Oubey Mindkiss

They live in complex, stable groups, communicate with one another over long distances, develop regional dialects, and call each other by name. They play together, learn from one another, form deep emotional bonds, and possess individual self-awareness and self-recognition.

Perhaps it was coincidence; perhaps unseen interactions behind the scenes played their part. However it may have come about, the year 1907 marks a turning point in our thinking and in our culture.

No other celestial body comes as close to Earth as the Moon. Especially as a full moon, bathed in the dazzling floodlight of the Sun, its appearance has always stirred emotions, thoughts, and fantasies in human beings. It has served as a projection screen for longings and fears, a timekeeper of the night, and a silent companion to life on Earth.

In 1858, two mathematicians independently discovered something astonishing: a strip twisted around its own axis with only one side and one edge.

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.

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.

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

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.

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”  

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

...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.