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Madeleine Ruggi (b.1991) is an artist working in London, UK. Ruggi’s artistic practise seeks to grasp her own body’s position among infrastructures of trade and processing that are often concealed to consumers of the global West. She uses ordinary, small-scale materials as departure points to confront the cycle of trade that she too is inextricably involved in. Madeleine has a BA from Central Saint Martins, London and an MA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Her work has been presented at Tate Modern, London; Camden Arts Centre, London; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable; European Cultural Centre, Venice; Guest Projects, London and Bussey Building, London, amongst others.

email: madeleineruggi(at)gmail.com

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EXHIBITIONS


The gateway as a point of encounter[duo show with María José Crespo], PuntWG, Amsterdam, 25th July - 21st August, 2023


This Is Reality and It Was But One Chat Away
Ubik, Rotterdam, July 2022


Afterwardness
commission, Whitstable Biennale, June 2022


I Must Be Living Twice curated by Shimmer, Palazzo Mora, European Cultural Centre, Venice, April- November, 2022


A High Hang
Eccleston Project Space, London, 2019


MINIMUM IS MAXIMUM IN DRAG
inNeoss, London, 2019


Nourishment 
Guest Projects, London, 2019


Forced Collaboration
[online], Forced Collaboration, 2018


12ø Collective,
[online], 12ø, 2018

LIMINAL 
[solo show], inNeoss, London, 2017


Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival [collaborative sound performance with Georgia Gendall], Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2014


PSEUDO-CREM 
The Vinyl Library, London, 2014



Print/3 
Arcane Gallery, London, 2014


Artists in Residence Camden Arts Centre, London, 2012


Resembling Ham in Taste Mori and Stein Gallery, London, 2012


COMM
Bussey Building Art Space, London, 2012




GRANTS


Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, 2023


The Eaton Fund, 2023







TALKS


The gateway as a point of encounter
[performance presentation by Madeleine Ruggi and María José Crespo], PuntWG, Amsterdam, 19th August 2023

Witnessing as a method of getting through gateways [performance presentation by Madeleine Ruggi and María José Crespo], Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam,  2022

Proxyerotics performance presentation by Madeleine Ruggi and María José Crespo, Royal College of Art, London, 2021



 



PRESS


Frieze 13 June 2022, The Elemental Pull of Whitstable Biennale, by Chris Sharratt, read here


MetropolisM25 July 2022, Graduation Shows - Piet Zwart Institute, by Jorne Vriens, read here



EDUCATION


2020 - 2022 MA Fine ArtPiet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam


2010 - 2014 BA (Honours) Fine ArtCentral Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London


2012 - 2013 Diploma in Professional Studies Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London


2009 - 2010 Foundation Fine Art Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins, London