Mischa Kuball (b. 1959, D\u00fcsseldorf; lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf) investigates public and institutional spaces and the social and political discourses that shape them. At the invitation of the Draiflessen Collection and with support from the Nolde Stiftung, the conceptual artist grappled with the life and oeuvre of the painter Emil Nolde (1867\u20131956) and created a body of work titled Nolde\/critique\/Kuball. In piece after piece, Kuball drains Nolde\u2019s works of the colors that made the Expressionist famous, challenging the beholder\u2019s preconceptions and examining perception and its constituent processes. Laid out in black and white, the book accordingly directs our attention not only to what a picture shows, but also to how structures and organizing principles emerge into view.<\/p>\n
Mischa Kuball has been professor of public art at the Kunsthochschule f\u00fcr Medien K\u00f6ln, and associate professor of media art at the Staatliche Hochschule f\u00fcr Gestaltung\/ZKM Karlsruhe since 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Emil Nolde (1867\u20131956) ranks among the best-known classic modernists. Contemporary perceptions of the artist and his oeuvre are informed by mythmaking as well as its deconstruction. After the Second World War, Nolde himself and art historians of the time portrayed him as a victim of Nazi persecution. More recent critics have drawn attention to his anti-Semitic views and his opportunism in his dealings with the Nazi authorities.<\/p>\n
With support from the Nolde Foundation, Seeb\u00fcll, the D\u00fcsseldorf-based conceptual artist Mischa Kuball (b. 1959) delved into the documentary record to shed light on this profoundly ambivalent figure and frame a critical perspective on Emil Nolde\u2019s output and actions. The first fruits of his endeavors were shown at the Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, in the winter of 2020\u20132021.<\/p>\n
Kuball continued his research at the invitation of the documenta archive, Kassel. Based on his findings, the exhibition project \u201cnolde \/ kritik \/ documenta\u201d illuminates the ways in which life and oeuvre are interwoven and inquires into the contradictions of modernism, which Emil Nolde as a man and artist may be said to have embodied. The focus of the new project is on the staging of Nolde\u2019s works at the first three editions of the documenta exhibition series (1955, 1959, 1964), which were instrumental to establishing the \u201cNolde myth.\u201d<\/p>\n
An enlarged and revised edition of the catalogue \u201cnolde \/ kritik \/ documenta\u201d is released in conjunction with the exhibition at the Fridericianum, Kassel (December 9, 2022\u2013February 19, 2023).<\/p>\n
Mischa Kuball has been professor of public art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and associate professor of media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design\/ZKM since 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17400,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2212],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17401","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-installation-art","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n