Koka Ramishvili was born in 1956 in Tbilisi, Georgia, and has been living and working in Geneva for over twenty years. His work has been shown in numerous cultural institutions such as the Tate Modern in London, the MAMCO in Geneva, the Goethe Institute in Berlin, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the M KHA Contemporary in Antwerp, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy and the Cobra Museum in Amsterdam. He has also participated in the International Documentary and Animation Film Festival in Leipzig, and the Cairo Biennial. Koka Ramishvili represented Georgia at the Venice Biennale in 2009.

In his multimedia-based work which includes video, painting, drawing, photography, objects, and installation, the Geneva based artist Koka Ramishvili consistently pursues those issues which he has been concerned with ever since the beginnings of his career: What is it that makes a picture a picture? How do different artistic genres relate in this matter? And how can the borderlines between categories in general be eliminated? Especially his works from the 1990s often take a political actuality as a starting point.