Koka Ramishvili
Multimeda
Biography
Koka Ramishvili was born in 1956, in Tbilisi. He lives and works in Geneva. He studied industrial design, architecture and cinema at the Academy of Art in Tbilisi. Koka Ramishvili one of the key artist of contemporary art in Georgia. His works based on poetical structural platform and interdisciplinary praxis. He is cofoundator of the Contemporary Art Centre in Tbilisi 1994, Visual Laboratory and art magazine Signal in 1997. 1998 - 2006 he was working as a curator in Exchange Cultural programs between BEAX Geneva and Akademie of Art and CCA in Tbilisi. From 2000 he works and lives in Geneva Since 1990 Koka Ramishvili participated in important solo and group exhibitions in Berlin and in Glasgow, at Arnolfini in Bristol and the 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, the Cobra Museum in Amsterdam and Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt. Koka Ramishvili represented Georgia at the Venice Biennale in 2009. His works has also been on exhibit at the Hausler Contemporary gallery in Munich and Zurich, the Wallspace Gallery in New York, and in Geneva at attitudes, Edward Mitterrand gallery and Laurence Bernard gallery in Geneva. …"My interest in photography is to connect different disciplines (as a painting, sculpture and video) in 2 dimensional photographical image. In Still Lives, Light Machines and Dark Energy series I create 3 dimensional sculpture which is moving, which gives for photo-image ambience of the painting and contradiction point for idea of Still Life. In the end I have 2 dimensional photographical image with many informational layers." - Koka Ramishvili. 2018, Geneva
Gallery
Black Sea –4 channel video and audio installation. 2009. 53 th Venice Biennale, Courtesy FMAC, Fond Municipal of Contemporary Art, Geneva. Photo © Gio Sumbadze
Black Sea –4 channel video and audio installation. 2009. 53 th Venice Biennale, Courtesy FMAC, Fond Municipal of Contemporary Art, Geneva. Photo © Gio Sumbadze
Coffee –colour video and audio, 01’08 min. 2009. Courtesy M KHA (Museum of Contemporary Art Belgium).
