Koka Ramishvili

(*1956 in Tbilisi GE, lives and works in Geneva CH). He studied industrial design, architecture and cinema at the Academy of Art in Tbilisi. He is a multidisciplinary artist who has participated since 1990 in important solo and group exhibitions in Berlin and in Glasgow, at Arnolfini in Bristol and Häusler Contemporary gallery in Munich. From 1991 to 1994, he worked at the Wolfgang Flatz ’s studio in Munich. In 1997 he received awards from Bauhaus, for his video installation “Signal”, as well as from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. He moved to Geneva in 2000. His work has since been the subject of many exhibitions at cultural institutions across Europe, such as the Tate Modern in London, the MAMCO in Geneva, the Goethe Institut in Berlin, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the M KHA Contemporary Art Museum in Antwerp, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy and the Cobra Museum in Amsterdam. Koka Ramishvili represented Georgia at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and had a big institutional solo exhibition in Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow. His works have also been exhibited at Häusler Contemporary gallery in Munich and Zurich, the Wallspace Gallery in New York, and in Geneva at attitudes, Edward Mitterrand gallery and Laurence Bernard gallery.

 
Selected works

Koka Ramishvili, Horizon (Chalice), 2023, Watercolour on paper (300g), 68 x 46 cm

Koka Ramishvili, Horizon (Seaside II), 2023, Oil and oilpastel on paper with gesso (300g), 79 x 59 cm

Koka Ramishvili, Study for Take Off... I, 2012, Oil on paper with gesso, 45.3 x 57.6 cm

Koka Ramishvili, Study for Take Off... II, 2012, Oil on paper with gesso, 50 x 65 cm

Koka Ramishvili, Triangle (Turquois Blue and Black), 2020, Oil and amber on wood, in 2 pieces, each 15.5 x 9.5 x 6 cm

Koka Ramishvili, Lost Landscape (Purpur Dark Energy) XXXI, 2016, Oil and amber on wood, 24 x 17 x 12 cm

Koka Ramishvili, After De Chirico (Building III), 2016, Acrylic on cardboard, 42 x 39 x 10 cm

Koka Ramishvili, Lion, 2024, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 cm

Koka Ramishvili, Glowing Fruit, 2024, Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 cm

Solo Shows with Lullin + Ferrari

Koka Ramishvili – H O R I Z O N

27 October 2023 – 20 January 2024

Group shows with Lullin + Ferrari

Surprise, Surprise! Relaunched

100th exhibition at Lullin + Ferrari

Anne-Lise Coste, Slawomir Elsner, Franziska Furter, Eleni Gkinosati, Clare Goodwin, Bob Gramsma, Pierre Haubensak, Mirjam Blanka Inauen, Anna Krammig, Anne Morgenstern, Valentina Pini, Koka Ramishvili, Sebastian Utzni

23 January – 15 February 2025