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

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Lightinstallation "Do we need Light?" photographed on the occasion of the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 2022

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.[1] 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.[2]

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.) [3]

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Molitor & Kuzmin Installation Frachtgut, 1998
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Molitor & Kuzmin Lichtinstallation Porta Savonarola, Padua, Italien, 2001
  • 1999: Galleria Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padua, Italy
  • 2000: Video- und Light art Installation, St. Gereon's Basilica, Cologne, Germany
  • 2000: Millennium, St.Petri Kirche Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
  • 2000: ZeitRäume, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
  • 2001: Light, Galleria Fioretto Arte Contemporanea, Padua, Italy
  • 2001: Light art Installation in Porta Savonarola,[11] Padua, Italy
  • 2003: Fiat Lux, Galerie Schröder und Dörr, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
  • 2006: Fiat Lux, Krokin Gallery,[17] Moscow, Russia
  • 2007: Paradisi Gloria - 4 Licht-und Videoinstallationen zu den Konzerten, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Munich, Germany
  • 2008: In a different Light, Shchusev Museum of Architecture,[18] Moscow, Russia
  • 2010: ÖffentLicht, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders[19] Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
  • 2010: Requiem,[11] Projekt im Tschechow-Theater, Moscow, Russia
  • 2010: Et fact est Lux,[20] White Square Gallery, Berlin, Deutschland
  • 2016: Take me to the Light,[21] Galerie Floss & Schultz, Cologne, Germany
  • 2022: Extended,[22] Museum L (Muze’um L Licht en Landschap), Roeselare, Belgium
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Molitor & Kuzmin Lichtinstallation, Römerturm, Köln, 2000
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