Mischa Kuball: Goethe | Newton | Galileo

Opening: 29 April 2026, 7 p.m.

The solo exhibition by the light and conceptual artist Mischa Kuball at Casa di Goethe focuses on light and colour as physical and artistic phenomena. At the heart of the exhibition is a work newly developed especially for this location, which deals with the contrasting views of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Isaac Newton on colour theory.

In an installation, Goethe’s and Newton’s theories of light refraction are brought together in a projection onto a rotating body. Movement and superimposition create changing colour constellations. The historical conflict between Newton’s decomposition of white light into spectral colours and Goethe’s emphasis on the interplay of light and darkness forms the conceptual background of the work.

Another work in the exhibition is five suns / after Galileo. It refers to Galileo’s observations of sunspots, which sparked ecclesiastical controversy in the papal city in the early 17th century, thus forming a thematic link within the exhibition context. The work comes from the collection of the Arthena Foundation Düsseldorf and is presented on loan.

Mischa Kuball (*1959, Düsseldorf) has been working with light as an artistic material for many years. His installations are created both in exhibition spaces and in the public space.

The exhibition is produced in cooperation with the kind support and sponsorship of the Arthena Foundation Düsseldorf.