Anna Ehrenstein
2011 Photographic Studies B.A., University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Dortmund
2018 Postgraduate Studies Media Arts, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
“My artistic practice is often concerned with the relationship between subject and object in the digital age, basically what we can learn about society from material culture.” -Anna Ehrenstein
In her artistic work, Anna Ehrenstein is particularly interested in the relationship between „man“ and „object“ in the digital age: How do values change? Who has influence? What role do selfies play? Having grown up between Albania and Germany, realities and reflections around migration-related material culture and diasporic narratives run like a thread through her work. Ehrenstein therefore often engages with the intersection of technology and migration. Whether lens- based media, installations, social moments, sculptures, prints, or writings, Ehrenstein's artistic practice is diverse and, above all, transdisciplinary.
Grants
2020 C/O Talent Award 2020
2019 DAAD Scholarship Research at UNAL, Bogota
Förderpreis KHM
Jury Selection Plattform, Fotomuseum Winterthur
2018 Fondation des Treilles
2017 Landskrona Portfolio Price
Journal
„KOMMT DIE CHAYA IM BEAMTEN DRAG UND MACHT NOCH MEHR ACTION HEGDL“ by Carolin Würfel, Zeit
Imagined Inevitabilities, Kuba Paris, 2024
Pixel Party – Hybride Welten at ARD
Studio Visit with Berlin Art Link
C/O Berlin Asks. Anna Ehrenstein. Tools for Conviviality. C/O Berlin talent award
Selected exhibitions
2025
CRIPTO SIRENAS, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE
CRIPTO SIRENAS, Goethe-Institut New York, New York, USA
‘Chommie – The Digital Closet’’ iacollaboration between Anna Ehrenstein and Brian Montshiwa and Mahube Diseko, Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL
2024
Cripto Sirenas, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, DE
Politics of Love, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Tools for Change, HEK Basel, Basel, CH
Sex Reenchanted, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE
Der Sammlung zugeneigt. Fotomuseum Winterthur, DZ BANK, Frankfurt, DE
hold me grieving, Maxim Gorki Theater, curated by Sunny Pfalzer und Anna Ehrenstein, Berlin, DE
Protest Praxis / Tupamaras Technophallus, Weserburg, Bremen, DE
REFUGE, Lagos Biennial, Lagos, NGA
2023
Imagined Inevitabilities, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE (s)
ALTERED EMOTIONS, ARTCO Gallery, Berlin, DE
For Now, Grisebach, Düsseldorf, in cooperation with OFFICE IMPART, DE
Clans of Berlin, CARPARK, Berlin, DE
Out of Scale, Transmediale, Berlin, DE
2022
Das Auto Rosi Aber, KOW, Berlin, DE
The Balkanization of the Cloud OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE (s)
Screen City Biennial, Berlin, DE
Visibilities Ausstellung, Balance Club Culture Festival, Leipzig, DE
Kunststation Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE (s)
Empowerment, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
WE ARE- Feminismus gehört uns allen, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
Various Others, Sperling/KOW, Munich, DE
Pornotopia revised, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT
Biennale for Contemporary Photography- From Where I Stand /// Collective Minds, Mannheim, DE
TUPAMARAS TECHNOPHALLUS, Stadt Galerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, DE (s)
2021
Tools For Conviviality, Landesmuseum Francisco Carolinum, Linz, AT (s)
Home is Where The Hatred Is, KOW Berlin, Berlin, DE (s)
Cafe Contingency, Ural Biennale, Yekaterinburg, RU
Max Pechstein Förderpreis, Kunstammlungen Zwickau, Zwickau, DE
Wild Frictions, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
Tools for Conviviality, C/O Berlin Talent Award 2020, C/O Berlin Foundation, DE (s)
Screen Walks, online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, Online
2020
Come Closer!, Online Exhibition with OFFICE IMPART,
OUT OF THE DARK II, KOW Gallery, Berlin, DE
Corneous Stories, 26th International Festival City of Women, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 VERSAMMLUNGSFREIHEIT – ART. 8 GG, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, DE
New Viewings, Viewing Room Barbara Thumm Gallery, Online
2019
Link In Bio, Mdbk, Leipzig, DE
True Self, Bazament Art Space, Tirana, AL (s)
Porn, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
AL Coffee Ground Imaginairies, Open Source Festival, Düsseldorf, DE (s)
BUZZ with Will Fredo, Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin, DE (s)
2018
4Real, WartefurKunst, Kassel, DE (s)
Tales of Lipstick and Virtue, Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden / Galerie Sira,
Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia / Month of Photography Los Angeles, Row
DTLA, Los Angeles, USA / Museum Centquatre, Paris, FR (s)
No Stop, Non Stop, Lothringer Halle 13, Munich, DE
Moore/Moore, Shang 8 Gallery, Bejing, CH
Butterland, Folkwang Museum, Essen, DE
2017
Tales of Lipstick and Virtue, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, DE (s)
*(s) solo exhibition
Public Collections
Her work is included in the Art Collection Telekom, the Museum of Modern Art Warszawa, Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Collection of the German State / Bundeskunstsammlung, Sammlung Haus N
Monograph
2022 TFC / Anna Ehrenstein, distanz Verlag, Berlin, DE
2020 tools for conviviality, spector books & c/o Berlin, leipzig, DE
2017 tales of lipstick and virtue, edition bessard, paris, FR
Socials
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