* 1959 in Düsseldorf (DE), lives and works in Düsseldorf

Mischa Kuball, conceptual artist, has been working in public and institutional spaces since 1977. He uses light as a medium to explore architectural spaces as well as social and political discourses, reflecting on a wide range of aspects—from sociocultural structures to architectural interventions—whose monumentality and architectural-historical context he emphasizes or reinterprets. In politically motivated participatory projects, public and private spaces merge into an indistinguishable whole, offering a platform for communication between the audience, the artist, the artwork, and public space.

Mischa Kuball has been a visiting professor of “public art / design curating” at the University of Wuppertal since August 2026. From 2007 to 2026, he was a professor of art in public space at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, and from 2006 to 2008, a professor of media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (ZKM). Since 2015, he has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Düsseldorf. In 2016, he was awarded the German Light Prize.