The Language of The Soil conjures a speculative cosmology from the traces of digital labor and extraction.
Based on joint research with scientists specializing in digital work from Berlin and Nairobi, and in collaboration with collectives of designers, gig workers, and artists in Kenya, Egypt, and Albania, Anna Ehrenstein develops 360° videos, sculptural worlds, and photographic assemblages that transform documents into new mythologies.
This project was developed in collaboration with scientists Ariana Dongus, Richard Mathenge, Mophat Okinyi, and Fasica Berhane.
The Language of The Soil, 2026
Solo exhibition at Fotografiska Berlin
A Language of the Soil, 2026
360 degree video
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Mixed media, spray paint and acrylic
Artist frame
100 x 150 cm
Nail laquer, mirror
90 x 60 cm
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Blue Pill Red Pill A.I. Avatar, 2026
3D print, painted, Iphone
30 x 24 x 90 cm
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Monstrous General Adverserial Intelligence Avatar, 2026
3D print, painted, Iphone
90 x 41 x 56 cm
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Ant Queen Spirit, 2026
Recycled steel sculpture and costume
180 x 50 x 50 cm
The Republic of Ants Kilim, 2026
Handwoven rug, with Zana Hoxha
150 x 120 cm
Worker Monument, 2026
Recycled steel sculpture
70 x 40 x 40 cm
Anna Ehrenstein
Anna Ehrenstein works in transdisciplinary artistic practice with an emphasis on research and mediation. She is using print, video, installation, social moments or sculpture to reverberate the intersections and divergences of high and low cultures and their socio-economic and bio-political constitutions. Born in Germany with Albanian heritage and raised between the two cultures, realities and reflections around migration-related visual culture, diasporic narrations, networked images and the class hierarchy of pixels form main foci due to her own intercultural experiences.
She has been awarded with different prizes such as the Talent Award of c/o Berlin in 2020, the Prix Prictet, the NRW.BANK Kunstpreis, the Förderpreis KHM in 2019, the Fondation des Treilles in 2018 and her first ever prize being the Landskrona Portfolio Price in 2017. She has held solo exhibitions at Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken (2022), Tools for Conviviality, c/o Berlin (2021), Francisco Carolinum, Linz (2021), Gold & Beton, Cologne (2020). Her work has been included in exhibitions at international institutions such as Kunstmuseum Wolgsburg (2022), Kunsthalle Osnabrpck (2022), 6th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg (2022), MgbK, Leipzig (2019), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2019), Museum Folkwang, Essen (2018).
- Anna Boghiguian
- Candice Breitz
- Marco A. Castillo
- CATPC
- Alice Creischer
- Chto Delat
- Clegg & Guttmann
- Eugenio Dittborn
- Heinrich Dunst
- Anna Ehrenstein
- Peter Friedl
- Sophie Gogl
- Barbara Hammer
- Ramon Haze
- Hiwa K
- Hudinilson Jr.
- Simon Lehner
- Renzo Martens
- Oswald Oberhuber
- Mario Pfeifer
- Dierk Schmidt
- Santiago Sierra
- Michael E. Smith
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Clemens von Wedemeyer
- Tobias Zielony