Tekla Aslanishvili

Tekla Aslanishvili is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist based between Berlin and Tbilisi. She completed her studies at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 2009 and holds a Master of Arts from the Berlin University of the Arts in Experimental Film and New Media department. In her practice, the artist observes the shifting relations between governments, people, and their territories through the lens of large-scale infrastructure projects.
In 2019 Tekla Aslanishvili was a fellow of the program Digital Earth, she was a nominee for the Ars-Viva Art Prize 2021, and a recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation – Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Award 2020. Currently, Tekla Aslanishvili is a postgraduate fellow at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Tekla photo by Roberto Ruiz
Landscapes of an Ongoing Past Uli Golub Babushka in Space 2017 The Palace of Specials ©

Landscapes of an Ongoing Past

Looking at the landscapes of the Ruhr area, Landscapes of an Ongoing Past traces questions of industrial production and relates them to the aftermath of socialist ideologies.