ABOUT

Ana Mikadze (b*2002), Georgian designer, artist and art researcher of Armenian descent (Kars). With a background in industrial design, their work mainly addresses the material and infrastructural legacies of imperialism in the Caucasus, tracing them to the contemporary conditions of extractivism and labor. Ana’s work moves across installations, investigations, text and material inquiry.

PROJECTS 

KATAULA 2025    
Material research, Installation

WE WISH YOU A SAFE RIDE
2024    

Artistic Intervention

TRIPLE SPINE RELIEF DESIGN CARE BODY
2023
Installation, Research

ENERGY AS A TOOL OF HYBRID WARFARE 2022
Installation, Research, API

LIMINAL OSSETIA 2021
Research

THE ENERGY ATLAS 2022
Research Publication
WRITING

Ziggurat is a form of corrupt architecture in Tbilisi, 2023

Othering by design: Auto-ethnographic design practices in times of capitalist doom, Essay, 2024

Invisible Threads: Women, Carceral labor and Imperial Sericulture in the Caucasus, Work in progress, 2025


VISUAL 

EPHEMERA 2022
Sculpture

GLAZE PAINTING 2025
Tiles

VARIOUS WORKS 2022 - 2025





TRIPLE SPINE RELIEF DESIGN CARE BODY, 2023
variable dimensions
found chairs, home-gym, screen, speakers, gypsum, paint, paper mache.  
Video loop on screen

Team: Ana Mikadze, Livni Holtz, Can Denzer, Dunia Sahir

Cognitive capitalism found fertile grounds in pandemic lockdowns and changed working conditions, normalising home offices, where the invisibility of the human labour behind AI can be exploited to the core. Through outlining the hidden systems behind AI training and urgencies related to worker’s rights, the installation recreates the hostile environment of a fictitious abandoned office.

‘‘Two Georgian content moderators can be heard having a conversation in which neglected basic working conditions at their workplace take central stage. They work at a secondary outsourcing company, where NDAs prohibit them from dis-closing any information about their work and conveniently make any form of protesting or unionizing impossible.’’