2010
Ellen Altfest, United States
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, France/Belgium
Marc Ganzglass, United States
Steve Roden, United States
Bill Saylor, United States
Melanie Schiff, United States

2009
Rita Ackermann, United States
Adam Davies, United States
Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Germany
Mischa Kuball, Germany
Sarah McEneaney, United States
Alex Schweder, United States

2008
Mark Flood, United States
Erik Göngrich, Germany
Monika Grzymala, Germany
Charline von Heyl, United States
Jason Tomme, United States
Jeff Zilm, United States

2007
Joanne Greenbaum, United States
Adam Helms, United States
Claudia Hinsch, Germany
Annette Kisling, Germany
Michael Krumenacker, United States
Paul Lee, United States
Daniel Sturgis, United Kingdom

2006
Oliver Croy, Austria
Mikael Levin, United States
Brian Kirk Nelms, United States
Jesus Palomino, Spain
Petra Trenkel, Germany
Christopher Wool, United States

2005
Mai Braun, Finland
Shane Huffman, United States
Maureen Gallace, United States
Isa Melsheimer, Germany
Wilhelm Sasnal, Poland

2004
Gail Peter Borden, United States
Christian Freudenberger, Germany
Matthew Day Jackson, United States
Corinna Schnitt, Germany
Monique van Genderen, United States
Heike Weber, Germany
Michael Yoder, United States

2003
Ariane Epars, Switzerland
Lies Kraal, The Netherlands
Thomas Müller, Germany
Avery Preesman, The Netherlands
Erwin Redl, Austria
Judi Werthein, Argentina

2002
Gudrun Flach, Germany
Jaroslaw Flicinski, Poland
Hlynur Hallsson, Iceland
Graciela Hasper, Argentina
Nestor Kruger, Canada
Albrecht Kunkel, Germany
Katherine Merz, United States

2001
Susan Chorpenning, United States
Julian Dashper, New Zealand
Howard Goldkrand, United States
Christina Hejtmanek, United States
Emi Winter, Mexico

2000
Margrét Haraldsdóttir Blöndal, Iceland
Andrea Claire, United States
Katharina Hinsberg, Austria
Michael Meredith, United States
Andreas Schmid, Germany

1999
Alexander Braun, Germany
Katharina Grosse, Germany
Ann-Michele Morales, United States
Makato Sasaki, Japan
Claudia Schmacke, Germany
Richard Wearn, New Zealand

1998
Degenhard Andrulat, Germany
Igor Antic, France
John Beech, United States
Jeff Elrod, United States
Kumiko Kurachi, Japan
Valérie Mréjen, France

1997
Bernhard Härtter, Germany
Leonard Kemp, United States
Ulrike Kessl, Germany
Kathranne Knight, United States
Polly Lanning Sparrow, United States
Jennifer Siegal, United States
Daniela Steinfeld Rau, Germany
Karien Vandekerkhove, Belgium

1996
Angela Ferreira, Portugal
Jutta Glöckner, Great Britain
Mary Ellen Latas, United States
Sigrun Paulsen, Germany
Kate Shepherd, United States
Jurek Wybraniec, Australia

1995
Jim Malone, United States
Elizabeth McBride, United States
Carina Plath, Germany
Richard Schwartzwald, United States
Gwendolyn Smolka, Germany

1994
Rupert Deese, United States
Anders Kruger, Denmark
Joost van Oss, The Netherlands
Regina Stralka, Germany
Karen and Jörg Berg, Germany

1993
Stephan Baumkötter, Germany
Daniel Göttin, Switzerland
Andreas Karl Schulze, Germany
Sonny Thorbjirnsdottir, Iceland

1992
Ingólfur Arnarsson, Iceland
Nadja Nanopoulos, Greece

1991
Brian Wendleman, Sweden

1990
Ragna Hermannsdóttir, Iceland

1989
John Wesley, United States

Mischa Kuball

Mischa Kuball creates light- and video-based installations—"situations" is perhaps the better word—in response to specific locations. He's interested in the way ingrained notions of public and private are staged, enforced, or traduced in modern urban spaces, and often uses the medium of light to confuse or collapse conventional distinctions: interior/exterior, public/private, architecture/non-architecture, etc.

Kuball has been working since the mid-1980s and has developed his "situations" in a great variety of media, mediums, and contexts. A few examples: for Refraction House (1994), the artist installed floodlights inside an old synagogue—active long ago, now converted into a memorial space where artists are invited to make work—in the small town of Stommeln, Germany. Trained at the synagogue's windows and left on twenty-four hours a day, the floodlights irradiated both the building and the area surrounding it with a brilliant luminescence. FlashBoxOldenburg (2005) was developed as a two-part installation for the town of Oldenburg, Germany. Two exhibition venues were emptied of their wares, lined with aluminum foil, and equipped with 36,000-watt stroboscopic lights. At the same time, in response to a request published in the local paper, sixty Oldenburg homeowners agreed to have seventeen-watt flashing stroboscopic lights attached to the front of their houses. The result: a citywide colloquy (or din) of light.

At the Locker Plant, Kuball showed a video, Public Proposition no. 2, which documents three "performances" he has produced during his stay at Marfa: one occurring at Chinati's temporary exhibition space, one at the Locker Plant, and one at the crossing of Highland Avenue and Texas Street. The video was projected from floor to ceiling in the Locker Plant's small back room and was made using a few simple devices: a videocamera with a fan attached to it and a NASA-designed "space blanket." (Made of a foil-like material, the blankets are silver in color on one side, gold on the other.) For the two interior scenes, Kuball simply turned on the camera/fan and aimed it at the blanket lying on the floor. The blanket stirred in the breeze and, "director" in pursuit, began to move restlessly about, flashing now gold, now silver, until it was finally cornered against a wall. The outdoor segment of the video, filmed from a fixed, security-camera-like position to the side of the Highland and Texas intersection, showed the blanket moving fitfully in the wind while cars and trucks slowed and sleered around it. All three segments of the video suggested dance—an improvesed choreography of animagte and inanimate materials.

Mischa Kuball was born in Düsseldorf, where he lives today with his family. He has created and exhibited work internationally for many years, and is currently a professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
More of his work can be seen at www.mischakuball.com.