Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Madeleine Ruggi is an artist working in London, UK. Madeleine 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 been awarded the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors and has received grants from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and The Eaton Fund. Madeleine has participated in residencies with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York; Camden Arts Centre, London; Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden; and POP Adriatico, Trieste. Her work has been featured in publications including Frieze, Metropolis M, POP Adriatico and The Guardian.
SOLO + DUO EXHIBITIONS
DISTRESS PURCHASE, Minor Attractions art fair with Palmer Gallery, London, 2025 [solo]
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
TERRAFORMING FUTURES, The Art House, Wakefield, 25 March-6 May 2026
TERRAFORMING FUTURES, TM Lighting, London, January-March 2026
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
BENSON SEDGWICK METAL WORKSHOP RESIDENCY, London, February-June 2026
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION ARCHIVE RESIDENCY, New York, 2025
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