The Language of The Soil, 2026

Solo exhibition at Fotografiska Berlin

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.

Anna Ehrenstein, Monstrous General Adverserial Intelligence Avatar, 2026, 3D print, painted, Iphone, 90 x 41 x 56 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP

Anna Ehrenstein, The Harem At The Mercy of Her Technological Master, 2026, nail laquer, mirror, 90 x 60 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP

Anna Ehrenstein, You Are Nothing Without The Million Clicks, 2026, nail laquer, mirror, 90 x 60 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP

Anna Ehrenstein, The Insatiable Artificial Humanoid Foreign Exotic, 2026, nail laquer, mirror, 90 x 60 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP

Anna Ehrenstein, The Wake - Technical Ode To Christina Sharp, 2026, mixed media, spray paint and acrylic, artist frame, 100 x 150 cm

Anna Ehrenstein, Fossil Futures, 2026, mixed media, spray paint and acrylic, artist frame, 100 x 150 cm

Anna Ehrenstein, The Way Soil Stores Heat, 2026, mixed media, spray paint and acrylic, artist frame, 150 x 100 cm

Anna Ehrenstein, Asha Soil Remote Labour Protocols, 2026, mixed media, spray paint and acrylic, artist frame, 150 x 100 cm

Anna Ehrenstein, Brian Keeping Thangs aka The Earth Running, 2026, mixed media, spray paint and acrylic, artist frame, 150 x 100 cm

Anna Ehrenstein, Patricia Earth Armour, 2026, mixed media, spray paint and acrylic, artist frame, 150 x 100 cm

Anna Ehrenstein, The Republic of Ants Kilim, 2026, handwoven rug, with Zana Hoxha, 150 x 120 cm

Anna Ehrenstein, Worker Monument, 2026, recycled steel sculpture, 70 x 40 x 40 cm

Anna Ehrenstein, Blue Pill Red Pill A.I. Avatar, 2026, 3D print, painted, Iphone, 30 x 24 x 90 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP

Anna Ehrenstein, Ant Queen Spirit, 2026, recycled steel sculpture and costume, 180 x 50 x 50 cm

Anna Ehrenstein, A Language of the Soil, 2026, 360 degree video, edition of 3 + 1 AP, videostill

Anna Ehrenstein, A Languae of the Soil, 2026, 360 degree video, edition of 3 + 1 AP, videostill

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**Melody For A Harem Girl By The Sea, 2023**

**Technophallus Tupamaras, 2020–ongoing**

**Tools for Conviviality, 2018–ongoing**

**Tales of Lipstick and Virtue, 2013–2018**

Biography

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).

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