Sonia Kacem
{{Short description|Swiss visual artist (b. 1985)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Sonia Kacem
| image = File:Sonia Kacem.jpg
| caption = Kacem in 2019
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1985}}
| birth_place = Geneva, Romandy, Switzerland
| alma_mater = Geneva University of Art and Design
| occupation = Visual artist
| known_for = Sculpture, installation art
| website = {{Official website|http://www.t293.it/artists/sonia-kacem/ }}
}}
Sonia Kacem (born 1985){{Cite web |last=Angerame |first=Nicola Davide |date=4 July 2016 |title=Sonia Kacem. Intervista con una stella nascente |trans-title=Sonia Kacem. Interview with a rising star |url=https://www.artribune.com/report/2016/07/mostra-sonia-kacem-cac-ginevra/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131062549/https://www.artribune.com/report/2016/07/mostra-sonia-kacem-cac-ginevra/ |archive-date=31 January 2023 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Artribune |language=it-IT}} is a Swiss visual artist, of Swiss and Tunisian descent.{{Cite web |last=Schellenberg |first=Samuel |date=8 November 2014 |title=Sonia Kacem, Textures latentes |trans-title=Sonia Kacem, Latent Textures |url=https://lecourrier.ch/2014/11/28/sonia-kacem-textures-latentes/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Le Courrier |language=fr-FR}} She is known for her sculptures and installation art.{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Sonia Kacem, Loulou |url=https://archive.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/K/kacem.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208235331/https://archive.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/K/kacem.html |archive-date=8 December 2022 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=MAMCO |language=fr}}{{Cite news |date=23 August 2014 |title=Sonia Kacem |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/sonia-kacem |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607122527/https://www.frieze.com/article/sonia-kacem |archive-date=7 June 2023 |access-date=27 September 2022 |work=Frieze |language=en |issue=16 |issn=0962-0672}} She has lived in both Amsterdam,{{Cite web |last= |date=18 November 2020 |title=In 2021, the Zurich Art Prize Goes to Sonia Kacem |url=https://www.artdependence.com/articles/in-2021-the-zurich-art-prize-goes-to-sonia-kacem/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927025857/https://www.artdependence.com/articles/in-2021-the-zurich-art-prize-goes-to-sonia-kacem/ |archive-date=27 September 2022 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=ArtDependence |language=en}} and Geneva.{{Cite web |last=Conti |first=Riccardo |date=21 May 2022 |title=Il senso del colore e dello spazio per Sonia Kacem |trans-title=The sense of color and space for Sonia Kacem |url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com/it/lifestyle/arte/a40060032/sonia-kacem-mostra-milano/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928215433/https://www.harpersbazaar.com/it/lifestyle/arte/a40060032/sonia-kacem-mostra-milano/ |archive-date=28 September 2022 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Harper's Bazaar |language=it-IT}}
Biography
Sonia Kacem was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland. Her mother is Swiss and her father is Tunisian. She studied at Geneva University of Art and Design,{{Cite web |date=19 January 2017 |title=Thomas Huber: extase / Vanessa Billy: Dear Life / Sonia Kacem: Carcasse |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/90075/thomas-huberextasevanessa-billydear-lifesonia-kacemcarcasse/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240710-022706/https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/90075/thomas-huberextasevanessa-billydear-lifesonia-kacemcarcasse/ |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website= |publisher=Centre culturel suisse |language=en |via=e-flux}} where she obtained a bachelor's degree in 2009 and then a master's degree in 2011.
Kacem was the winner of the Manor Cultural Prize 2014;{{Cite web |last=Schuler |first=Denis |date=16 April 2018 |title=Sonia Kacem |url=http://ensemblevide.ch/sonia-kacem/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929053252/http://ensemblevide.ch/sonia-kacem/ |archive-date=29 September 2022 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Ensemble Vide |language=fr-FR}} Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Art Prize in 2015; and the Zurich Art Prize 2021, from the museum Haus Konstruktiv and the Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. From 2016 to 2017, she was awarded a residency and grant from the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, in Amsterdam. In 2019, she was awarded the residency at Pro Helvetia Cairo.{{Cite web |last=Kreil |first=Aymon |date=10 January 2022 |title=Sonia Kacem 'Le Superflu' Haus Konstruktiv / Zurich |url=https://flash---art.com/2022/01/sonia-kacem-le-superflu-haus-konstruktiv-zurich/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706132725/https://flash---art.com/2022/01/sonia-kacem-le-superflu-haus-konstruktiv-zurich/ |archive-date=6 July 2022 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Flash Art |language=en-US}}
Her work is in museum collections, including at Migros Museum of Contemporary Art.{{Cite web |title=Artists: Sonia Kacem |url=https://migrosmuseum.ch/en/artists/sonia-kacem |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240710-025439/https://migrosmuseum.ch/en/artists/sonia-kacem |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst |language=de}}
Solo exhibitions
- 2021, museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland{{Cite web |date=28 October 2021 |title=Sonia Kacem – Le Superflu (Zurich Art Prize 2021) |url=https://www.frieze.com/event/sonia-kacem-le-superflu-zurich-art-prize-2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929053341/https://www.frieze.com/event/sonia-kacem-le-superflu-zurich-art-prize-2021 |archive-date=29 September 2022 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Frieze}}
- 2019, Between the Scenes, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany{{Cite web |date=16 January 2020 |title=Sonia Kacem 'Between the scenes' at Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster |url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/sonia-kacem-between-the-scenes-at-westfalischer-kunstverein-munster-2019-2020 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Mousse Magazine |language=en-US}}
- 2018, Did snow fall on the pyramids?, T293, Rome, Italy{{Cite web |date=7 April 2018 |title=Sonia Kacem |url=https://www.frieze.com/event/sonia-kacem |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929043622/https://www.frieze.com/event/sonia-kacem |archive-date=29 September 2022 |access-date=27 September 2022 |website=Frieze}}
- 2016, Night Shift, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2015, The Flâneur, T293, Naples, Italy
- 2015, Bermuda Triangle, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- 2015, Loulou Replay, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
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Category:Swiss people of Tunisian descent
Category:Geneva University of Art and Design alumni