TOPIA / public preposition”
Mischa Kuball places his art at the intersection of light and urban space. He uses the medium of light to reflect
sites and to reflect on them. For BLACK_CUBE Mischa Kuball will create two light signs that will move to
various locations in the United States during a period of 2-4 weeks. They will be simultaneously a claim and a
question: DYSTOPIA or UTOPIA? FINISHED or UNFINISHED? Restlessly, the syllables change through the light and
thus not only alter the actual meaning, but also the perception of the location signified. Is this place
already finished or is it still in the process of development? Does it tell a good story or does it express
the problematic sides of our modern life? The question of a contemporary definition of public space
art is certainly a serious one in our time which has also undergone a substantial change since the 1970s. In his
project series “public preposition”, Mischa Kuball reposits this topic within an extended context.
“Preposition” here means words, such as “at”, “among” or “beside” and thereby the relationship between historical
sites and their social political contexts. All “public prepositions” proceed from a precise analysis
of the given site in which they take place. They incorporate their social, political or communal specificity and are considered to be temporary interventions that rely on the potential of an altered perception of seemingly familiar urban contexts.