Ilona Karácsony
Artist
Ilona Karácsony (Bremen, Germany) was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her artistic practice includes masks and installations that interact with the site-specific conditions through light and shadow. Recurring themes in her work are social inequality, transience, perceptions of identity, and migration, often placed in a mythological context. In 2013, she moved from Budapest to Berlin to study at the Berlin University of the Arts, and in 2023, she relocated to Bremen to pursue a Masters degree. Constantly moving between her hometown and Germany, and now in South Africa, her current work revolves around being an outsider while belonging to multiple communities.