Anna K.E. (b. 1986 in Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in Queens, New York. Anna K.E.’s practice investigates the body as agent and receptor in a technologically and physically mediated landscape; and the absurd nature of the creative act. Working across painting, sculpture, performance, and photography, K.E. mines the tension and humor of the body in space, and the ironies of social relationships and transactions. Upcoming solo shows include Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (2024) and the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (2024). Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany (2013, 2015, 2020, 2022); National Georgian Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia (2022); Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, Georgia (2022); Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2013, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021); The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, USA (2020); Georgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2019); Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany (2019); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany (2018); Queens Museum, Queens, NY, USA (2017-2018); Primary, Nottingham, UK (2017); Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (2016). Recent group exhibitions include Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2023); E.A Shared Space, Tbilisi, Georgia (2022); Oxygen Biennial, Tbilisi, Georgia (2021); Hardspace, Basel, Switzerland (2019); September Gallery, Hudson, NY, USA (2018); Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany (2018); Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (2017); G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany (2016); The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA (2015); Kunstverein Wiesen e.V. Wiesen, Wiesen, Germany (2015); Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen, Switzerland (2015). Anna K.E. represented Georgia at the 2019 Venice Biennale with her work REARMIRRORVIEW, Simulation is Simulation, is Simulation, is Simulation, 2019. The Kunstpalais Erlangen published a catalog of Anna K.E. and Florian Meisenberg’s collaborative practice titled Complimentary Blue, on the occasion of their collaborative solo exhibition at the museum in 2019. In 2012, Hatje Cantz published Anna K.E.’s first monograph entitled A well-to-do man is cruising in his fancy car when a small hen runs out on the road in front. K.E’s work is in the public collections of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf im Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany; the Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland; the Cologne Staatskanzlei NRW, Cologne, Germany; the Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany; and the Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium.