The Kunsthaus Graz can be read as a utopian building whose roots go back to the late 1960s and are based on concepts such as living architecture and an intelligent exhibition machine. In its organic-technical form, arteries became mobile roller conveyors; the once transparent façade, which was intended to make the life inside the exhibition machine visible, has become a pulsating light façade for the public. The latest work in a current series by Mischa Kuball was inscribed into this very façade on the KLANGLICHT weekend in 2017. Kuball, today one of the most important light artists in the world, showed public preposition / Utopia, a lettering that mutates from the term utopia to dystopia and back again, during the Month of Light 2017. As an endless repetition, it becomes a current reflection of changing perspectives on architectural and social developments here and everywhere.

KLANGLICHT 2017

In the light of the public – public prepositions
Questions about the significance of public space as socio-political material were discussed as part of Licht 2017. With Mischa Kuball, Barbara Steiner, Elisabeth Fiedler and Bernhard Rinner. Moderated by Katrin Bucher Trantow.

Location: Kunsthaus