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

Mischa Kuball, conceptual artist, has been working in the public and institutional sphere since 1977. He uses light as a medium to explore architectural spaces as well as social and political discourses and reflects on a whole variety of aspects from sociocultural structures to architectural interventions as well as emphasizing or reinterpreting their monumental nature and context in architectural history. Public and private space merge into an indistinguishable whole in politically motivated participation projects, providing a platform for communication between the audience, the artist, the work itself and public space.

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