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Anna K.E.

If You Smell Like A Garlic I Will Love You Even More
Kunstmuseen Krefeld and Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover

Spielerische Anarchie

The artist Anna K.E.’s (b. Tbilisi, Georgia, 1986; lives and works in New York and Düsseldorf) practice revolves around a continual engagement with the human body. She studies personal and collective physical experiences of time, dance, and pain, intertwining these themes in site-specific installations that frame humorous perspectives on the exhibition space’s architectural guidance systems and structures and shatter the social norms that govern it. Meanwhile, the artist always also ties back in with her own life story and her formative experiences of growing up in Georgia and training as a ballet dancer. Anna K.E.’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions in several countries; in 2019, she represented Georgia at the 58th Venice Biennale. 

Released on occasion of the exhibitions Dolorem Ipsum at the Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover and For Our Parents at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, the publication IF YOU SMELL LIKE A GARLIC I WILL LOVE YOU EVEN MORE delves into Anna K.E.’s practice, which cannot be reduced to a single medium—she draws, paints, films, photographs, performs; she creates sculptures and elaborate three-dimensional scenarios that situate the human being in a world defined by profound uncertainty no less than by free- dom. With contributions by Estelle Hoy, Sylvia Martin, Alexander Wilmschen, and the artist herself.