27.01.2026
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf presents platon's mirror
From Tuesday, 2026/1/27 I Glassammlung des Kunstpalasts, Düsseldorf /DE
Mischa Kuball's room installation platon's mirror (2011 ff.) is being exhibited for the first time in the Kunstpalast collection.
platon's mirror is based on one of the most influential texts in European literature: Plato's allegory of the cave. In it, the distinction between two forms of reality is formulated: visible reality and the (true) reality of ideas.
In arrangements that are both simple and highly effective, using projectors and reflective silver foil, photographs, and videos, Kuball creates spaces that can be understood as parables of Plato's cave situation. At the same time, in his photographs and videos, he translates the complex relationship between light source, reflection, silhouette, and image into seemingly endless stages of mediation, in which reality is constantly reconstituted as the reality of its reflection.
The publication “platon's mirror,” edited by Andreas Beitin and Mischa Kuball, is available under ISBN 978-3-86335-108-3 at the Walther König bookstore.
Mischa Kuball, platon's mirror, Artspace Sydney, Sydney 2011 © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2026, Foto: Silversalt Sydney