Mahalia taje Giotto (1992, they/them) is a visual artist based in Lausanne (Switzerland).
2024
Photography Prize - Swiss Design Awards
Individual exhibition recipient - PhMuseum Days
2023
existential boner, book published by SPBH/ECAL
2026
Fotofestival Lenzburg — collective exhibition, Lenzburg (Switzerland)
Artistic residency in Genoa (Italy) — march to june 2026, open call from the city of Lausanne
Above, Below, Between — collective exhibition curated by Oriane Emery and Jean-Rodolphe Petter at UA26, Vienna (Austria)
2025
Gen Z : shaping a new gaze - collective exhibition at Musée de l'Elysée - Lausanne (Switzerland)
2024
CLOSER - photo festival of PhMuseum Days 2024 - individual exhibition recipient, Bologna (Italy)
Swiss Design Awards 2024 - laureat of the Photography prize, Basel (Switzerland)
unapologetically sorry - talk, REFERENCE POINT, London (England)
2023
prohelvetia x Spectrum - book presentation with existential boner for Paris Photo 2023, Galerie C, Paris (France)
existential boner - solo exhibition, SPBH Space, Milan (Italy)
Ultra liquida - collective exhibition with La Love Machine x +41, La Saceba, Morbio Inferiore (Switzerland)
Plat(t)form 2023 - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
All my loved ones like to fight - collective exhibition, CALM, Lausanne (Switzerland)
FATart - women* FLINTA in arts, Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
existential boner - book launch, Arles (France)
Swiss Design Awards 2023 - finalist, Basel (Switzerland)
CØLLECTIVE (R)EVOLUTION - collective exhibition with Bøwie Creators - Geneva (Switzerland)
AMORCE - collective exhibition with 1815 - Jetée de la compagnie, Lausanne (Switzerland)
ECAL x ON Running - collective exhibition - ELAC - Renens (Switzerland)
photoSCHWEIZ 2023 - wild card - Zürich (Switzerland)
2022
ECAL x ON Running - collective exhibition - ON Running HQ - Zürich (Switzerland)
Images Vevey - Together, La vie ensemble - photo biennale - Vevey (Switzerland)
TALENT DAY - diploma exhibition with existential boner - ECAL - Renens (Switzerland)
UNTUCKED - collective exhibition, Renens, (Switzerland)
2021
EXQUISITE CORPSE - collective exhibition - Biennale dell’immagine - Chiasso (Switzerland)
Lust*Art 2021 - collective exhibition, showing of the photobook everybody lies, everybody dies - Basel (Switzerland)
everybody lies, everybody dies - collective exhibition - Baden (Switzerland)
SURVIVAL - (short film, 2mn40) La Fête du Slip 2021, category « Swiss Shorts », Lausanne (Switzerland)
2020
WAXNSCHLASS - screening at Hacker Porn Film Festival, Rome (Italy)
WAXNSCHLASS - screening at Schamlos! Bern (Switzerland)
Series of podcasts with Oil Productions on radio-40, Lausanne (Switzerland)
UNSHARED PLEASURE - (short film, 9mn) La Fête du Slip 2020, category « Swiss Shorts », Lausanne (Switzerland)
2019
UNSHARED PLEASURE - screening at Fesse-tival, Geneva (Switzerland)
UNSHARED PLEASURE - screening at Oblò, Lausanne (Switzerland)
2018
"Ephémère" - collective exhibition, Espace Démart, Lausanne (Switzerland)
2026
Centre de la photographie Genève - mentor for the 2026 mentorship programme (Switzerland)
2025
Lausanne Underground Film and music Festival - jury for the features film programme, Lausanne (Switzerland)
FUTURES Photography - selected artist by Centre de la photographie Genève (Switzerland)
Centre de la photographie Genève - mentor for the 2025 mentorship programme (Switzerland)
2024
CEPV - lecture at STRATES, Lausanne (Switzerland)
SACRe - seminar, ECAL, Renens (Switzerland)
2021
ECAL Grand Tour at Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana in Venice (Italy), workshop with Simone C. Niquille
TedX Fribourg - talk on alternativ porn > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaBeA-fO6es
2020-2022 Master in Photography
ECAL, Lausanne (Switzerland)
2017-2019 Federal VET Diploma in Photography
CEPV, Vevey (Switzerland)
2013-2017 Bachelor in International Relations
Global Studies Institute, International History & Law
University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland)
feel free to contact me for studio visits, prints, collabs or any info you might need :)
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