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Mischa Kuball

public preposition

Veränderte Wahrnehmung bekannt scheinender urbaner Kontexte

“Public preposition” is the title of a series of works in public settings Mischa Kuball (b. Düsseldorf, 1959; lives and works in Düsseldorf) has realized since 2009. So far he has created installations in Venice, Marfa (Tex.), Toronto, Berne, Wolfsburg, Jerusalem, Katowice, and Christchurch. Since the 1970s, artists have explored the fundamental question of how to conceive art in the public sphere for our time; their answers have varied widely. Each installation in the “public preposition” series repositions this question afresh in a larger context. Prepositions are words such as “at,” “on,” and “beneath”—words that are crucial to describing the relationship between a historic site and the artist’s intervention in it. This study highlights issues of art in the public sphere, social transformation in urban contexts, site-specificity, and the underlying idea of the public as such.

With essays by Zoran Eric, Blair French, Vanessa Joan Müller, and Barbara Steiner as well as a conversation between Mischa Kuball and Vanessa Joan Müller.