Koka Ramishvili
Born in Tbilisi (Georgia), Georgia, ex-URSS.
Lives and works in Geneva, CH
Koka Ramishvili, who was born and raised in then Soviet Georgia, belongs to the generation which is now referred as the "last Soviet generation". It possesses extremely specific historical experience and cultural consciousness. Connection of this generation to the cult of the modernity served by Soviet project in very radical, sometimes even repressive radical forms, is very obvious. At the same time it was the "last Soviet generation" that took criticism of the Soviet modernity, developed from the end of 1960ies in the public opinion, for granted. This criticism remained justified and invariably urgent as that modernity refused to accept it on the level of ideology almost until the very last moment. (Viktor Misiano)
Born in Tbilisi (Georgia), Georgia, ex-URSS.
Lives and works in Geneva, CH
solo show:
2010
"Double" Artra, Milan
"Shift" Gala Gallery, Tbilisi
2009
“Anonimus” Hausler Contemporary, Munchen, Germany,
“Drawings” Edward Mitterrand Gallery, Zurich, CH
2008
“Other Book” Gallery Edward Mitterrand , Geneva, CH
2005
“Forbiden sculptures“ Gallery Edward Mitterand , Geneva, CH
Platforms for events MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Geneva
2003
"Drawing Lesson" Guelman Gallery, Moscow
"Drawing Lesson" MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Geneva, CH
2002
Storry of Kaspar Hauser, Gallery Edward Mitterand , Geneva, CH
1995
"Don't Follow yourself it's dangerous for you", Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna
"Loop the Loop", Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1994
"Collection of the Bad and Wrong Words“, Kulturmanagment Hausler GmbH, Munich
1991
"New work...", Hause der Kulture der Welt Berlin, Germany
group show:
2011
"Imago", Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Curated by Nini Palavandishvili. Artists: Group Bouillon, What’s (Vajiko Chachkhiani), Thea Djordjadze, David Meskhi, Salome Machaidze, Koka Ramishvili. Leipzig, Germany.
2010
12 CAIRO Biennale, Cairo, Egipt.
"Three years", mitterrand+sanz.
The melancholy of resistance, works from the M Kha Collection, Torun, Poland
2009
"Change in Drawing orchestra", Georgian Pavilion, 53 International Biennale in Venice
"October. exit, memory, desire", ARTRA, Milan, IT
“Born in Georgia”, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, Nl,
“Given Difference”, 2nd Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York,
53 Kurzfilm festival in Obehousen, Germany, Goethe Instiut in Berlin, Germany
2008
Eine Schwarz-Weisse Angelegenheit Goethe Instistut in Georgia
Fine Art Museum of Nantes, Nantes, France
“Private Eye” Hausler Contemporary, Munchen, Germany
2007
Dnevnik Xydojnika in Frame of Moscow,Biennale, Moscow
My Backyard, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York
Progressive Nostalgia, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
2006
Art Moscow, Center of contemporary art. Version, Digital Biennial, Geneva, Center of Moving image
Post Soviet photographie, (panel speach and presentation ) Tate Modern, London
2004
Neo-Geo, Russian National Gallery. Moscow
Art Fair Bruxelles, Belgium
Impakt Festival for experimental video and audio, Utrecht, NL
Digital 2004, Bienalle 2005 in Moscow, Russia
2002
EXPO-02, PhotoforumPascuaArt, CentrePascuaArt, Bienne, CH
"ça raconte quoi ?"CREDAC (Centre de recherches, d’échanges et de
diffusion pour l’art contemporain), Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris
"Landscape and Territory", N Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
"Quoi de 9/11 photographs de Genève et de la région lémanique", Centre de la Photographie, Genéve
2003-Digital Russia, Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2001
Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albany
1999-2000
"Au verso de l’histoire" Centre d’Art Contemporain « La Ferme de Buisson
», Marne-laVallée. Paris, France Contemporary Art Museum in Thessalonici,Greece
"Camouflage", Maison de l’Europe, Geneva, CH
"Stockholm connection", Attitudes, Geneva, CH
"After the wall", Moderna Museum Stockholm. Ludvig Museum, Budapest, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin,
"Here nor there" - Cube, Bristol, UK, "Electronic December", Watershed, Bristol, UK
1996
"Entre Photographie et Peinture", Institute IFA, Berlin
"Ostranenie 97", Electronic Art Media Forum, Bauhaus, Germany
"Hybrid Factory", (Ars Electronica) Linz, Austria
1995
"Media-Space", National Museum, Tbilisi,
"Cartesian reflection and experience of Heart" Contemporary Art Museum Tsaritsino, Moscow
1994
Biennale Art Contemporary, Cetinje, Monténégro, Ex-Yugoslavia,
"Europe 94", Munich, Germany
1993
"Sector of Visual Investigation", Tbilisi
"Artist, Time, Space...”, Contemporary Art Museum, Tsaritsino, Moscow
1992
"Heat and Conduct", Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
"Actionsforum", Praterinsel, Munich
"Rooms", Musée National, Prague
"World of Feeling", Centre of the contempory Art, Moscow
"New Names", Contemporary Art Museum Tsaritsino, Moscow
1990
"Expression", Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
"Zietbezünglich", Kunstverein, Dilingen, Germany
Grants and prix:
2003-2004
Department des Affaires culturelles Ville de Geneva, CH.
1997-1998
Soros Foundation in Georgia, Foundation Marian Stiftung, Basel, CH,
Watershed, Bristol, UK
1996-1997
Residence in the Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Germany,
Prix international for the video installation „Signal“, International
Electronic Art Media Forum in Bauchaus, Ostranenie 97, Germany
1995-1996
For video. Ministery of the Culture and Education,Vienne
1997-1999
Coordinator of the Centre of contemporary art in Tbilisi
1990-1994
Studio Prof. Wolfgang Flatz, Munich
1975-1980
Academy of the Art and Architecture, (cinema, design industrial), Tbilisi,
Georgia
