Copyright © 2026 Ruhail Qaisar. All rights reserved.

FATIMA
2023
Gods Erupt like Tumors,
City Salts Gallery, Basel, CH 
2024
Gods Erupt like Tumors,
City Salts Gallery, Basel, CH 
2024
3 Hymns of Cruelty Les Urbaines,With Gottfrid Ahman & Michael Anklin
Arsenic Lausanne, CH
2022

Ruhail Qaisar is an artist from Leh, Ladakh. His current practice revolves around examining threads of vernacular memory, mythos, and poetics through sound art, compositions, and found sculptures.

Involved within various cross-genre projects since 2015, his early noise shows all over India are recalled as sonic palate-cleansers, he debuted with his concept album Fatima (2023) dubbed by The Quietus as "haunting", released on Danse Noire featuring Dis Fig, and Elvin Brandhi, with a 48-page photo-book publication.

His music channels the abrasive force of noise and power-electronics into stark socio-political reflection, his work is shaped by geographic isolation and global rupture, this is music as pressure point and alarm.

The commissioned hymnal piece for Les Urbaines written in collaboration with Gottfrid Ahman and Michael Anklin , Three Hymns of Cruelty (2022), which delved into the dynamics of Ladakhi procession music, was performed at Arsenic in Lausanne.

He has performed and shown his work at the Zurich Kunsthalle, Salts City Basel, Toxi Zurich, and Gessnerallee Zurich.

He has performed at notable festivals like CTM (Berlin), UH (Budapest), Ultima (Oslo), Le Guess Who? (Utrecht), Alternativa (Prague), and Unsafe and Sounds (Vienna).

In 2024 his residency in Graz, Styria was spent, preparing a 36-channel third order ambisonic composition, Namkhay Rtsima / The Spine of the Sky, for the Musikprotokoll Festival for Austrian National radio ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk) and the Steirischer Herbst’ 24 at the Dom im Berg.

He will be premiering his composition Nadir of Stone : Prelude to a Curved Blade at the Kochi Muziris Biennale, with a three channel installation of VHS found footage, drawing on the propensity of geodesic abstraction, fugue states tying to amnesia, sonics into hauntology, spinal landscapes, and the magmatic arc of the Ladakh batholith propelled into a keening assault of theatrical cruelty and full spectrum power-electronics.


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Studio Album

FATIMA
2023


Compilations

Artists Without Borders
Pornographic Time Vol 3. Drowned by Locals
2026



Audio Visual
CENACLE 97-98
2023



Soundtrack

Andar Bahar
2020

I am Riya
2022


Group Exhibitions

GODS ERUPT LIKE TUMORS
2023


Selected Art Performances

3 Hymns of Cruelty Les Urbaines,
Arsenic Lausanne, CH
2022

ORF Musikprotokoll / Steirischer Herbst
Dom Im Berg, Graz, AT
2024

Gods Erupt like Tumors,
City Salts Gallery, Basel, CH
2024


Press/Radio/Interviews

Struma+Iodine
The Dirty Magazine
Pitchfork (7.8)
The Wire (half-page review)
Gonzo Circus (NL)
Dusted Magazine
Loud and Quiet (8)
Groove Mix & interview
PW Magazine premiere
The Quietus interview
Bandcamp Daily interview
BBC Radio 6, Tom Ravenscroft New Music Fix
BBC Radio 3, Late Junction
BBC Radio 6, Ambient Focus


Selected Music Performances

w/ Puce Mary, Lolina,
Dampfzentrale, Bern, CH
2022

w/ Laurie Tompkins, Czarnagora,
Kunsthalle Zurich, CH
2022

w/ Mai Mai Mai , Aorta,
Liestal, CH
20/10/2022 CH 

Wurm,
Basel, CH
2022

w/ Toxe, Bela, Sense Fracture Danse Noire
OHM, Berlin, DE
2022

Rotule Lex Madone,
Geneva, CH
2022 

Chuchepati Orchestra,
Palace, St Gallen, CH 
2022

CTM Festival, Devouring The Dread,
Berghain Ostgut, Berlin, DE
2023

Oslo Ultima Festival, NO
2023

Geneva Cave 12, CH
2023

Düdingen Bad Bonn, CH
2023

Liestal a_way, CH
2023

Nijmegen Extrapool, NL
2023

Budapest UH Festival at Turbina, HU
2023 

Bratislava T3 - kultúrny prostriedok, SK
2023

Wien Rhiz, AT
2023

Rotterdam Imaginary Terrain at Worm, NL
2023

Berlin Loophole, DE
2023

Roma Klang: Pangea at Hacienda, IT
2023

Utrecht Le Guess Who? Festival, NL
2023

Alternativa Festival: MeetFactory, CZ
2023

Danse Noire and Jokko Collective: FOC, ESP
2023

Backrooms: Zürich Kunsthalle, CH
2023

Wurm Basel, CH
2024

Unsafe+Sounds Festival,
WUK Projektraum Vienna, AT
2024

Kc Ziva, Belgrade, SRB
2024

Phantom Pulse, Bangalore, IND
2025

Dachstock, Bern, CH
2026

Self Repair,
Spazio X, Treviso, ITA
2026

Westbahn Studios, Wien, AT
2026

MaMa, Zagreb, CRO
2026

20nine30,
Paul Lincke Ufer 29, Berlin, DE
2026

Kochi Muziris Biennale, IN
2026