About the Artist:
Ana Korkia’s artistic practice engages with questions of displacement, inherited memory, and material fragility. Coming from a refugee family, her work is informed by experiences of movement across places, cultures, and generations, and by the subtle, long-term effects such movements imprint on both bodies and materials.
Working across painting, ceramics, and installation, Korkia approaches materials not as fixed or neutral, but as active carriers of memory. She is particularly drawn to elements traditionally associated with durability and stability, such as tiles, carpets, architectural surfaces, and domestic materials and deliberately subjects them to processes of fragmentation, repetition, and destabilization. Through this, materials that are expected to endure are rendered vulnerable, provisional, and exposed.
Her practice often employs modular systems and repetitive structures, echoing the way memory operates: partial, layered, and subject to erosion. Rather than narrating displacement directly, Korkia focuses on its quiet aftermath, the lingering tension between presence and absence, permanence and collapse. Objects and surfaces appear as if they are holding something that is on the verge of slipping away.
By moving fluidly between media, Korkia creates spaces in which material uncertainty becomes palpable. Her works invite viewers to consider how histories are inherited rather than chosen, and how personal and collective memory continues to shape one’s relationship to place long after physical movement has ended.
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Biography:
Ana Korkia (b. 2003 Georgia) is an artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. She works with painting, ceramics, and installation. She is currently studying at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Alongside her artistic practice, she is actively engaged in the contemporary art scene in Cologne and Düsseldorf.
Education:
2021-2023 University of Tbilisi; School of visual Arts, Architecture and Design - VA[A]DS. With Thea Gvetadze, Tamuna Chabashvili, NIno Kvrivishvili, Giorgi Khaniashvili, Nino Kintsuarshvili and Dato Meskhi.
2023 - Present Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. With Ellen Gallagher.
Selected Group shows:
2022 - TAF (Tbilisi art Fair), Tbilisi, Georgia.
2023 - The Garden of our Struggles and Joy, Gori Arthouse, Gori, Georgia.
2025 - Winter Rundgang, Art academy of Duesseldorf, Germany. Class of Ellen Gallagher.
Solo Show:
2023 - Namikrepia, 4710 Contemporary Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Awards & Grants:
2019 - Jugendkunstpreis Erkner, Erkner, Germany.
2021 - Fully Funded by the Knowledge Foundation (Tsodnis Fondi) for one Academic year In VA[A]DS.
2021 - Partially (70%) State funding for private University (Kakha Bendukidze Campus).
2025 - Public prize winner (Publikumspreis), Gesundheitspolitischer Jahresauftakt 2025, Apobank. K21, Duesseldorf, Germany.
2026 - Public prize winner (Publikumspreis), Gesundheitspolitischer Jahresauftakt 2026, Apobank. K21, Duesseldorf, Germany.