Molitor & Kuzmin


Molitor & Kuzmin are a collaborative duo of visual artists, who are classified as light art and installation artists.

Life and work

Ursula Molitor 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 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.''

Collections

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Nominations

Art in public places

Solo exhibitions (selection)

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Group exhibitions (selection)

[file:Molitor & Kuzmin Lichtinstallation, Galerie Inge Baecker, 2000, Römerturm, Köln.jpg |thumb|Molitor & Kuzmin Lichtinstallation, Römerturm, Köln, 2000]