{"product_id":"27808-mischa-kuball","title":"Mischa Kuball","description":"\u003cp\u003eWithin the context of the exhibition project \u0026quot;Light on Weimar\u0026quot; sponsored by the Weimar 1999 - Kulturstadt Europas GmbH, Mischa Kuball chose a central space in the classical city as the site for his installation: the inner courtyard of the former Weimar Gauforum (District Forum). This undefined square in the middle of the city, which serves as a parking lot today and thus unconsciously reflects the historical ordering structures of the surrounding hierarchical architectural configuration, was altered with the aid of light and language. A spotlight beam illuminated the area in a pattern of random movements. The square was transformed into a stage through the motion of the light. The surrounding urban space and the traffic flowing by became mere background elements of a new place. This space, often experienced as non-space within a small-city ensemble gained the dimension of a different level of experience that is at once historical and utopian. Yet the temporary intervention did not seek to \u0026quot;improve\u0026quot; upon the existing situation but to emphasise the utopia of a different way of dealing with this place, its history and its present. The artist: Mischa Kuball, born 1959 in Dusseldorf; 1990: awarded the \u0026quot;Förderpreis ars viva\u0026quot; by the Kulturkreis im BDI, Cologne; 1991: grant for contemporary photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung, Essen; 1993: \u0026quot;Förderpreis Bildende Kunst\u0026quot; from the state of North-Rhine Westfalia; 1996: work grant from the Kunstfonds e. V. Bonn; 1997: grant for work in New York from the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur, NRW, Dusseldorf; grant for work in Brazil and Japan from the Ministry of Family Affairs, Urban Development and Culture, North-Rhine Westfalia, Dusseldorf; 1998: exhibited a work as the German contribution to the 24th São Paulo Biennial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45526204449032,"sku":"9783893222551","price":14.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783893222551_a4608162-ef24-4406-971e-cff415d7d8fb.jpg?v=1744118799","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/27808-mischa-kuball","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}