Mahalia taje Giotto (1992, they/them) is a visual artist based in Lausanne (Switzerland).
2024
Swiss Design Awards
PhMuseum Days
2023
existential boner, book published by SPBH/ECAL
2025
Gen Z : shaping a new gaze - Musée de l'Elysée - Lausanne (Switzerland)
2024
PhMuseum Days 2024 - CLOSER - laureat, Bologna (Italy)
Swiss Design Awards 2024 - laureat, Basel (Switzerland)
Doctoral seminar SACRe - presentation of the project existential boner, ECAL, Renens (Switzerland)
unapologetically sorry - presentation of the book existential boner, 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 - showing of existential boner (diploma project) - Vevey (Switzerland)
TALENT DAY - Diploma exhibition with existential boner - ECAL - Renens (Switzerland)
UNTUCKED - collective exhibition, Renens, (Switzerland)
2021
"ECAL Grand Tour" at Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana in Venice (Italy), workshop with Simone C. Niquille
EXQUISITE CORPSE - collective exhibition - Biennale dell’immagine - Chiasso (Switzerland)
Lust*Art 2021 - collective exhibition, showing of the photobook everybody lies, everybody dies - Basel (Switzerland)
TedX Fribourg - talk on alternativ porn > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaBeA-fO6es
everybody lies, everybody dies - collective exhibition - Baden (Switzerland)
SURVIVAL - (short film, 2mn40), selected for La Fête du Slip 2021, category « Swiss Shorts »
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), selected for 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)
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)
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