Fotografiska Academy: Create Your Own Artwork

Overview

Join artist Anna Ehrenstein for a hands-on workshop where you’ll create your own assemblage artwork using found objects, digital imagery, and everyday materials. Inspired by Anna’s post-digital, interdisciplinary practice, this workshop invites you to explore how personal narratives, technology, and identity can be transformed into sculptural visual statements.

Image credit: © Anna Ehrenstein

Recommended For

Anyone! No previous experience is needed - just bring curiosity, playfulness, and a willingness to experiment creatively

Key Takeaways

• Create a unique assemblage artwork using found, digital, and everyday materials
• Learn core assemblage techniques
• Explore how personal narratives, technology, and identity translate into sculptural form
• Exhibition tour with the artist, providing a deep insight into her practice.

Materials Provided By Us

• Magazines
• Papers and foil
• Decorative elements
• Drawing markers
• Scissors and cutters
• Glue sticks
• Cutting boards

Materials Needed

• Your own canvas or paper
• Any reference images or additional materials you would like to use

About The Host

Anna Ehrenstein, b. 1993, Germany/Albania

Anna Ehrenstein works in transdisciplinary artistic practice with an emphasize on research, pedagogy and collaboration. Her practice encompasses lens-based media, installation, social moments, and writing.

She studied media art, photography and curation and has been teaching at various prestigious academies and institutions, amongst others Bard College, Technical University and UDK Berlin, Germany, Stellenbosch Academy, South Africa or Photopia Cairo, Egypt.

Born in Germany to Albanian parents with transottoman ancestry: Albanian, Turkish, Kosovar & Egyptian; she is interested in concepts of plasticity, creolisation, myths, islamic & proto-science fiction and popular culture. Her works circulate around the material culture of the periphery, networked images and ecologies in our interconnected state of prosumption. The materialization of intangible data is as much part of her installation process as community and collectivity.

Ehrenstein exhibited internationally and her work is found in public and private collections; amongst others the Museum of Modern Art Warszawa, the collection of the German State or the Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Schedule

11:00 Introduction & exhibition tour / Materials & techniques

• Overview of Anna’s practice and assemblage in contemporary art
• Object selection and short demo on composition, layering, texture, and contrast

12:10 Break

12:15 Creating  your own assemblage

• Guided making session with creative prompts
• Group sharing & reflection
• Presentation and feedback

13:30 Wrap-up

Tickets

• 80€ – Workshop (incl. Museum)
• 65€ – For Members
• 144 € – Workshop (incl. Membership)*

*This bundle ticket includes the workshop entry and a one-year Fotografiska Membership (Member tier). After your purchase, our team will reach out to activate your membership