Anna Ehrenstein

1993 Born in Germany. Working and living in Berlin, Cologne and Tirana, Albania
2011 Photographic Studies B.A., University of Applied Arts and Sciences, Dortmund

2017 & 2018 Curatorial School, University of Malta
2018 Postgraduate Studies Media Arts, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

2019 Curatorial Intensive, Lagos Biennale

“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 (part of quicklyasked interview with Anna Ehrenstein by OFFICE IMPART)

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

Selected exhibitions

2022

*solo exhibition, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE (s)

Pornotopia revised, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT

Biennale for Contemporary Photography- From Where I Stand /// Collective Minds, Mannheim, DE

ANNA EHRENSTEIN: TUPAMARAS TECHNOPHALLUS, Stadt Galerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, DE (s)

2021
Tools For Conviviality, Landesmuseum Francisco Carolinum, Linz
Home is Where The Hatred Is, KOW Berlin, Berlin
Cafe Contingency, Ural Biennale, Yekaterinburg
Max Pechstein Förderpreis, Kunstammlungen Zwickau, Zwickau
Wild Frictions, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
Tools for Conviviality, C/O Berlin Talent Award 2020, C/O Berlin Foundation
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
Contamination/Resilience, curated by Thea Reifler and Philipp Bergmann, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Corneous Stories, 26th International Festival City of Women, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Flaneur*in oder Spaßverderber*in, feldfünf e.V., Berlin
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 – VERSAMMLUNGSFREIHEIT – ART. 8 GG, Villa Schöningen, Berlin
New Viewings, Viewing Room Barbara Thumm Gallery, Online
Anna Baba & the forty thieves, Performance, Gold und Beton, Cologne

2019
Link In Bio, Mdbk, Leipzig
True Self, Bazament Art Space, Tirana, Albania (s)
Porn, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
AL Coffee Ground Imaginairies, Open Source Festival, Düsseldorf (s) 
BUZZ with Will Fredo, Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin (s) 

2018
4Real, WartefurKunst, Kassel (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, France (s) 
No Stop, Non Stop, Lothringer Halle 13, Munich 
Moore/Moore, Shang 8 Gallery, Bejing, China 
Butterland, Folkwang Museum, Essen

2017
Tales of Lipstick and Virtue, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne (s)

*(s) solo exhibition