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Judith Kakon (1988, Basel, Switzerland), currently lives and works in Basel. She received her Master in Fine Arts from Bard MFA, New York (2017) and her Bachelor’s degree from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2013). The starting point for her work is often an observation of our urban environment and the implicit politics in its everyday design. Based on these observations, she has created a series of conceptual sculptures, installations, images and texts that explore the reciprocal relationships between society and commerce, public and institutional space, industrial production and ancient craft. In many of her projects, she worked with slight but deliberate spatial and semantic shifts that raise questions about how public space is regulated, for whom and to whom it belongs. Recent shows were hosted by venues such as Gauli Zitter, Brussels (2024), For, Basel (2023) La Criée, centre d’art contemporain, Rennes (2023), Kunsthalle Basel (2020), COALMINE, Winterthur (2020), SALTS, Birsfelden (2019), Anorak/Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2018), Riverside Space, Worblaufen (2018), Alexander Bürkle Foundation, Freiburg (2017), Kunsthaus Langenthal (2017), Studioli, Rome (2016), Taylor Macklin, Zurich (2015), Kunsthaus Glarus (2015). In 2021 she received the Manor Art Prize of the Canton of Schaffhausen, in connection with which she exhibited her work at the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen and released her book Stolen Language with Mousse Publishing.