Kakan Hermansson

WAY gallery presents The Last Meal, a solo exhibition by Kakan Hermansson. Taking Aileen Wuornos’s life and fate as a starting point, Hermansson explores revenge, vulnerability, guilt and redemption.

Kakan Hermansson (b. 1981, Lund, Sweden) is an artist based in Stockholm. Working primarily with ceramics, alongside textiles, film and installation, she explores questions of power, class, sexuality and violence through a feminist perspective. Her practice connects personal narratives with political structures, examining whose experiences are recognised and how hierarchies of taste and value take shape within art and society.

Hermansson holds an MFA in Ceramics and Glass from Konstfack (2012). Her work has been exhibited at Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Borås Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum and Sandgrund Lars Lerin, among others. She is a founding member of the artist collective Den Nya Kvinnogruppen.

Her art is rooted in an analysis of power, encompassing class, sexuality, violence, and aesthetic values. Craft holds a central place in her work, serving as a recurring reference to tradition and meaning, while she consistently looks toward the home and everything it entails. Hermansson works with ceramics, glass, and textiles.