Molitor & Kuzmin
Molitor & Kuzmin are a collaborative duo of visual artists, who are classified as light art and installation artists. Ursula Molitor (born June 6, 1947, in Hermannsburg, Lower-Saxony) is a German artist, graphic designer and light artist. She studied graphic design in Hamburg and later worked as a graphic artist and illustrator. Since 1983 she has been working as a freelance artist in Cologne, Germany. Vladimir Kuzmin (born October 16, 1943, in Zaporizhchja, Soviet Union, today Ukraine) is a Russian artist. He studied architecture in Moscow and worked as a freelance artist in the field of painting and graphic design in Moscow. Since 1992 he has been living and working in Cologne. Since 1996, together they have formed the artist duo Molitor & Kuzmin. In their installations and Light art objects they work with the play of light and shadow, with contrasts and paradoxes. Preferred materials include fluorescent lamps that they deploy like modules, as design elements of their artworks. At a remove from their original meaning, these modules are combined into artefacts, whose technical character and materiality appear to dissolve in radiant brightness, resulting in a work which presents light: Die Leuchtstoffröhre ist Form und Farbe zugleich. (in English: The fluorescent tube is form and colour as well.) Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle, Germany Artothek Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany Collection Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany Sparkasse KölnBonn, Cologne, Germany IKK Bundesverband, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Deutschland L'Association Mouvement Art Contemporain (AMAC), Chamalières, France ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow, Russia Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia 2004: Light Art Prize LUX US, City Museum of Lüdenscheid, Germany 2010: International André-Evard Art Award, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel, Germany 2015: International Lucas-Cranach-Prize, Kronach, Germany 2016: International André-Evard Art Award, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel, Germany 2009: Ohne Titel, Light art Installation im Dachgiebel, Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle, Germany 2016: Ein Pilgerstab für Soest, Light art Installation, Soest, Germany 1999: Galleria Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padua, Italy 2000: Video- und Light art Installation, St.
