ABOUT KEIGHT
BIOGRAPHY
My name is Karim Bassegoda, aka Keight, I was born in Lausanne in 1988. I live and work in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, where my studio is located, near the city of Lausanne. In 2013, I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication, majoring in Graphic Design, from the Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL).
Throughout my career, my artistic work has been exhibited in different cities around the world, lending it international exposure. In 2012, I was selected to exhibit at the 2nd Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, in Romania; then, following my training at ECAL, I took part in a project for Hors Pistes as part of an artist residency in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where I worked together with industrial designers, graphic designers, photographers, artists, and artisans. The project was a success and was exhibited first in Ouagadougou, and then in Europe via Paris, Brussels, Milan, and Lausanne. As a finalist and exhibitor at various national and international competitions in Rome, London, Paris, Gimpo (near Seoul), Geneva, Martigny, and Lausanne, I became increasingly interested in intercontinental artistic exchanges.
Next to my artistic work, in which I develop my visual language and offer various workshops, I studied at the University of Teacher Education (HEPL) in Vaud, where I received a Master of Arts in Visual Arts Education in 2019. I then continued in the pedagogical field at the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET), where I completed my training with a federal diploma in teaching Design and Media.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 : Solo Show at CICA Museum, South Korea.
2022 : Metadiscovery : the vagaries of consciousness. ArtNow Projects Gallery, Geneva.
2011 : Marin ! Têtard School of Visual Art, Lausanne.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 : Rencontres photographiques, Arles, France.
2023-2024: Kunstsupermarkt 24, Solothurn, Switzerland.
2023: Social, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.
2023: Breath, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.
2023: Circle, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.
2023: Art on display, Arty Show, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2023: CPNV, Yverdon, Payerne, Sainte-Croix, Switzerland.
2023: Emergence, Artistik Rezo Gallery, Paris, France.
2022: 60 Rue Ancienne, ArtNow Projects Gallery, Geneva.
2021: International Online Art Exhibition VAA 2021, London.
2016, 2019, 2020: Hors Piste project with Jean Nouvel Design in Paris, France, then in Brussels and Grand-Hornu in Belgium, and at the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (mudac) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
2012: International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Szeklerland, Romania.
2011: Monstre Festival of Micropublishing, Geneva.
2009-2013: Handk Community Art Studio in Malley, Lausanne.
PRIZES, DISTINCTIONS, RESIDENCIES
2024: Publication of the art book Meta-discovery
2023: Winner of the Alfred Latour Award 2023-2024
2021: Finalist at the London International Creative Competition online exhibition.
2021: Finalist at the Prisma Art Prize online exhibition.
2013: Hors Piste project residency in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
2012: Selected for Gender Equality Now project, Poster for Tomorrow.
2011: Selected for the No Nukes Poster project.
TEACHING
2011 to Today: Visual Arts, Design and Multimedia for vocational training.
2013 to 2022: Varied Workshops.
STATEMENT
KEIGHT: SIGNS & EXPERIMENTS
I am a multidisciplinary artist who offers a variety of experiments and mediums, from “traditional” art over immersive installations to digital works. My references are strongly aligned with artists known for a distinctly visual semiotic, such as Edvard Munch, the Delaunays, or Vasarely, but also with more contemporary creators who blend “graphical” and “metaphysical” dimensions, principal among whom are Paul Laffoley, Alfred Latour, and Matt Mullican. Equal parts artist and designer, and both conceptual and expressionist, I take you on a visual journey through my unique language, peppered with references and symbolic pictograms that circumscribe my abundant yet coherent universe. The word “Keight” conjures up the image of a “trapdoor”, and in this way, I have you descend into basements or ascend into attics, to discover the secrets of the psyche that are buried deep or perched up high. Beyond the formal quality of my creations, I invite you to join in a meditative experience, expressed through pieces that are so many states of consciousness, transporting you back to your deepest feelings. Four series summarise and interconnect my exploratory vision of the inwardness necessary to freedom of choice: Life, Society, Death, Metadiscovery. Like the matrices of an ecosystem, they form four gigantic “manifesto” panels that invite us to embrace life, reject social attitudes, face death, and release our energies into the global flow...
AUTHENTICITY
PROOF OF AUTHENTICITY FOR KEIGHT'S WORKS & PRINTS
All works and prints displayed on the website are original works made by hand or printed using artisanal methods of digigraphy, risography, silkscreen printing or piezography (single or double carbon transfer), exist as unique copies numbered 1/1, 1/4, 1/12, 1/36, 1/108 and are pad printed with security inks. At sale, each work is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity issued by the artist himself. The artist reserves the right to keep an artist's print (AP) for exhibitions.
DIGITAL COLLECTIBLES FOR DIGITAL WORKS (NFTs, NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS)
All NFTs minted by the artist are digitally signed, original works from the KeightArt account on OpenSea. The NFT transfer will be done on the Polygon blockchain. Disclaimer: an NFT collected via any another account will not be an original from the artist Keight.
CONTACT
For any inquiries or interest in an artwork, you can contact me via email at keight@keight.art.
ABOUT KEIGHT
BIOGRAPHY
My name is Karim Bassegoda, aka Keight, I was born in Lausanne in 1988. I live and work in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, where my studio is located, near the city of Lausanne. In 2013, I earned a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication, majoring in Graphic Design, from the Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL).
Throughout my career, my artistic work has been exhibited in different cities around the world, lending it international exposure. In 2012, I was selected to exhibit at the 2nd Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, in Romania; then, following my training at ECAL, I took part in a project for Hors Pistes as part of an artist residency in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where I worked together with industrial designers, graphic designers, photographers, artists, and artisans. The project was a success and was exhibited first in Ouagadougou, and then in Europe via Paris, Brussels, Milan, and Lausanne. As a finalist and exhibitor at various national and international competitions in Rome, London, Paris, Gimpo (near Seoul), Geneva, Martigny, and Lausanne, I became increasingly interested in intercontinental artistic exchanges.
Next to my artistic work, in which I develop my visual language and offer various workshops, I studied at the University of Teacher Education (HEPL) in Vaud, where I received a Master of Arts in Visual Arts Education in 2019. I then continued in the pedagogical field at the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET), where I completed my training with a federal diploma in teaching Design and Media.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 : Solo Show at CICA Museum, South Korea.
2022 : Metadiscovery : the vagaries of consciousness. ArtNow Projects Gallery, Geneva.
2011 : Marin ! Têtard School of Visual Art, Lausanne.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 : Rencontres photographiques, Arles, France.
2023-2024: Kunstsupermarkt 24, Solothurn, Switzerland.
2023: Social, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.
2023: Breath, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.
2023: Circle, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea.
2023: Art on display, Arty Show, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2023: CPNV, Yverdon, Payerne, Sainte-Croix, Switzerland.
2023: Emergence, Artistik Rezo Gallery, Paris, France.
2022: 60 Rue Ancienne, ArtNow Projects Gallery, Geneva.
2021: International Online Art Exhibition VAA 2021, London.
2016, 2019, 2020: Hors Piste project with Jean Nouvel Design in Paris, France, then in Brussels and Grand-Hornu in Belgium, and at the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (mudac) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
2012: International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Szeklerland, Romania.
2011: Monstre Festival of Micropublishing, Geneva.
2009-2013: Handk Community Art Studio in Malley, Lausanne.
PRIZES, DISTINCTIONS, RESIDENCIES
2024: Publication of the art book Meta-discovery
2023: Winner of the Alfred Latour Award 2023-2024
2021: Finalist at the London International Creative Competition online exhibition.
2021: Finalist at the Prisma Art Prize online exhibition.
2013: Hors Piste project residency in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
2012: Selected for Gender Equality Now project, Poster for Tomorrow.
2011: Selected for the No Nukes Poster project.
TEACHING
2011 to Today: Visual Arts, Design and Multimedia for vocational training.
2013 to 2022: Varied Workshops.
STATEMENT
KEIGHT: SIGNS & EXPERIMENTS
I am a multidisciplinary artist who offers a variety of experiments and mediums, from “traditional” art over immersive installations to digital works. My references are strongly aligned with artists known for a distinctly visual semiotic, such as Edvard Munch, the Delaunays, or Vasarely, but also with more contemporary creators who blend “graphical” and “metaphysical” dimensions, principal among whom are Paul Laffoley, Alfred Latour, and Matt Mullican. Equal parts artist and designer, and both conceptual and expressionist, I take you on a visual journey through my unique language, peppered with references and symbolic pictograms that circumscribe my abundant yet coherent universe. The word “Keight” conjures up the image of a “trapdoor”, and in this way, I have you descend into basements or ascend into attics, to discover the secrets of the psyche that are buried deep or perched up high. Beyond the formal quality of my creations, I invite you to join in a meditative experience, expressed through pieces that are so many states of consciousness, transporting you back to your deepest feelings. Four series summarise and interconnect my exploratory vision of the inwardness necessary to freedom of choice: Life, Society, Death, Meta-discovery. Like the matrices of an ecosystem, they form four gigantic “manifesto” panels that invite us to embrace life, reject social attitudes, face death, and release our energies into the global flow...
AUTHENTICITY
PROOF OF AUTHENTICITY FOR KEIGHT'S WORKS & PRINTS
All works and prints displayed on the website are original works made by hand or printed using artisanal methods of digigraphy, risography, silkscreen printing or piezography (single or double carbon transfer), exist as unique copies numbered 1/1, 1/4, 1/12, 1/36, 1/108 and are pad printed with security inks. At sale, each work is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity issued by the artist himself. The artist reserves the right to keep an artist's print (AP) for exhibitions.
DIGITAL COLLECTIBLES FOR DIGITAL WORKS (NFTs, NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS)
All NFTs minted by the artist are digitally signed, original works from the KeightArt account on OpenSea. The NFT transfer will be done on the Polygon blockchain. Disclaimer: an NFT collected via any another account will not be an original from the artist Keight.
CONTACT
For any inquiries or interest in an artwork, you can contact me via email at keight@keight.art.
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