PROJECT - OUBEY MINDKISS

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December 30, 2015

What makes OUBEY MINDKISS special and unique?

May 17, 2016

Prof. Lawrence Krauss

Thoughts & Insights

June 19, 2011

From Being to Becoming …

MINDKISS

The MINDKISS Project aims to make the work of the artist OUBEY posthumously accessible to a broad public. From day one of the Project in an experimental open-ended process a worldwide intercultural and interdisciplinary resonance space for OUBEYs art was created and has continued to develop and grow: the “Expanding Universe of OUBEY MINDKISS”.

December 4, 2025

Short Stories about the Sparks in the OUBEY MINDSPACE – Episode 6: Frank Zappa

One month after the release of his final work “The Yellow Shark”, Frank Zappa died on December 4, 1993, at the age of 52. This year, he would have turned 85 on December 21.

November 5, 2025

Short Stories About the Sparks in the OUBEY MINDSPACE – Episode 5: The Studio

Art comes into being first and foremost within the inner space of the artist — in their brain, their mind, their soul. That is where the sources of creative power lie.

October 19, 2025

Short stories about the Sparks in the OUBEY MINDSPACE – Episode 4: Space Colonies

We search for life on other planets and explore the possibilities of extraterrestrial intelligence. Perhaps one day we humans will colonize space ourselves?

September 23, 2025

Short Stories About the Sparks in the OUBEY MINDSPACE – Episode 3: Leibniz

OUBEY dedicated one of his early paintings to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s monadology. I saw this painting for the first time in the summer of 1983.

August 17, 2025

Short Stories About the Sparks in the OUBEY MINDSPACE – Episode 2: The Horsehead Nebula

About 1,500 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Orion, there is a dark nebula. A dark field that cannot compete with the breathtaking beauty of the “Three Pillars of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula. Nevertheless, its silhouette is no less fascinating. It is named after it: “Horsehead Nebula”

Short Stories About the Sparks in the OUBEY MINDSPACE – Episode 1: THE FERN

In the Carboniferous period, ferns that were larger than today formed huge forests together with horsetails and club mosses.

The Pure Joy of Doing

For two years, I dedicated myself entirely to the realization of a dream. Now it has become a reality. And now I’m writing again. About what? Exactly about that.

December 26, 2023

The Best of All Possible Worlds

In his “Monadology” of 1714 Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz developed the argumentative basis for his thesis that this world is the best of all possible worlds. It is hardly surprising that this thesis has repeatedly aroused controversy and flat contradiction since it first appeared.

A Heart´s Desire

Since the 6 July, the largest exhibition in the history of the MINDKISS project, the “Art of Resonance Show” has been taking place in the Mind Museum in Manila. It features 18 analogue paintings by OUBEY together with 8 interactive digital interactions that have emerged from, and correspond with, these analogue paintings. “Why on earth the Philippines of all places? Why Manila?” was a question I was frequently asked in the run-up to the exhibition. There are currently much hotter places for art in Asia.

A Flowering Ensign of the History of Evolution

With the amazing findings from his research into evolution, Charles Darwin revolutionised our view of our world and humankind in the 19th century. One question, however, remained an impenetrable mystery to him.

November 27, 2022

No Biblical Story

An artist travels to three Ukrainian towns. Inmidst the ruins he wants to leave some paintings at the walls of shelled buildings – anonymously. Photos of these paintings start to go viral the next day. Some wonder who might have done this. But the handwriting is unmisunderstandably clear: This was done by Banksy.

August 21, 2022

If I had to bet …

…I would currently bet on the multiverse, said Steven Weinberg, professor of theoretical physics at Texas State University in Austin and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1979 for his groundbreaking work in the development of quantum mechanics, who passed away in July 2021.

From Eyes to Wall

How does a work of art come into being? Impulsively and expressively with brush and palette on canvas, spontaneously as a drawing or study with pencil on paper, with hammer and chisel in hand on stone or with fingers on a keyboard? Or as an already finished image in the mind of an artist?

What does a picture sound like?

Pictures speak their own language. Even though they are seemingly silent, they do communicate with viewers and create a resonance in them. And although they only come to us as the result of an artistic process, and therefore seem static, they carry the process of their creation within them. It sounds and resonates in them.

La famille Ukrainienne

When you think of the work of the Russian-French painter Marc Chagall, the first thing that probably comes to mind are his dreamlike or biblical themes or his stained glass windows which bathe some of the world’s church buildings in such a truly wonderful light.

January 14, 2022

Life is Short as a Pair of Swimming Trunks

Three weeks ago, “between the years”, as I was once again dipping into the shelves of our collected world of books, I spontaneously reached out for two picture books. They lay across the other neatly lined up books which was very much in character with the artist whose work they contained. Herbert Achternbusch.

September 30, 2021

True Worlds

In March 2004 OUBEY announced that he would paint a thousand stars. It was the first time in twenty years that he so concretely envisaged and publicly announced an artistic project. And it was certainly no coincidence that he dedicated this project to the stars.

City of the Future

More than two thirds of all people on this planet live in cities today – and the tendency is rising. Cities made of stone, concrete and asphalt. Cities in which the air is difficult to breath and where the chirping of a bird is drowned out by the noise of traffic. Cities in which streets and parking places take up many times the amount of space available for parks, playgrounds and sports fields. This brings up the question of whether the city of the future will, and should, look like this.

A Quiet Blessing in Noisy Times

This film is simple and difficult at the same time. It’s a joy for the eye, for the ear, and above all for the soul. In times like these. Nomadland – the first film I’ve seen in the cinema for over nine months when the cinemas in Germany were closed because of the pandemic. A great cloud of longing hung over this time. It evaporated for a brief moment after a few minutes in the cinema and then turned into a cloud of happy melancholy that accompanies this film from its beginning to its end.

Beyond Zero – Entropy and Transcendence

“Nature does not know extinction; it only knows transformation. All that science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.” – Wernher von Braun

He accompanies you throughout life

Long time ago, at twelve years old, I sat in front of our tube radio, my big brother’s tape recorder on my lap, microphone in hand, ready to record a new song from the only station that broadcast pop music for an hour every day at 6 p.m. After each announcement, I pressed the record button. This was also the case when a voice unexpectedly reached me from the loudspeaker and electrified me. It was the voice of Bob Dylan.

A Friend in Space

Who doesn’t know them, the lively R2D2 and the stiff highly polished 3-CPO? They’re the companions and helpers of the Star Wars heroes, sometimes even their saviours when the going gets really tough. A lot more than just machines, they have their own personalities which make them not only friends of the heroes but favourites with the audience too. The Hubble Space Telescope is real and has nothing of all this. Even so, it has become the darling not only of scientists but of an interested world audience.

Palm Sunday, or the Spirit in Matter

A palm tree extends its full length, from the root ball to the tips of its fronds, diagonally across an appropriately sized exhibition space. Anselm Kiefer has called this impressive installation “Palm Sunday”.

February 24, 2021

The World in Your Head

Since Plato at the latest, we have been asking ourselves what we actually see when we look at things that are of this world. Which of the things that make up our image of the world exist independently of what we actively perceive; that is when we are awake? And what happens when we are sleeping?

January 23, 2021

Where Time Has No Meaning

Hardly anything else determines our lives and also our attitudes towards life as much as this thing we call time. It is therefore all the more difficult to imagine that there was once a time when there was not even a name for what we refer to as time today.