Arts at CERN

Monika Emmanuelle Kazi’s practice explores gesture, nostalgia, emotion and architecture through domestic spaces in which a memory reflects on the intimacy of the home, the use of territory and the construction of heritage.

Kazi is a French-Congolese artist based in Geneva. With a master’s degree in visual arts from HEAD-Geneva. Her practice is filled of organic installations incorporating video, performance and writing. Interested in haptics and machine learning, her installations are made up of objects, family archives and research that form part of a system of visual and everyday references called iso-object (ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization).

Between documentary and fiction, the artist integrates her personal memories into broader, global narratives, to elucidate the stories and subtexts that shape our everyday lives.

Laureate of the Kiefer-Hablitzel Art Prize in 2021 and the Bally Artist Award 2024. She has exhibited in several places as Kunsthalle Friart in Fribourg, MASI in Lugano, Palais de l’Athénée in Geneva, Villa du Parc in Annemasse. In collective exhibitions, her work has been presented in FMAC, Palais de Tokyo, Marnix Castle, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Futura-Prague, CAC-Genève, among others.

Kazi has been selected for the second edition of the Resonance residency.