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. Solo and two-person shows include Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (2024, forthcoming); the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (2024); 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.
Anna K.E. - CVAnna K.E.
17.05.2024
Monopol Magazin: Künstlerin Anna K.E. "Ich kreiere ein ironisches Selbstporträt"
Press
18.05.2022
Frieze New York, with Simone Subal Gallery, New York
Fair
12.01.2022
TheGuide.Art: Blowing From the East Fallen Leaves Gather in the West
Press
30.11.2021
Hyperallergic: Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2021
Press
02.03.2021
Escape Routes, FIAC Online Viewing Rooms with Simone Subal Gallery
Fair
04.12.2020
Intangible Economies of Desire at The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
Museum Show
01.05.2020
Artforum: DAILY DRAWINGS: WEEK TWO
Press
01.04.2020
Spike: TOO MUCH TO WORRY ABOUT
Press
01.01.2020
Contemporary Blue, Anna K.E. & Florian Meisenberg, ed. by Amelie Deiss and MalteLin Kröger, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2020.
Publication
01.07.2019
REARMIRRORVIEW, Simulation is Simulation, is Simulation, is Simulation… at Georgian Pavilion, curated by Margot Norton, Venice Biennale, Venice
Museum Show
28.06.2019
Complimentary Blue at Kunstpalais Erlangen, curated by Amely Deiss & Milena Mercer, Erlangen, Germany
Museum Show
11.06.2019
11 Comrades of Time at Hardspace, Basel, Switzerland
Gallery Show
10.05.2019
Frieze: The Art of Getting It Wrong – 58th Venice Biennale: The Best of the Arsenale Pavilions
Press
08.05.2019
Cultured: DANCE HALLS, PIGEONS & REVERENT HOMAGES: OUR FAVORITE VENICE BIENNALE INSTALLATIONS
Press
30.04.2019
Livestream: Anna K.E. & Florian Meisenberg in conversation with Brian Droitcour
Event
15.02.2019
“Interviews: Anna K.E. on her presentation for the 58th Venice Biennale”, Artforum.
Publication
01.01.2019
Franchini, Attilia Fattori. “Conversations: A Body to Tune into Simulation: Anna K.E.,” Mousse. July 2019.
Publication
10.04.2018
Roesler hotel #28: screenspace, curated by Vik Muniz, Lucas Blalock, and Barney Kulok, at Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo
Gallery Show
16.02.2018
New York Times: What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week: Anna K.E.
Press
08.11.2017
Feminismus 3.0 at Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn
Gallery Show
07.11.2017
Late Checkout, (West Berlin) with Florian Meisenberg, WNTRP, Berlin
Gallery Show
12.10.2017
Sequences Festival curated by Margot Norton, Iceland
Museum Show
03.06.2017
Hybrid Layers at ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Gallery Show
09.04.2017
Profound Approach and Easy Outcome at Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum Show
09.04.2017
Profound Approach and Easy Outcome at Queens Museum of Art, New York
Museum Show
08.12.2016
Vice: The 6 Freshest Booths at Art Basel’s Nova Section
Press
12.11.2016
Ghost Flowers curated by Lea Schleiffenbaum, Herrmann Germann Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum Show
21.10.2016
Late Checkout II (Electric Forest) at Signal, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Show
01.07.2016
Architectural Digest: Anna K.E. e Florian Meisenberg. Il mondo in uno smartphone
Press
10.06.2016
Stosunki Pracy/Labor Relations: From the International Contemporary Art Collection of Wroclaw Contemporary Museum at Wroclaw Contemporary Museum
Museum Show
29.04.2016
Nuit Blanche Monaco curated by Joerg Heiser, Monaco
Gallery Show
11.03.2016
Countdown Belladonna at Salon Kennedy, Frankfurt, Germany
Gallery Show
27.02.2016
Watermark at Signal, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Show
11.02.2016
New York Times: T magazine: How Five New York Artist Couples Share Space
Press
01.01.2016
Night Transmissons: Electronic Intimacy, TV sets in Iceland transform into art venues
Museum Show
01.01.2016
Labor Relations. From the International Contemporary Art Collection of Wroclaw Contemporary Museum
Museum Show
01.06.2015
Neue Zucher Zeitung: Rosinenpicken im Gebaudelabyrinth
Press
19.04.2015
Teen Paranormal Romance at Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara,CA
Museum Show
18.04.2015
Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, curated by Friedrich Grafling and Johanna Stemmler at Kunstverein Wiesen e.V. Wiesen, Germany
Museum Show
13.01.2015
No entrance, no exit curated by Lumi Tan at The Kitchen, New York, NY
Museum Show
25.10.2014
Teen Paranormal Romance at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Museum Show
09.11.2013
Queens International 2013 at Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (CAT)
Museum Show
15.06.2013
Frieze: Anna K.E.: Sisyphean tasks and the failed Utopias of Modernist architecture
Press
24.02.2013
Body Light at Venus & Apollo, the project space of Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Museum Show
01.01.2013
Bandit from the Brick Factory at Figge von Rosen, Cologne, Germany
Gallery Show
07.10.2012
Qui Vive? at The III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
Museum Show
01.01.2012
He Was Hit By a Car, Can He Still Dance? at Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
Museum Show
01.01.2012
Lecture at NY Studio Residency Program (Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design), New York, NY
Event
01.01.2011
Kunstpreis Junger Westen 2011 at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Museum Show
01.01.2010
Leave Your Hat On, Von Beuys Inspiriert, Schmela Haus at Museum K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum Show
01.01.2008
Permanent Vacation at EY artforum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Gallery Show
01.01.2007
Being Spielberg at Galerie Hasen presents Anna K.E. & Florian Meisenberg, Schaufenster des Kunstvereins für die Rheinlande und Westphalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum Show
01.01.2007
Museum for… at di.vitrine, Düsseldorf, Germany
Gallery Show
01.01.2007
Healthy Children for a Wealthy Future at Kunstcodex Codexpartners, München, Germany
Museum Show
01.01.2007
Anna K.E. feat. Florian Meisenberg, Performance with installation parallel to ART Cologne, citta di bologna, Cologne, Germany
Event