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
We wish you a safe ride
Energy as a tool of hybrid
warfare
Temple of the Sun
Liminal Ossetia
What might become of a body of water
Design Tourism
Triple spine relief design care body
Queer Types
The Energy Atlas
Xaraxura Press
Sculpture / Material research
Ephemera series
Quarry glaze research
Textiles
Kataula
We wish you a safe ride
Energy as a tool of hybrid
warfare
Temple of the Sun
Liminal Ossetia
What might become of a body of water
Design Tourism
Triple spine relief design care body
Queer Types
The Energy Atlas
Xaraxura Press
Sculpture / Material research
Ephemera series
Quarry glaze research
Textiles
© 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.
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.