Regula Tschumi PhD
Nesslerenweg 114
CH-3084 Wabern
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Regula Tschumi PhD
Nesslerenweg 114
CH-3084 Wabern
Unless otherwise noted, the reproduction rights to the photos and archive images published on this website are held by Regula Tschumi.
Minimum requirement for the
use of a photo is an image source attribution:
© Regula Tschumi
Regula Tschumi reserves the right
to prosecute the unauthorized
use of an image and, with the help
of ProLitteris, to pay damages for copyright infringement to demand.
The availability of an image can
only be guaranteed upon
purchase.
Regula Tschumi reserves the right not to release an image or images depending on the intended use.
Please send a specimen copy of
your publication to Regula
Tschumi. Thank you!
An exhibition featuring the works of the coffin artist Eric Kpakpo and photographs by Regula Tschumi at the Nubuke Foundation in Accra.
From 11 December 2025 until 28 February 2026.
Vernissage 11 December 2025.
East Legon Accra
Ghana
Regula Tschumi’s photographs of Ghanaian funerals and figurative coffins are on display at the Kunsthalle Talstrasse in Halle (Saale) until February 15, 2026.
The exhibition incorporates a wide variety of cultural and personal perspectives from different authors and artists, creating a space for reflection and dialogue. The selection of works by curators Matthias Rataiczyk and Maximilian Fleischer ranges from impressive coffins from Ghana to contemporary artistic positions from central Germany.
An extensive catalog has been published to accompany the exhibition, for which Regula Tschumi has also contributed a text.
2.10.2025 – 6.4.2026
Kunsthalle Talstrasse in Halle (Saale)
3Sat Kulturzeit: Echo des Unbekannten
Under the mantra ‘celebrate death as we celebrate life’, funerals in Ghana can be colourful affairs filled with dances and personalised coffins – as Regula Tschumi’s stunning photos attest – The Guardian 12.8.2025
A book review of The Guardian about “Buried in Style. Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana”, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2025.
A review of Regula Tschumi’s new photo book Buried in Stile. Artistic coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana (Kehrer 2025) by Salome Woerlen (text) with photos by Regula Tschumi.
Published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung NZZ Panorama, on August 6, 2025.
On July 1, Tom Page of CNN published the first review of Regula Tschumi’s new book Buried in Style. Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana, released at the end of June 2025 by Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany.
End of June 2025, Regula Tschumi’s new photo book Buried in Style was published by Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg.
You can now purchase the publication from Kehrer Verlag or from any major bookshop.
All texts and photos are by Regula Tschumi.
Design: Harald Pridger, Kehrer Verlag.
Hardcover, ca. 22 x 28 cm
240 pages / 270 color photographs
ISBN ISBN 978-3-96900-189-9
The new BUMP books zine titled Bowl Carriers is now on sale at Bump books.
It is the result of a prize that Regula Tschumi won for taking first place in the Series photo category at the 2024 Pisa Street Photography Festival (PSPI).
More information at the website of Bump books.
Ataa Oko’s work is currently on display in the temporary group exhibition Seeing the invisible. Art Brut and the beyond at the International Museum of the Reformation in Geneva.
On 13 May from 12.30-13.30 Regula Tschumi will give a guided tour in this exhibition focusing on Ataa Oko’s work. (the tour will be in french)
Cr de Saint-Pierre 10
1204 Geneva
Reservations at the MIR
The annual Women Street Photographers exhibition and festival will take place again in New York City at Artspace PS 109 from 10 to 13 April.
Regula Tschumi is for the sixth time part of this show. All photos of the 84 finalists will be exhibited during the festival in New York.
The exhibition is curated by Gulnara Samoilova, founder of WSP. The finalists were selected by Paris Chong, Director of the Leica Gallery in Los Angeles, and Sophie Muret, Galerie La belle étoile in Arles.
The Livorno Photo Meeting will take place from 15 to 17 November 2024 in Livorno, Italy.
Regula Tschumi is among the 24 finalists, whose photographs will be exhibited during the festival in Livorno.
The winners will be announced during the festival.
The 4th edition of «Les Rencontres de la Photographie de Marrakech» will take place in Morocco from 23 to 27 October 2024.
Regula Tschumi has been invited to take part in this international photography festival. Her photographs will be projected under the title «Exploring the intersections of Art, Culture and Ethnography in Ghana» on 24 October after 6pm at the Meydene Cultural Centre in Marrakech.
With this photo series Regula Tschumi won first prize at the International Street Photography Festival PSPI 2024 in Pisa, Italy.
In the group exhibition Magic Ghana, the renowned Parisian gallery Magnin-A presents street photography by Regula Tschumi together with sculptures by the Ghanaian coffin artist Eric Kpakpo and drawings by Ataa Oko (1919-2012), a pioneer of Ghanaian coffin art. Magnin-A is also showing a figurative coffin by the famous Kane Kwei (1924-1992), which was first exhibited in André Magnin’s legendary Magiciens de la terre show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1989.
From September 14th until October 26, 2024
118 Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
75011 Paris
For the fourth time, Regula Tschumi is taking part at the Treviso Photo Festival in Italy in September 2024 where she will be showing four of her latest work from Ghana.
The group exhibition will take place from 5 to 24 September, vernissage on 7.9.2024.
Samantha Johnston, curator of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver, presents in Views from the Street 18 photographers, including 9 local artists from Denver and 9 international members of the Women Street Photographers group of which Regula Tschumi is a part. She will be showing in this exhibition 3 of her recent photographs from Ghana.
According to the curator, each photograph in this show not only captures candid moments of everyday life but also expands the conventional boundaries of street photography, showcasing a heightened spatial awareness and innovative approaches.
From 16.8. until 5.10.2024 in the Colorado Photographic Arts Center CPAC in Denver, USA
The Cortona on the Move photo festival presents this year an exhibition titled Body of Evidence that deals with the transformation of the human body. In the section This is the end in the Fortezza Girifalco Regula Tschumi shows a selection of photographs from her series Figurative coffins and funerals of Ghana, 2004 – 2024.
The exhibition was curated by Irene Opezzo and Paolo Woods. About This is the End, we read on the Website COTM:
“Since the essence of photography is that it records what “has been”, it is indissolubly linked with death. It is therefore not surprising that since the invention of the medium, death has been one of its recurring themes. Yet in Western societies where photography first developed, the dead body has been gradually rendered invisible, almost a visual taboo. In This is the End we explore how death has been portrayed by all kinds of photography for the purpose of documentation or celebration, through works that are historical, vernacular, anthropological or artistic. Death has never been more alive than at the Body of Evidence edition of COTM 2024”.
The exhibition takes place in Cortona in Italy.
From 11.7. until 3.11.2024
With her photo titled A delicate balance Regula Tschumi won a BSPF Honorable Mention (or 3rd prize) in the Single Photos category of the Brussels Street Photo Festival 2024.
The exhibition with the photos of all finalists and winners lasts until 16 June 2024 and is open Thursdays to Sundays from 12 noon to 6 pm.
For more information see the BSPF website.
The Brussels Street Photography Festival 2024 takes place from 30 May to 2 June.
Regula Tschumi is one of the 65 BSPF individual finalists with two single photographs.
All the finalists’ photos, single and series, will be exhibited during the festival.
For the location of the festival and the programme, please visit the BSPF 2024 website.
The 6th edition of the international Lenzburg Foto Festival with the theme Synthesis will take place from 25.5. until 23.6.2024 in Lenzburg, Switzerland.
Regula Tschumi is among the 54 winners of the Open Call single image.
The exhibitions will take place in different locations in the town of Lenzburg.
For more information see the website of the festival.
Regula Tschumi is a finalist at the Italian Street Photo Festival for the fourth time and is taking part in the exhibition of the finalists in Rome.
Via Libetta 1, Rome
From 26.4. until 28.4.2024
Regula Tschumi is part of the 85 women whose work was selected for the Women Street Photographers Annual Exhibition at Artspace PS109 in New York City.
From April 12-29.2024
Opening reception April 12, 6-8pm
More information at WSP
This photo is among the 30 finalists of the Livorno Photo Meeting, taking place from the 17 until 19th November 2023 in Livorno.
The winners will be announced during the festival on the 18th November.
All the finalists and winners will be part of the Livorno Photo Meeting ’23 exhibition.
Regula Tschumi is part of the group show Street sans Frontières in Paris.
This exhibition with the works of 62 international photographers is curated by Martin Vegas.
Galerie Joseph Le Palais in the heart of the Marais, 5 Rue Saint-Merri (Metro Rambuteau)
From 10 to 12 November 2023 – during Paris Photo days.
About 90 photographs from over 15 000 submissions from more than 100 countries were selected by an expert jury as the winners and finalists of the Eyeshot Open Call 2023.
With her photograph Dressing up for a New Year Event Regula Tschumi is one of the 40 finalists.
All the winning images and the finalists will be shown during 3 months in the beautiful Magazzini Fotografici in Naples, starting on November 3rd until January 28.
The photographs will also be printed in the next edition of Eyeshot Magazin.
With her photo titled A delicate balance Regula Tschumi won a second prize at the prestigious Siena Awards in the category Journeys & Adventures.
The photographs of all the winners and Honorable Mentions are published in a beautiful cataloge and shown in the exhibition People Sharing all the World at Via Fiorentina in Siena, from 1.10. until 19.11.2023.
The photographs of the SIPA winners 2023 are now published online at the SIPA website.
Regula Tschumi’s photo of an outdoor Sunday Mass in Ghana (2019) is shown in the exhibition “A wall of women by women“, a project by Unexposed Collective and curated by the photographers Julia Coddington and Rebecca Wiltshire.
Ballarat International Foto Biennale in Australia
26.8. until 22.10.2023
Regula Tschumi’s photo titled «A delicate balance» (Ghana 2022) is the winner of the 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2023 for Women Photographers in the category NON Pro-single Street Photography.
For the 3rd time Regula Tschumi is part with four photographs from Ghana at the Treviso Photographic Festival.
From September 5th to 24th in Treviso, Veneto, Italy
Regula Tschumi is together with the well-known photographers Birgul Koc, Alison McCauley, Matt Stuart, Umberto Verdoliva and Vineet Vohra one of the six judges of this year’s Pisa Street Photography International Festival 2023, which will take place in Pisa from September 23rd to 24th, 2023.
For the 3rd time Regula Tschumi is a finalist of the Italian Street Photography Festival.
All the photographs of the finalists will be exhibited in Rome from 28.4. to 30.4.2023.
The winners will be announced on the 29th April at the festival.
All informations about the festival at ISPF
74 Women street photographers and one solo show are exhibited in the annual Women Street Photographers exhibition in New York. For the 3rd time Regula Tschumi is part of this exhibition, this time with her photo titled Flower Girl (Ghana 2022).
The photos were selected by the guest judges Tracey Woods, Aline Smithson and Laura Noble, and the show was curated by Gulnara Samoilova, founder of Women Street Photographers.
The exhibition at El Barrio’s Artspace PS109 in New York is now open and it ends on the 30.4.2023
More details on the WSP website
A Women Street Photographers virtual exhibition with photographs from 53 women photographers from 20 countries.
The photos were selected by Time Magazine editor Whitney Hollington and the show was curated by Gulnara Samoilova, founder of Women Street Photographers.
The exhibition is online until 10.4.2023.
Regula Tschumi’s photograph from Ghana is part of this virtual show.
Du cercueil au dessin : Réalité, spiritualité et codes
culturels dans l’oeuvre graphique d’Ataa Oko Addo
Avec Regula Tschumi
Jeudi 9 mars 2023 de 14h00 à 17h00
Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines
The french and the english translations of the german book Ataa Oko Addo have been released and can now be ordered at Edition Clandestin or in any bookshop.
The artist Ataa Oko Addo (1919 – 2012) of La in Ghana is seen as a pioneer of the world-famous Ghanaian coffin art. In 2002, after he first met the Swiss ethnologist Regula Tschumi, the former coffin artist, now aged over 80, began to draw. Until his death, Ataa Oko produced a unique body of graphic work, that provides insight into Ghanaian culture and the spiritual world of the artist.
With texts by Sarah Lombardi, Regula Tschumi, Lucienne Peiry and Atta Kwami
Hardcover, 256 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm, ill. 4-colored u. b/w
German ISBN 978-3-907262-04-7
English ISBN 978-3-907262-05-4
French ISBN 978-3-907262-06-1