Anna Ehrenstein is an Albanian-German interdisciplinary artist investigating forms of knowledge and their construction, creating sculptural and virtual installations that explore networked objects, communities, and epistemologies in a post-digital, neocolonial world. Using lens-based media, textile, sculpture, installation, social engagement, and writing, Ehrenstein’s research-centered work examines how digital-material culture reshapes power. Born in Germany to Albanian parents with Albanian, Turkish, Kosovar, and Egyptian roots, she investigates creolization, plasticity, mythology, Islamic and proto-science fiction, alongside critical theory and pop culture. Her background inspires her interest in the necropolitics of migration and Eurasian identity construction.

Ehrenstein was a 2023-2024 guest professor in the “New Practice In Art And Technology” MFA program at TU and UDK Berlin and currently holds a professorship at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Her accolades include the 2021 Berlin Senate Research Scholarship, the 2020 C/O Berlin Talent Award for “New Documentary Strategies,” and a 2019 DAAD scholarship for research at UNAL, Colombia. Ehrenstein has exhibited at venues like the Ural Biennale, KOW Berlin, and C/O Berlin Foundation. She lives and works between Berlin, Tirana, and the cloud.