RESUME

Madeleine Ruggi is an artist working in London, UK. She has a BA from Central Saint Martins, London and an MFA 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, amongst others. She has received the Gilbert Bayes Award by the Royal Society of Sculptors, 2024-25, and funding support from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and The Eaton Fund. Madeleine has participated in residencies with Camden Arts Centre, London; Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden; POP Adriatico, Trieste; and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York (forthcoming). Her work has been featured in publications including Frieze, Metropolis M, POP Adriatico and The Guardian.

SOLO + DUO EXHIBITIONS

LA LINGUA ME DEFENDI, Varco Momumentale VII, Porto Vecchio, Trieste, 2024 [solo]

THE GATEWAY AS A POINT OF ENCOUNTER, PuntWG, Amsterdam, 2023 [duo with María José Crespo]

TRANSMISSION—CARRIER, commission for Whitstable Biennale’s Afterwardness, June 2022 [solo]

MINIMUM IS MAXIMUM IN DRAG, inNeoss, London, 2019 [solo]

LIMINAL, inNeoss, London, 2017 [solo]

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

SOFT LANDING, Palmer Gallery, London, July 2025

THIS IS REALITY AND IT WAS BUT ONE CHAT AWAY, Ubik, Rotterdam, 2022

I MUST BE LIVING TWICE, group show, curated by Shimmer, Palazzo Mora, European Cultural Centre, Venice, 2022

A HIGH HANG, group show, Eccleston Project Space, London, 2019

NOURISHMENT, group show, Guest Projects, London, 2019

FORCED COLLABORATION, online, Forced Collaboration, 2018

UP HILL DOWN HALL: AN INDOOR CARNIVAL, collaborative sound performance with Georgia Gendall,

Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, 2014

PSEUDO-CREM, group show, The Vinyl Library, London, 2014

PRINT/3, group show, Arcane Gallery, London, 2014

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, group show, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2012

RESEMBLING HAM IN TASTE, group show, Mori and Stein Gallery, London, 2012

COMM, group show, Bussey Building Art Space, London, 2012

TALKS

DOUBLE EDGED ZONES: WATERWAYS, BORDERSCAPES AND CORPOREAL LIMITS, performance presentation with María José Crespo, Institute for Post Natural Studios and HEAD, Geneva, 2024

THE GATEWAY AS A POINT OF ENCOUNTER, performance presentation with María José Crespo, PuntWG, Amsterdam, 2023

WITNESSING AS A METHOD OF GETTING THROUGH GATEWAYS, performance presentation with María José Crespo, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, 2022

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

SELECTED PRESS + PUBLICATIONS

POP ADRIATICO – PORTO OSSERVATORIO PARTECIPATO, November 2024, La Lingua Me Defendi, a sound installation for the Porto Vecchio di Trieste, by Madeleine Ruggi [print only, read here]

METROPOLIS M, Graduation Shows 2022 – Piet Zwart Institute, 25 July 2022, by Jorne Vriens

FRIEZE, The Elemental Pull of Whitstable Biennale, 13 June 2022, by Chris Sharratt

THE GUARDIAN, Central Saint Martins Degree Show, 2024, 21 May 2014

GRANTS + AWARDS + RESIDENCIES

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION ARCHIVE RESIDENCY, New York, September-October 2025 (forthcoming)

GILBERT BAYES AWARD, ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS, London, 2024-25

SCOTTISH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP RESIDENCY, Lumsden, 2024

POP ADRIATICO RESIDENCY, Trieste, 2024

AMSTERDAMS FONDS VOOR DE KUNST, 2023

THE EATON FUND, 2023

CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE RESIDENCY, with Central Saint Martins, London, 2012

EDUCATION

2020 - 2022 MA FINE ART,  Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam

2010 - 2014 BA FINE ART, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London

2012 - 2013 DIPLOMA IN PROFESSIONAL STUDIES, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London

2009 - 2010 FINE ART FOUNDATION, Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins, London