Upcoming:

– June 15-21: Liste Basel, Basel, (CH)
– June 15-21: Swiss Art Award, Basel, (CH)
– June 24: performance as part of the group exhibition Communautés en résonance, Geneva, CH
– November Gessnerallee, Zürich, (CH)

PRICE (Mathias Ringgenberg, b. 1986 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Zurich-based artist working across installation, performance, sound, scent, and scenography. Rooted in theatre and performance, his current practice increasingly stages atmosphere itself: voice, smell, objects, and spatial fragments become carriers of affect and dramaturgy. Often using residual materials from theatrical production, his works move between exhibition, stage, and club, exploring how identity, desire, and spectatorship are produced through surfaces, moods, and acts of display.

Recent exhibitions and live performances include Capitain Petzel, Berlin, DE (2025); Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, CH (2025); OTO Sound Museum, Zurich, CH (2025); Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, CH (2025); Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE (2025); Blue Velvet, Madrid, ES (2025); ARCO, Madrid, ES (2025); Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, PT (2025); Le Trou, Geneva, CH (2025); New Theater Hollywood, Los Angeles, US (2024); Pageant, Brooklyn, US (2024); Kunsthaus Biel/Bienne, Biel/Bienne, CH (2024); MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg, LU (2024, 2023); CC Strombeek, Brussels, BE (2024); Spazio Murat, Bari, IT (2024); CAPC, Bordeaux, FR (2023); Trauma Bar, Berlin, DE (2023); Casa do Povo, São Paulo, BR (2023); Basel Social Club, Basel, CH (2023); Istituto Svizzero, Rome / Milan / Palermo, IT (2022); OCT0, Marseille, FR (2022); Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich, CH (2022); Joyfully Waiting x Cherish, Geneva, CH (2022); Systema Plus, Marseille, FR (2022); Gessnerallee, Zurich, CH (2022); Fondation Arsenic, Lausanne, CH (2022); Echo Correspondence, Vienna, AT (2022); Norbergfestival, Norberg, SE (2022); KEM, Warsaw, PL (2021); Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection, Paris, FR (2021); Fonti Gallery, Naples, IT (2021); mumok and Burgtheater Kasino, Vienna, AT (2021); My Wild Flag MDT, Stockholm, SE (2021); NAVEL, Los Angeles, US (2019); Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro, BR (2019); Human Resources, Los Angeles, US (2018); and Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH (2018).

PRICE has launched several musical projects and released them through various music labels such as cazarnagora and Latency. He has taught workshops and given lectures at various institutions, including the Art Academy in Ghent, B, KEM Space in Warsaw, PL, Lateral Roma in Rome, IT, Gerrit Rietveld Academy and Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, NL, Institute Art Gender Nature in Basel and ZhdK Master Fine Arts in Zürich, CH, Rupert’s Summer School in Vilnius LT.

In addition to his artistic practice, PRICE took on the role of guest curator for the performance program at the renowned festival Les Urbaines in Switzerland from 2017 to 2021. Beside that, he is one of the six curators of the art space Lateral Roma, which he co-founded with Geraldine Tedder in Rome in the year 2020. Recently, PRICE and his long-standing working partner Niklaus Mettler have co-founded AirSolutions, an agency specializing in the development of scent in space.

For inquiries: booktheprice@gmail.com
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Listen: Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp
Past:
  • December 5,  “Bolero Bordello – Berlin Rhapsody” with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, PRICE and Merlin Modulaw, at Capitain Petzel, Berlin (DE)
  • November 30, OTO Sound Museum presents E.N.C. curated by Marc Jauss, Kunstraum Walcheturm Zürich, (CH)
  • November 28, Opening Group Exhibition Werkschau 2025 Kanton Zürich, Kunst Museum Winterthur, (CH)
  • November 22, “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” at Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, (CH)
  • September 19, Odds and Ends,  Solo Exhibition Blue Velvet, Zürich, CH
  • August 7 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” at Helmhaus Zürich, CH
  • June 9  “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” at Kunsthalle St.Gallen, CH
  • March 23–30: group exhibition by the Julia Stoschek Foundation at Schauspielhaus, foyer, Düsseldorf, DE
  • March 6 Opening Solo Exhibition with live performance at Blue Velvet, Madrid ES
  • March 5-9 ARCO, the International Contemporary Art Fair, with Gallery Blue Velvet, Madrid ES
  • March 1 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” with Renato Grieco at Galeria Municipal do Porto, PT
  • February 27 “A Repressed Repertoire (sequences)” with  Renato Grieco, Umlilo, Tamara Alegre at Le Trou, Geneva CH
  • February 22 NEW THEATER HOLLYWOOD REVIEW, Los Angeles USA
  • January 6-12 Residency La Becque with Renato Grieco, Alban Schelbert, Vevey CH
  • December 18 & 19 “A repressed Repertoire (sequences)” with Marcel Alcalá, Cecile Believe, Sophia Cleary at New Theater Hollywood, Los Angeles US
  • November 16 “A repressed Repertoire (sequences)” with Viva Soudan, Sem Lala, Marcel Alcalá, Niall Jones AT Pageant, Brooklyn US
  • November 4-10 Research residency with Joseph Schiano di Lombo, Modulaw, Heith, Renato Grieco at Gessnerallee Zurich CH”
  • September 27, “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” with Renato Grieco at Spazio Murat in Bari IT
  • September 21, “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” with Renato Grieco at CC Strombeek Brussels B
  • August 14, public lecture within Rupert’s Summer School in Vilnius Lithuania
  • August 12-13, Workshop “I am not your exotic flower” Exploring the Politics of Air and Scent at Rupert’s Summer School in Vilnius Lithuania
  • May 31, 2024 Group Exhibition «There I lost myself, I lost myself» with works by Mitchell Anderson, Louisa Gagliardi, Thomas Hirschhorn, PRICE and Sibylle Ruppert, Blue Velvet, Zurich CH
  • May 25, 2024 “A repressed Repertoire (sequences)” with Bonnie Banane, Cassie Augusta, Pauline Hogstrand at Art HUB Copenhagen DK
  • May 25, 2024 Solo Exhibition “Serenade” Copenhagen DK
  • May 19, 2024 Finissage performance with Renato Grieco “L’Air du Temps (air conditions)”, Biel/Bienne CH
  • May 16, 2024 Group Exhibition “INTERGENERATIONAL FORMS” with Carla Accardi, James Bantone, Becky Beasley, Pascale Birchler, Azize Ferizi, Sheila Hicks, Simone Holliger, Deborah-Joyce Holman, PRICE, Francesca Minini Milan IT
  • May 7, 2024 “A repressed Repertoire (sequences)” with Bonnie Banane, Alban Schelbert and Tiran Willemse, Cabaret Voltaire Zurich CH
  • March 26, 2024 PRICE & Tobias Koch, Gare du Nord Basel CH
  • February 29, 2024 “L’Air du Temps (air conditions)” solo exhibition Pasquart Biel/Bienne CH within the Manor Art-Prize
  • February 15-18, 2024 “L’Air du Temps (breathing my beloved in)” Arsenic Lausanne CH
  • February 8-11, 2024 “L’Air du Temps (breathing my beloved in)” Gessnerallee Zurich CH
  • January 7, 2024 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” MUDAM – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg LU
  • December 22, 2023 “A Familiar Hole” (sequences)” in Zaza Napoli IT
  • November 22, 2023 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” in collaboration with HEITH at Linecheck Festival Milan IT
  • November 16, 2023 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux FR
  • October 12, 2023 “The Interesting” within the group exhibition After Laughter Comes Tears at MUDAM Luxembourg
  • June 14, 2023 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” with special guest Bonnie Banane at Basel Social Club
  • June 12-18, 2023 “Untitled” at Swiss Art Award CH
  • May 25 – July 16, 2023 video installation “Repetition As Nostalgic Attachment On Violence (sequences)” at Oxyd in Winterthur CH
  • May 4, 2023 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” Trauma Bar und Kino Berlin DE
  • April 27, 2023 Lecture Performance at ETH Department of Architecture Zurich CH
  • April 21 – 24, 2023 Workshop (Nr.3) “Back to the Leave” with Michele Rizzo and Tobias Koch at Lateral Roma IT
  • March 30-April 02, 2023 video performance “Untitled” at Arsenic Lausanne CH
  • March 16, 2023 “Little Too Late” Album Release
  • December 17, 2022 “Actual Feelings” Listening session at Gandhara Roma IT
  • December 16, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” SOL INVICTUS Istituto Svizzero Roma IT
  • December 15, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” SOL INVICTUS Istituto Svizzero Milano IT
  • December 14, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” SOL INVICTUS Istituto Svizzero Palermo IT
  • December 7 – 9, 2022  Workshop (Nr.2) “Back to the Leave” with Michele Rizzo at Lateral Roma IT
  • November 26, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” KASKO Basel CH
  • November 25, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” Fondation Beyeler Basel CH
  • November 20, 2022 “Actual Feelings” OCT0 Marseille with Joyfully Waiting and Czarnagora
  • October 8, 2022 “The Interesting (sequences)” Gessnerallee Zürich CH
  • October 7, 2022 “Repetition As Nostalgic Attachment On Violence (sequences)” Gessnerallee Zürich CH
  • September 24 – October 29, 2022  “A Familiar Hole” Blue Velvet Projects Zürich CH
  • September 4, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” Joyfully Waiting Geneva CH
  • August 27, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” Systema Marseille FR
  • July 30, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” Echo Correspondence Vienna AT
  • July 7, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” Norbergfestival SE
  • June 19, 2022 “I Try My Tongue (sequences)” Ephemera Festival PL
  • June 15 – 19, 2022 directing of the score “Star Star Star” by Mica Levi with KEM School at Ephemera Festival PL
  • June 10 – 12, 2022 “Under His Breath” Perrrformat Zürich / Zürich Art Weekend CH
  • June 1 – 3, 2022 Workshop (Nr.1) “Back to the Leave” with Michele Rizzo at Lateral Roma IT
  • February – April, 2022 Residency PIVO and Pro Helvetia Sao Paulo BR
  • January 29, 2022 “True Sentiments (sequences)” Gessnerallee Zurich CH
  • January 20 – 23, 2022 “(sequences)” Arsenic Lausanne CH
  • December 9, 2021 “True Sentiments (sequences)” Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection Paris FR
  • November 22 – December 23, 2021 Residency at Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Swiss Arts Council Venice IT
  • November 13, 2021 La Casaforte S.B. Napoli IT
  • November 13, 2021 Galleria Fonti Napoli IT
  • November 6, 2021 All Stars Art Space Lausanne CH
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