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


Work


Kataula (Material research, Installation), 2025

Invisible Threads: Women, Carceral labor and Imperial Sericulture in Caucasus (Research, Work in progess), 2025

We wish you a safe ride (Artistic Intervention), 2024

Energy as a tool of hybrid warfare (Installation, Research, API), 2022

Temple of the Sun (Video), 2022

Liminal Ossetia (Research), 2021

What might become of a body of water (Installation), 2024

Triple spine relief design care body (Installation), 2023

The Energy Atlas (Publication), 2022

Ephemera (Sculpture), 2022







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






© Ana Mikadze 2025
open to collaborations
We wish you a safe ride 
2024

credits: WIENWOCHE/ Olesya Kleymenova 
Artistic Intervention,
Vienna, Austria

In fact, food delivery riders, most of them migrants, have almost no labour protection. During WIENWOCHE,  “state of matter” Verein (Ana Mikadze, Fabio Hofer) called for active solidarity in connecting the festival audience with the riders, whose work shifts were taken over by volunteers on a solidarity basis. In this way, the riders used their time off duty to learn about their rights and connect to colleagues, who they have been deliberately disconnected from through the working environments dictated by the platforms.

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