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mahalia taje giotto

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Mahalia taje Giotto (1992, they/them) is a visual artist based in Lausanne (Switzerland).

AWARDS & PUBLICATION

2024

Photography Prize - Swiss Design Awards

Individual exhibition recipient - PhMuseum Days


2023

existential boner, book published by SPBH/ECAL

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & more

2026

Gen Z : shaping a new gaze - collective exhibition at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt - Frankfurt (Germany) 

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)

mentoring, lectures & more

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 


EDUCATION

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)


Link to press articles & features

contact

feel free to contact me for studio visits, prints, collabs or any info you might need :)

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