SSZ Sued 2011–2017

eds. Alexander Basile für SSZ Sued Off Galerie Köln

The SSZ Sued was an off-gallery that had its rooms from 2011 to 2017 in Cologne's Neustadt Süd directly opposite Cologne's Südbahnhof. The aim of the SSZ was to present positions by artists from the Rhineland and beyond. Always as a solo exhibition.

For the SSZ Sued Show „Mischa Kuball. public preposition“ in 2017, Düsseldorf-based artist Mischa Kuball made the space inaccessible with a simple but unambiguous gesture from the art world.

The catalog provides a well-founded insight into the exhibition program, the poster series, exhibition texts and installation views and thus allows exciting conclusions to be drawn about the working methods of a young generation of artists.

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The new, permanent installation future_grid will open on March 5th at 8pm at Peter-Behrens-Bau, Oberhausen to the public. The installation will be accessible every day from 8 pm.

In the site-specific installation future_grid, Mischa Kuball stages selected fragments of large-scale industrial machines on the outdoor grounds of Peter-Behrens-Bau using light and sound. A projected light grid places the dysfunctional post-industrial artifacts in a free associative space in which visitors can explore new narratives of the future in dialogue with them – supported by an audio walk.

The silent material presence of the sculptural-looking contemporary witnesses behind the former warehouse of one of the region's largest steel producers continuously expands in Mischa Kuball’s work future_grid to include new information and contexts, questions, and narratives. In this process-oriented project, the artist transforms the museum into a dynamic repository of knowledge that sees itself as an energetic generator where preservation and research take place and new future visions can be generated.

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Visit the mobile Application with an audio walk

Contiguous to the museum, four circles from stone lie flushed with the grass. When they are stepped onto, visitors activate spotlights mounted on the trees around. Initiated by the visitors movements, a lightbeam forms, creating a defined (exterior) space. A temorary stage emerges, accompanied by a sound stage which invites visitors to become active performers on the park stage.

At Museum Morsbroich

Public Art - Gedanken zu Formen des Öffentlichen

eds. Peter M. Lynen, Mischa Kuball

Die Publikation bildet eine Dokumentation des Symposiums „Kunst und Öffentlichkeit. Über das sich wandelnde Verhältnis von öffentlichen Räumen“ vom 16. Februar 2017 anlässlich der Ausstellung „Mischa Kuball: public preposition (Materialsammlung)“ in der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste.

Sammelband mit Beiträgen von: Peter M. Lynen, Mischa Kuball, Vanessa Joan Müller, Anthony Cragg, Candida Höfer, Susanne Titz, Fritz Behrens, Wolfgang Pehnt, Manuel Herz

CURATING UNDER PRESSURE

Issue 37 / May 2017

eds. Elke auf dem Moore

 

The symposium Curating under Pressure held in November 2015 in Christchurch, New Zealand/Aotearoa, developed by Elke aus dem Moore and Leonhard Emmerling, asked for art strategies in times of crisis. The symposium focused on the ethics of curating in the biennial business was initiated by ifa and Goethe-Institut, realized in cooperation with Creative New Zealand and the University of Canterbury, and was supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. The symposium outlined two possible states of crisis in a global perspective: the natural disaster—contributions in this publication can be found by Azhari Aiyub, Tim Veling, Chloe Geogeghan, Aaron Kreisler, and Syafiatudina—and states of political pressure—with contributions by Rona Kopeczky, Alisa Prudnikova, Bruce E. Philips, and Elke aus dem Moore.