Born in Tbilisi, Koka Ramishvili graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1980). He worked in the studio of professor Wolfgang Flatz in Munich (1991–1994), was coordinator at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tbilisi, editor of the contemporary culture magazine Signal (1997–1999), and coordinator of artistic projects for the Swiss‑Georgian Association for Cultural Exchange (1999–2007). He also taught at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (2007–2008). Ramishvili represented Georgia at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Selected exhibitions: Drawing Lesson (Museum of Contemporary Art, Geneva, 2003), The Collection as a Character (M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, 2013), and Light Machines (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2021). In 1997, Ramishvili received the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Award.
