DIRECTORY 2025

Karim Bassegoda - Keight | Photography

Karim Bassegoda, also known as Keight, was born in Lausanne in 1988. He lives and works in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, where his studio is near Lausanne. In 2013, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication, majoring in Graphic Design, from the Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL). Throughout his career, his artistic work has been exhibited in different cities worldwide, granting him international exposure. In 2012, he was selected to exhibit at the 2nd Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland in Romania. Following his training at ECAL, he participated in a project for Hors Pistes as part of an artist residency in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where he collaborated with industrial designers, graphic designers, photographers, artists, and artisans. The project was a success, and it was first exhibited in Ouagadougou and later in Europe, including 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, he has developed a growing interest in intercontinental artistic exchanges. He is the winner of the Alfred Latour Art Prize 2023-2024.

Keight is a multidisciplinary artist who explores a variety of experiments and mediums, ranging from “traditional” art to immersive installations and digital works. His references are strongly aligned with artists known for a distinctly visual semiotic, such as Edvard Munch, the Delaunays, and Vasarely, but also with more contemporary creators who blend “graphical” and “metaphysical” dimensions, including Paul Laffoley, Alfred Latour, and Matt Mullican. Equal parts artist and designer and both conceptual and expressionist, Keight takes the viewer on a visual journey through his unique language, peppered with references and symbolic pictograms that circumscribe his abundant yet coherent universe.

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