Ramaya Tegegne

Born 1985, Geneva, Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 (forthcoming) Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève (forthcoming) Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zürich (forthcoming) Park View, Los Angeles @ Bureau des réalités, Brussels

2017 Szenen über Services und Kapitalien, Upstate, Zürich, duo show with Stephan Dillemuth Deep Listening, First Continent, Baltimore

2015 Somebody in New York Loves Me, Fri Art, , Switzerland that someone else has underlined?, Twenty Years, Berlin 2014

2014 Respektive, Marbriers 4, Geneva, Switzerland Refresh, Curtat Tunnel, , Switzerland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 Bourses, Centre d’art contemporain, Genève 36 rue de la République, Marseille, a project by Marie Angelletti Sie sagen, wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer, Kunsthalle /Kunsthaus Glarus encore mode, Lodos, Mexico City What “Everybody Knows”, Svetlana, New York Speak, Lokal, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich

2016 Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland Counter, Ύλη[matter]HYLE, Athens Against the Romance of Community, Swiss Institute, New York Warmest, Forde, Geneva Kampus der Kröten, Oslo 10, Basel Mirrors, Duve, Berlin Upstate , Paramount Ranch, Los Angeles Unruly Relations, Kunsthaus Glarus

2015 Artists’ Voices, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland Tunguska, Galerie Maria Berheim, Zurich, Switzerland M/L Artspace present: Some Gallerists, The Duck, Berlin, Germany Sviluppo-Parallelo, Kunsthalle Luzern Stipendium Vordemberge-Gildewart, CentrePasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland Annexes – Books, Editions & Vitrines and a New Persentation of

“BerlinLocal”, curated by Catherine Chevalier & Benjamin Hirte, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria Kunsthalle Roveredo, a project by Elise Lammer, Roveredo, Switzerland (CH) Galerie Emanuel Layr, LISTE, Basel, Switzerland Swiss Design Awards, Basel G.I.F.T., Der TANK, Basel, Switzerland Maladie d’Amour, a project by Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Grenoble, France

2014 Collection#08, edition for Swiss newspaper Le Temps, Geneva, Switzerland Les Urbaines 2014, Lausanne, invited by M J Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland New Heads Art Awards, Live In Your Head, Geneva, Switzerland Chora – an event around writing, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland Beckbooks, I Never Read, Basel, Switzerland

2013 Holes in the Walls, Early Works 1948-2013, Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland Yes, but would you want your sister to play one?, The Banff Center, Banff, Canada Hotel Abisso, Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

2012 25th Biennale of graphic design 2012, Brno, Czech Republic Blank Book Makers, Fonderie Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland L’histoire de l’art à l’ère..., Musée des Moulages, Lyon, France

2011 Books on Books, Swiss Institute, New York, USA Bourses, Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Panorama, Design Graphique en Suisse Romande, Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Les plus beaux livres suisses 2010, Helmhaus Zürich, Forde Genève, Centre culturel suisse Paris, Helvetic Centre Londres,... In focus/Switzerland, Amsterdam Art Book Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt 2011, Stiftung Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany Bourses Déliées, Halle Nord, Geneva, Switzerland

2010 Endexamen Tentoonstelling, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands DNK – The Archive, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

PERFORMANCES

2017 Swiss Performance Art Awards, Gesnerallee, Zurich

Sie sagen, wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer, Kunsthalle Bern Deep Listening, First Continent, Baltimore Winter School’s Sunday, Plattform 17, Kunsthaus Glarus

2016 Against the Romance of Community, Swiss Institute, New York Tbilisi 7, Kadist Kunsthalle Zürich Production Award, Shindisi, Georgia LUFF, Kill The Silence, Hong Kong Unruly Relations, Kunsthaus Glarus Open Studios, Gasworks, London Sviluppo-Parallelo, Kunsthalle Luzern

2015 ‘Version #17: Annie Sprinkle’, Model Project, Vancouver, Canada ‘Version #6: Mike Kelley’, Stipendium Vordemberge-Gildewart, CentrePasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland ‘Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz’ with Léo Wadimoff, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria ‘Version #14: Gertrude Stein’, Episode 2: Corridors, Oslo 10, Basel, Switzerland ‘Version #16: Nina Simone’, Screamscape, Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland ‘Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz’ with Léo Wadimoff, that someone else has underlined?, Twenty Years, Berlin, Germany ‘Version #3: Alvin Lucier’, Alpina Huus. House of Deep Transformation in 11 Acts, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany

2014 ‘Version #15: Karen Finley’, Les Urbaines 2014, Démart, Lausanne, Switzerland ‘Version #6: Mike Kelley’, New Heads Art Awards, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland ‘Version #14: Gertrude Stein’, ‘Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz’, Chora – an event around writing, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland ‘Version #13: Daniel Baumann’, Respektive, Marbriers 4, Geneva, Switzerland ‘Version #12: Frances Stark’, Refresh, Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland

2013 ‘Version #11: Dick Higgins’, Format de Texte Enrichi, Atelier de Julie C. Fortier, Rennes, France ‘Version #10: Robert Smithson’, La Dérive, Offprint Paris, France ‘Version #5: Matt Mullican’, ‘Version#6: Mike Kelley’, Holes in the Walls, Early Works 1948-2013, Fri Art, Fribourg, France ‘Version #7: Gordon Matta-Clark’, ‘Version#9: Kristin Lucas / VVork’, Food, Sunview Luncheonette, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, USA ‘Version #8: Tino Sehgal’, Swiss Focus, New York Art Book Fair, MOMA PS1,

New York, USA ‘Version #4: Dan Graham’, Yes, but would you want your sister to play one?, The Banff Center, Banff, Canada ‘Version #3: Alvin Lucier’, Kaleidoscope Venice Bar, Venice Biennale 2013, Venice, Italy ‘Version #1: Trisha Brown’, ‘Version#2: Stuart Sherman’ & ‘Version#3: Alvin Lucier’, Hotel Abisso, Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

2012 An exhibition to hear read, a project by Matthieu Copeland, ICA, Philadelphia, USA

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2017 LES URBAINES, Lausanne, co-curator for Visual Arts, with Maud Constantin & Tatiana Rihs, www.urbaines.ch

2014-2016 FORDE, co-director with Maud Constantin & Tatiana Rihs, Geneva, Switzerland http://www.forde.ch 2013- ORAIBI BOOKS, a curatorial project and a bookshop together with BECKBOOKS, Geneva, Switzerland http://www.oraibibeckbooks.ch

AWARDS, GRANTS

2017 Contemporary Art Curator Grant, City of Geneva (FMAC), with Maud Constantin & Tatiana Rihs Publication Intensive, 2-week program, Triple Canopy, New York Residency in New York, 6 months, State of Geneva (DIP–OCCS) Nominated for Mobilière Award, Geneva

2016 Residency in London, 3 months, Pro Helvetia/Gasworks, London Nominated for Swiss Art Awards, Basel (OFC)

2015 Kadist Production Award, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kadist Art Foundation, London Contemporary Art Curator Award for Forde Geneva, State of Geneva (FCAC)

Nominated for Swiss Design Awards, Basel (OFC) 2014 New Heads Art Awards, HEAD – Genève, BNP Paribas

2012 Studio at L’Usine 2013-2015, Fond d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève

2011 Bourse pour médiateur en art contemporain, Fond d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève Bourse Lissignol-Chevalier et Galland, Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt 2011, Silver Medal, Stiftung Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany Most beautiful Swiss books 2010, Office Fédéral de la Culture (OFC), Bern, Switzerland

2009 Bourse des anciens diplômés de la HEAD, Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

EDUCATION

2014 Haute école d’art et de design Genève (HEAD), MA fine arts 2010 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, BA graphic design 2008 Haute école d’art et de design Genève (HEAD), BA graphic design

RESIDENCIES

2016 Pro Helvetia Gasworks Residency, London, UK 2013 Always Lift Inking Rollers When Press Is Not In Operation, a project by Will Holder, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

TEACHING

17–18 Seminar with Tiphanie Blanc, Workmaster, HEAD – Geneva

2016 Private Affairs, Master Symposium, workshop & lecture, ZHdK, Zurich What we heard, workshop & lecture, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

2015 Journée d’études RE – Emprunt, remix et rééditing dans les arts actuels,

isdaT beaux-arts, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse Teaching assistant of Lili Reynaud-Deward for a workshop at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

2013-2014 Haute école d’art et de design Genève (HEAD), Geneva, Switzerland Assistant typography/artist’s book, Bachelor fine arts, typography/artist’s book

OTHER PROJECT

2017 WAGES FOR WAGES AGAINST, a campaign for the general payment of artists fees by institutions in Switzerland. www.wfwa.ch

ARTISTS’ BOOKS

2018 (forthcoming) artist’s book published by Centre d’édition contempoaine, Genève

2017 Wages For Wages Against, published by Kunsthalle Zürich

2016 Patron’s edition for Kunsthalle Zürich Contribution for Petunia Magazine, Nr. 7, Orlando Press, Marseille

2015 MENAGE A TROIS, published by Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland

2014 Bzzz, Bzzz, Bzzz, published by Marbriers 4, Geneva, Switzerland Make your own life: Artists In & Out of Cologne, self-published, Geneva, Switzerland

2011 Artforum summer 2011, self-published, Geneva, Switzerland

2010 TITLE, self-published, Geneva, Switzerland Mechanical Storytelling, published by Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, Netherlands