Exhibitions & publications

2012
1st Prize at the Biennale Internationale de Céramique Contemporaine, Andenne, Belgium

2006
2nd Prize, International Small Teapot Competition, Saddleback Gallery, Mission Viejo, California, USA

2005
1st Prize, International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics, El Vendrell, Spain

2004
Jury Award at the 5th Mashiko International Ceramics Contest, Japan

2003
1st Prize at the International Biennial of Ceramic Tiles, Buenos Aires
Honorable Mention at the 2nd World International Biennale, South Korea
Mention at the 6th International Ceramics Biennial, Manises, Spain

2001
Bronze Medal, Prize at the 1st World International Ceramics Biennal, Ichon Ceramic Museum, Seoul, Korea

2000
Jury Prize at the 6th Golden International Competition, Taipei, Taiwan

1999
Mention at the 4th ACS Biennial “Le Plat”, Solothurn, Switzerland
Prize at the 2nd Triennale de Céramique Elit-Tile, Santo Domingo

1998
Acquisition” prize at the Sydney Myer International Ceramics Award, Shepparton, Australia

1997
Zadar Prize at the 5th Triennale Internationale de Céramique de petit Format, Zagreb, Croatia

1996
Mention at the 1st International Triennial of Ceramics, Belgrade, Serbia

1989
1st Prize at the 15th Biennale de Céramique Suisse, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

1984
Mention at the 9th Biennale Internationale de Céramique, Vallauris, France

1981
Prix Bourse Lissignol from the City of Geneva, Switzerland

2023
CH-Gallery, Treytorrens, Suisse

2017-2018
Ariana Museum, Geneva

2017
View Space Gallery, Jingdezehen, China

2014
Verve Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Galerie à Rebours, Favardin & Mistre, Paris
Galerie Puls, Brussels, Belgium

2011
Galerie Lionel Latham, Geneva, Switzerland

2005
Lionel Latham Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2003
Galerie Das Ding ,Lucerne, Switzerland

1998
Galerie 5, Carouge, Switzerland

1995
Arte & Fuego Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela

1993
Marianne Brand Gallery, Carouge, Switzerland
Lanka Ceramics Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka

1987
Lionel Latham Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

1986
Utopia Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland

1985
Galerie CGA, Geneva, Switzerland

2024
«Liberté conditionnelle», Musée Ariana, Genève
« Merveilles », exposition pour les 200 ans du Musée de céramique de Sèvres, Paris, France

2023
 «Dialogue entre une pieuvre et un presse-agrumes», Mudac, musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués, Plateforme 10, Lausanne

2022
Homo Faber. Crafting a more human future – Porcelain virtuosity,
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice,Italy
Melting Pot, Swissceramics, Château de Nyon,CH
How to turn lead into gold, Centre d’Art Contemporain Yverdon, CH

2018
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, Kunstforum Gallery, Solothurn, Switzerland

2017
The Second International Ceramics Exhibition Qingdao Sculpture Art Museum, Qingdao, China

2016
East and West Invitational Ceramic Exhibition, Heritage and Diversity, Hanyang University Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2013
Galerie KisstheDesign, Lausanne, Switzerland

2012
12th International Competition of Contemporary Ceramics, CERCO, Spain AIC Exhibition, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, USA Black is not Black, Galerie Picci, Lausanne, Switzerland

2011
Helvètes Vulcains, Musée du Design & Art Contemporain, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland

2010
AIC exhibition Musée National de Sèvres, Paris,

2009
50 ans de l’ACS : Céramique de Grand Format, Halles de la Fonderie, Geneva, Switzerland Galerie de l’Hôtel de Ville, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland Down to Earth, Culturcentrum Gallery, Strombeck, Belgium Gold Porcelain, Musée Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland

2008
Biennale de Vallauris, France, Switzerland invited

2007
1st Jungzhen International Ceramic Exhibition, Wison Museum, Shanghai, China

2006
Triennale de Céramique de Petit Format, Elit-Tile, Santo Domingo 2nd International Small Teapot Exhibition, Saddleback College Gallery, Viejo, California EAO Gallery, Lausanne

2005
Triennale de Céramique de Petit Format, Elit-Tile, Santo Domingo 2nd International Small Teapot Exhibition, Galerie Saddleback College, Viejo, California Galerie EAO, Lausanne

2004
1st International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics, Taipei, Taiwan Galerie HWK, Munich, Germany Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramics Competition, Australia 7th International Biennial of Ceramics, Cairo, Egypt Galerie St. Joseph, Leeu

2003
Kunsthuis Ingrith Desmet, Heule, Belgium 2nd World Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics, Ichon, South Korea 1st International Biennial of Ceramic Tiles, Buenos Aires, Argentina 6th International Biennial of Ceramics, Manises, Vale

2002
AIC Exhibition, Athens, Greece 3rd Elit-Tile Triennial, Santo Domingo

2000
Orton Box Show Competition, Kansas City, USA Sydney Myer Fund International Ceramic Competition, Australia 6th International Ceramic Competition, Taipei County Yingko Ceramics Museum, Taiwan AIC Exhibition, Keramion Museum, Frechen, Germany

1998
International Ceramic Competition, Sydney Myer Fund Gallery, Shepparton, Australia Intercambio 3, Jacobo Borges Museum, Caracas, Venezuela

1996
International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics, Total Museum of Contemporary Arts, Seoul, South Korea AIC Exhibition, Saga Prefecture Museum, Saga, Japan Céramique Européenne 96, Keramion Museum, Frechen, Germany

1995
International Ceramics Competition “Calligraphy”, Musée de Carouge, Switzerland International Miniprints Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain

1993
7th Biennale de Céramique Contemporaine, Châteauroux, France 1st International Ceramics Competition, Sarreguemines, France

1992
3rd Triennale Internationale de Porcelaine, Nyon, Switzerland Configura I, Plastic Arts Show, Erfurt, Germany Ceramic Design Exhibition, Valencia, Spain 1st Triennale Internationale de Céramique, Cairo, Egypt

1991
16th Swiss Ceramics Biennial, Winterthur, Switzerland

1990
Galerie Böwig, Hanover, Germany Galerie Gloria, Nicosia, Cyprus Céramistes Contemporains, Château d’Aubonne, Switzerland

1989
Céramique Européenne, Auxerre, France Galerie I.N.O.V. Autour de la table”, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland Max Laeuger-Preis exhibition, Musée am Burgdorf, Lörrach, Germany

1988
“Créations Porcelaines”, Musée Adrien-Dubouchet, Limoges, France

1987
Concours International de Céramique Décorée, Musée de Carouge, Switzerland Porcelaines, Pavillon de l’Orangerie, Limoges, France

1986
1st Triennale Internationale de Porcelaine, Nyon, Switzerland 44th International Ceramics Competition, Faenza, Italy

1985
13th Swiss Ceramics Biennial, Villa Malpensata, Lugano, Switzerland

1984
9th Biennale Internationale de Céramique, Vallauris, France 1st Triennale Mondiale de Céramique de Petit Format, Zagreb, Croatia Die Kaffeekanne, Museum Wilhem Hack, Ludswighafen/Rhein, Germany

Various private collections in Switzerland and abroad Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres, Paris, France

Everson Museum, Syracuse/New York, USA

Collection d’Art de la Ville de Berne, Switzerland Collection Pro Helvetia Foundation, Switzerland

Saga Prefectural Museum, Japan Keramion Museum, Frechen, Germany Sydney Myer Foundation, Australia

Taipei County Yingko Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Ichon Ceramic Museum, South Korea

Musée Benaki, Athens, Greece Musée Ariana, Geneve, Switzerland

MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland

Fonds d’Art Visuel, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

Ponce Museum, Puerto Rico

2025
Portait de membre, publication du bulletin de L’AIC,  mars 2025
Homofaber guide , Michelangelo Fondation 

2022
Formes critiques, textes de Myriam Poiatti & Suzanne Rivier, Historiennes de l’Art,
ISBN 978-2-940587-25-4  ©2022 l’Esprit de la Lettre Editions, Genève 

2017
Statuts/Statues, 2016-2017, texte par Suzanne Rivier,
Cette monographie est composée de deux parties distinctes. La première partie accompagne l’exposition de François Ruegg Statuts | Statues qui se tient au Musée Ariana, à Genève, Suisse, du 14 septembre 2017 au 4 mars 2018. Les œuvres présentées ont été réalisées en Chine, à Jingdezhen, entre mars 2016 et juin 2017. La seconde partie est une évocation, en chronologie inversée, du parcours de l’artiste entre 1985 et 2015.
l’Esprit de la Lettre, Genève © 2017 ISBN 978-2-940587-06-3
La porcelaine entre être et paraître, journal Le Temps, par Laurence Chauvy, Genève
A jour, texte interview de Michèle Baeriswyl-Descloux

2013
Contre nature morte, digital version, edition l’esprit de la lettre diffusion librairie immateriel

2011
Contre nature morte, text by Myriam Poiatti,
Convergence Editions, ISBN 978-2-8399-0919-8

Contre nature morte, convergence editions, ISBN 978-2-8399-0919-8

2008
Confrontional Ceramics book by Judidh Schartz, USA 2008, ISBN 978-0-713655-6

2006
François Ruegg, the fragility of the absolute, by Ricard Planas Camps Culture Manager and art critic, El Vendrell, Spain

2005
“Tensions & Mutations” by Wendy Dubin, Convergence Edition, Geneva, Switzerland ISBN 2-8399-0074-2

World-famous Ceramic Artist’s Studios, by B. Ming, Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, China, ISBN 7-5310-2350-4/J-1965

2004
Porcelain and Bone China, by Sasha Wardell, Crowood Press, LondonISBN 1 816126-693-6 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form, Larksbooks Editor, USA, ISBN 1-57990-547-1

2003
“François Ruegg, une approche esthétique des sentiments”, by Frédéric Bodet, Température 2003, magazine of the Association Céramique Suisse

500 Bowls, Contemporay Explorations of a Timeless Design, Larksbooks Editor, USA, ISBN 1-57990-362-2 Contemporay Studio Porcelain, by Peter Lane, A&C Black Editor,London, ISBN 0-7136-6637-4

2002
“François Ruegg”, by Carmen Gonzalez-Barras,
Revista Internacional Ceramica, n° 82, Madrid, Spain

500 Teapots, Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design, Larksbooks Editor, USA, ISBN 1-57990-341-X

1994
“Art and shadow, a duality revisited”, by Suzanne Rivier,

in Art & Perception Magazine, n° 16, Australia

1993
Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, n° 73, France

1992
Portrait d’artiste, television program, TSR, Switzerland

Slipcasting, by Sasha Wardell, Ceramics Handbooks, A&C Black Editor, London, ISBN 0-7136-4067-7500

1985
Article by S. Dell’Ava in Revue de la Céramique et du Verre, n° 21, France

Revue des Métiers d’Art, n° 99, France

2021
workshop in Terra W Studio, Sao Paulo
2014

workshop in Newton Studio, Sao Paolo, Brazil
workshop in Atelie Luiza Christ, Florianopolis, Brazil
conference in IUNA, Buenos Aires 

2013
workshop in IVA, VAllauris, France
workshop in Atelie d’Arte- Luiza Christ, Florianopolis, Brazil
Masterclass at Institut d’ Art de Vallauris, France
Workshop at L’Institut Superieur des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, France

1998 – 2013
Profesor at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Geneva, Switzerland, ceramics department

1994 – 1998
Profesor  at the Instituto Universitario Superior de Artes Plasticas A . Reveron, Caracas, Venezuela