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Judith Kakon (1988 in Basel) is a Swiss artist known for her interdisciplinary works. Her creations explore the interrelations between globalization, society, and commerce. She lives and works in Basel.
Education
[edit]She studied Fine Arts at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, earning her Bachelor’s degree in 2013. In 2016, she completed her studies with a Master of Fine Arts from Bard MFA in New York.
Description of her approach to art
[edit]Her practice spans sculpture, installation, image-making, and text. As an observer and commentator on the interactions between globalization, society, and commerce, she navigates contradictory networks of social norms, image systems, and memories—structures we unconsciously inhabit and by which we are shaped.
Kakon views the exhibition as a medium and considers space as dispositive. Her work investigates the familiar elements surrounding us in everyday life. The motifs are recognizable: fruits, flowers, barriers, candles, Christmas lights, cabinets, ladders, currency symbols, and greetings. However, the perspective she offers on these motifs is anything but ordinary. Through subtly altered reproductions and contextual or spatial shifts, Kakon re-presents the familiar, but now stripped from the hypnosis of daily routine.
A central aspect of her artistic practice is the exhibition medium, which she utilizes for her own works as well as in curatorial and collaborative projects. Her creations bridge stark contrasts—such as past and present—and operate within the tensions of public spaces, commerce, and institutions.
Selected exhibitions
[edit]- 2024: Frac Champagne Ardenne, Reims
- 2024: Gauli Zitter, Brussels
- 2023: For, Basel; La Criée, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes
- 2018: Anorak / Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; Riverside Space, Worblaufen
- 2017: Alexander Bürkle Foundation, Freiburg; Kunsthaus Langenthal
- 2016: Studioli, Rome
- 2015: Taylor Macklin, Zurich; Kunsthaus Glarus
Awards
[edit]In 2021, Kakon was awarded the Manor Art Prize of the Canton of Schaffhausen. As part of this recognition, her works were exhibited at the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen. To mark the occasion, her book *Stolen Language* was published by Mousse Publishing.