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