Ramishvili, Koka

Koka Ramishvili born in 1956 in Tbilisi. Lives and works in Tbilisi and Geneva.

  • 1975–1980 Studied at the faculty of industrial graphics at the State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi
  • 1997–1999 Co-ordinator of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Tbilisi, editor of SIGNAL, a periodical on contemporary visual culture
  • 1999–2009 Co-ordinator of the Association for Cultural Exchange between Switzerland and Georgia
  • Since 2007 professor at the State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi

Solo exhibitions (selected)

  • 1996 Loop the Loop, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
  • 2003 Story of Kaspar Hauser, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva
  • 2005 Sculptures Interdites, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva / Platform for Events, MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva
  • 2009 Anonymous, Häusler Contemporary, Munich / Change in Drawing Orchestra, 53rd Venice Biennale, Georgian Pavilion

Group exhibitions (selected)

  • 2004 Neo Geo, Russian National Gallery, Moscow
  • 2005 1st Biennale in Moscow
  • 2006 Post-Soviet photography, Tate Modern, London
  • 2007 Progressive Nostalgia, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato/Italy
  • 2008 A Black and White Affair, Goethe Institute in Georgia
  • 2009 Born in Georgia, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam