Molitor & Kuzmin

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Molitor & Kuzmin is an artist duo, consisting of Ursula Molitor and Vladimir Kuzmin, who realize light art objects and light installations .

life and work

Installation "Freight", 1998

Ursula Molitor (born June 6, 1947 in Hermannsburg , Lower Saxony ) is a German graphic designer and light artist. She studied graphic design in Hamburg and then worked as a graphic designer and illustrator . She has been working as a freelance artist in Cologne since 1983.

Vladimir Kuzmin (born October 16, 1943 in Zaporozhye , Soviet Union , today Ukraine ) is a Russian painter and light artist. He studied architecture in Moscow and worked as a freelance artist in the field of painting and printmaking in Moscow. He has lived and worked in Cologne since 1992.

Since 1996 both have formed the artist duo Molitor & Kuzmin . For their installations and light art objects, they work with the play of light and shadow, with contrasts and paradoxes. The preferred working material are industrial fluorescent tubes , which they use artistically like modules. Relieved of their original meaning, they are put together to create light works of art, the technical character and materiality of which seem to dissolve into radiant brightness and bring the light to effect as such: “ The fluorescent tube is form and color at the same time. “( White Square Gallery : Parcours 11. Berlin Art: A Selection from the Last 100 Years. )

Works in collections (selection)

Nominations

Art in public space

  • 2009: Untitled - light installation in the roof gable , Kunstmuseum Celle with the Robert Simon Celle collection, Germany
  • 2016: A pilgrim's staff for Soest , light art object, Soest , Germany

Solo exhibitions Molitor & Kuzmin (selection)

Light installation “Porta Savonarola”, Padua, Italy, 2001

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

Light installation, Römerturm, Cologne, 2000

literature

  • Inge Baecker (Ed.): St. Gereon modern art in the liturgical year: An exhibition project in the period from Easter 1996 to Easter 2003 . Klaus Bittner, Cologne 2003, ISBN 978-3-926397-10-2 (Contributors: Karl J. Daverkausen, Christa Stehmans, Oliver Pütz, Simon Pütz, Renate Pütz).
  • Werner Schäfke (Ed.): Am Römerturm. Two millennia of a Cologne district . Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-927396-99-9 (it contains an article with a picture of the exhibition by Molitor & Kuzmin in the Römerturm / Galerie Inge Baecker in 2000).
  • Museum of Architecture, Moscow (ed.): Molitor + Kuzmin . Kettler, Dortmund 2008, ISBN 978-3-941100-44-2 .
  • Jürgen Kisters, Petra Oelschlägel, Wolfgang Vomm: molitor & kuzmin: public light. Exhibition catalog . Municipal Gallery Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-9810401-7-3 .
  • Julia Otto, Robert Simon (Ed.): Headlights - Current light art in Germany in the 21st century . 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0056-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ molitor & kuzmin. In: youngcollectors.de. Retrieved April 23, 2017 .
  2. ^ Gisela Schwarz: artist duo Molitor & Kuzmin. Light as a bridge. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . April 21, 2014, accessed April 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Parcours 11. Berlin Art: A selection from the last 100 years. Berlin is more of a part of the world than a city. Jean Paul . White Square Gallery, accessed March 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ light art. Kunstmuseum Celle with the Robert Simon collection , accessed on March 19, 2017 .
  5. ^ Artists of the Artothek. Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders , accessed on March 19, 2017 .
  6. ^ Art in a circle. Represented artists Molitor & Kuzmin. In: Art Museum Villa Zanders . Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
  7. ^ Oswald Bubel, Simon Oos: Collection Schroth . 2015, ISBN 978-3-9810401-7-3 .
  8. ^ Molitor & Kuzmin. In: Art4.ru. Retrieved March 19, 2017 .
  9. ^ Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Moscow Museum of Modern Art, accessed April 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Homepage. National Center for Contemporary Arts, accessed April 26, 2017 .
  11. ↑ light art. Kunstmuseum Celle with the Robert Simon collection, accessed on March 19, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Bettina Boronowsky: Pilgrim staff may shine. In: Soester Anzeiger. March 8, 2016, accessed April 27, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Klaus Bunte: Neon Blue radiance on Soest Station. The light art project A Pilgrims Staff for Soest has finally been implemented - and cannot be overlooked. October 21, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Hellweg - a light path - introduction. In: Hellweg - a light path. Retrieved April 27, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Krokin Gallery. Krokin Gallery, accessed April 26, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Schusev State Museum of Architecture. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  17. ↑ molitor & kuzmin - public light. Exhibition in the series on-site appointment. Retrieved April 27, 2017 .
  18. ↑ ME. Art in Space. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Inge Baecker Gallery - Exhibition Archive 1983–2002. In: Galerie Baecker. Retrieved April 27, 2017 .
  20. ^ Villa Zanders - exhibition archive. Retrieved April 27, 2017 .
  21. ^ City of Bochum (ed.): KunstLichtTore . City of Bochum, Bochum 2006, DNB  983303088 .
  22. ↑ Pas de deux - How the pictures look alike. 15 years of Artothek. Villa Zanders , accessed May 7, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Light Worlds. (PDF, 302 kB) In: Galerie Inge Baecker. Retrieved April 30, 2017 (invitation to the exhibition).
  24. ↑ Light molitor & kuzmin - Jan van Munster. In: Kunstmuseum Celle. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  25. ↑ clearings. City of Hildesheim, accessed on May 7, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Ceci n'est pas une lamp ... and yet the works shine. In: Darmstadt Secession. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Headlights. Light art in Germany in the 21st century. Kunstmuseum Celle, 2014, accessed on March 18, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Diversity instead of simplicity. 20 years of Artothek. Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders , 2014, accessed on May 7, 2017 (including press review).
  29. ↑ molitor & kuzmin. City of Hildesheim, accessed on May 7, 2017 (including photos of the works by Molitor & Kuzmin).
  30. ^ Rolf-Dieter Diehl: Signal with aha effect . Light art as a biotope for dying lighting technologies and development fields for new ones. (PDF; 280 kB) In: Cellesche Zeitung . March 21, 2017, Retrieved May 25, 2017 (article reproduced on the museum's website).
  31. ↑ Exhibition information from the Center for International Light Art Unna. September 12, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  32. ↑ Collumina project - Molitor & Kuzmin. In: collumina.de. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .