Tekla Aslanishvili

@hannefkensfoundation is delighted to announce Tekla Aslanishvili (b. 1988 Georgia) @tekelson as the inaugural recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation – Eurasia Moving Image Commission, organised in collaboration with @ntcart.museum @kiasmamuseum @artsonje_center @mhkamuseum Aslanishvili said “...this commission encourages me to expand the scope of my cinematic experimentation and to deepen a collective inquiry into how new forms of sociality might be mediated, represented and produced through moving-image practice.” Aslanishvili’s practice is widely recognised for its rigorous research methodology and nuanced exploration of geopolitics, infrastructures and transnational histories. With this new commission, she will further expand her inquiry through an extensive collaborative research process spanning multiple contexts across Eurasia. The Jury commented on how impressed they were by her deep collaborative research across Eurasia, in addition to her deep engagement with with histories of internationalism, while actively imagining it future forms of progressive in the region. Aslanishvili will receive a sum of $120,000 for the production of a screen-based video artwork which will then be exhibited with each partner institution who will also receive one edition of the produced artwork. Today’s announcement follows on from her earlier recognition as the recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation – Museu Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Grant 2020, underscoring her remarkable artistic progression over the past six years. #mhkamuseum #NTCAM #kiasma #artsonje_center

The new two-channel experimental documentary film is out, and this is my thank you note to all my dear friends, old and new, who, despite the troubles suffocating us on so many levels, have invested their energy, knowledge, and imagination into making "The Mountain Speaks to the Sea." The film was developed in research collaboration with Alexandra Aroshvili (@martyr.loser.king ), and I'm grateful for her sharp insights and expertise. I hope this film contributes to her stubborn efforts to bring more justice to life and politics in Georgia. @nikoloztabukashvili ’s camera work in this film is magic. He managed to enter into a dialogue with the rich cinematic history of the South Caucasian mountains, some of which is featured in the film, creating his own powerful interpretation. Nika Pasuri (@_youknowhoe ) and Ani Zakareishvili (@kdema__ ) composed a beautifully strange and captivating score that draws the viewer into layers of confusion, beauty, danger, anticipation, and ongoing struggle. They have built both- connection and magical tension between the region’s past, present, and future through sound and music. @dato_simonia created beautiful Georgian typography, and Viktor Bone (@rhizomarotiv ) produced precise digital reconstructions of maps. Together, they mark the territories and help navigate the region’s rivers, dams, and villages. Two new collaborators have been a huge enrichment both professionally and personally. First, digital colorist Niko Tarielashvili (@nikotar ), who invested a lot of thought and time in bringing fragmented time-space elements, with chaotic mix of colors and scales, into a cohesive and beautiful timeline. Second, my dear new friend, sound designer, Luka Telia, who spent nights with me and the composers to enter every detail of the music and sound, pushing their power even further. I'm grateful to friends who provided support and feedback during different stages of production, especially @rekhviashvili.teona , @cotta.continua , @mar.mariamo , @gago_gagoshidze , @natalianebieridze_ @lukaaslanishvili It gives me hope that we still have the strength and can find joy in working and making films together. Thank you all!

💥 Out now 💥 The Mountain Speaks to the Sea Edited by Tekla Aslanishvili ( @tekelson ) and Silvia Franceschini ( @silvifranceschini ) The Mountain Speaks to the Sea delves into Tekla Aslanishvili’s experimental film trilogy, which investigates regimes of infrastructural governance by examining how ports, railways, and smart city projects act as technologies of citizenship and sovereignty. Images of distant geographies are connected with future orientations, revealing the disruptive impacts of large-scale energy and transportation projects on the ecologies of the South Caucasus. The Mountain Speaks to the Sea is also the first book in the editorial series Systems & Territories, curated by Silvia Franceschini. Design by Kai Udema ( @__kai___________ ) With contributions by Alexandra Aroshvili ( @martyrloserking ), Ifor Duncan ( @iforduncan ), Silvia Franceschini, Evelina Gambino ( @cotta.continua ), and Timothy Mitchell. € 20 ISBN 978-94-93382-13-8 Onomatopee 261 Available through #linkinbio Save the date | BOOK LAUNCH at Art Basel 📍 Critical Media Lab at the HGK Basel ( @hgkbasel_criticalmedialab ) 20 June More info follows soon! #OMP #onomatopee #bookpublication #booksbooksbooks #publishinghouse #newpublication

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STONE OF HELL in DISMANTLE THE ANTHROPOCENE TEKLA ASLANISHVILI & GIORGI GAGO GAGOSHIDZE STONE OF HELL reveals that worlds constructed by extractive industries have a short lifespan. The film is set in Chiatura—a Georgian town that was founded on the extraction of manganese, a mineral used to strengthen steel. Yet the cornerstone upon which Chiatura was built has come to be known by its residents as the ‘stone of hell’. The film of Tekla Aslansivili and Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze discloses how the mining, enrichment, and exportation of manganese weave together histories of local extraction and global political violence; how these processes operate in the interest of those in power while leaving behind exhausted bodies and landscapes. Photography by Sander van Wettum and Joris van den Einden. Visit DISMANTLE THE ANTHROPOCENE at RADIUS (Tu-Sun, 11-17) ⌀⌀⌀⌀⌀ STONE OF HELL laat zien dat werelden die zijn opgebouwd rondom extractie een korte levensduur hebben. De film speelt zich af in Chiatura, een Georgische stad die haar bestaan te danken heeft aan de winning van mangaan— een mineraal dat wordt gebruikt om staal te versterken. Maar de hoeksteen waarop Chiatura is gebouwd, is in de loop van de jaren bij de inwoners bekend komen te staan als de ‘steen van de hel’. De film van Tekla Aslansivili en Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze onthult hoe de winning, verrijking en export van mangaan geschiedenissen van lokale ontginning en geopolitiek geweld met elkaar verweven; hoe deze processen in het belang van machthebbers opereren en een spoor van uitgeputte lichamen en landschappen achterlaten. Fotografie door Sander van Wettum en Joris van den Einden. Bezoek ONTMANTEL HET ANTROPOCEEN bij RADIUS (di-zon, 11-17)

Unsere Ausstellung „The Plan and the Map“ der georgischen Künstlerin Tekla Aslanishvili ist nur noch bis zum Ende dieser Woche zu sehen. Kommt gerne vorbei und nutzt die letzten Tage für einen Besuch. Auf zwei Stockwerken präsentieren wir vier Filme, die sich mit Infrastruktur als Ort politischer Macht und sozialer Utopien beschäftigen. Mitwirkende/ Die Ausstellungsarchitektur wurde von Natalia Nebieridze (@natalianebieridze ) entworfen und zeigt Fotografien von Nikoloz Tabukashvili (@nikoloztabukashvili ) und Guram Tikanadze, die die filmische Erzählung in den Raum erweitern. Stone of Hell – Co-Regie: Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze (@gago_gagoshidze ) A State in a State – entwickelt in Forschungskooperation mit Evelina Gambino (@cotta.continua ) The Mountain Speaks to the Sea – entwickelt in Zusammenarbeit mit Alexandra Aroshvili (@martyr.loser.king ) Zu den zentralen Kollaborationen zählen außerdem der Kameramann sowie die georgischen Komponist:innen Nika Pasuri (@youknowhoe ) und Ani Zakareishvili (@kdema_ ) 📸: @jensgerberfotografie ————— Our exhibition “The Plan and the Map” by Georgian artist Tekla Aslanishvili is only on view until the end of this week. Feel free to stop by and make the most of the final days. Across two floors, we present four films that explore infrastructure as a site of political power and social utopias. Contributors / The exhibition architecture is designed by Natalia Nebieridze @natalianebieridze and features photographs by Nikoloz Tabukashvili @nikoloztabukashvili and Guram Tikanadze, expanding the cinematic narrative into space. Stone of Hell - Co-Regie: Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze (@gago_gagoshidze ) A State in a State - entwickelt in Forschungskooperation mit Evelina Gambino (@cotta.continua ) The Mountain Speaks to the Sea - entwickelt in Zusammenarbeit mit Alexandra Aroshvili (@martyr.loser.king ) Key collaborations also include the cinematographer and Georgian composers Nika Pasuri @youknowhoe & Ani Zakareishvili @kdema__ #exhibition #videoart #utopie #nassauischerkunstvereinwiesbaden #exgroundfilmfest

🚂 Our next Fantastic Wednesday is coming on December 10 at 6pm, with Tekla Aslanishvili. @tekelson We’ll meet at the PhD-In-Practice studio (room 201) at the Akademie (Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien) for a lecture-screening presenting fragments from Tekla Aslanishvili’s work in progress. Informal conversations and drinks will follow afterwards. Join us! Tekla Aslanishvili’s lecture guides through her ongoing attempt to make sense of the strategic restructuring of governance, knowledge production, and practices of self-organization around energy production and transit infrastructures in the South Caucasus. By disentangling and re-weaving the threads of spatially and temporally distant political processes, intimate biographies, conflicting emotional regimes, and cinematic imaginaries shaped by the Soviet Union’s industrialization plan, she examines how these layers of past fold into the contemporary enchantments with infrastructural development. Tekla Aslanishvili is an artist and filmmaker based between Berlin, Vienna, and Tbilisi. Her work examines the shifting relations between states, people, and their land through the lens of infrastructure, employing interdisciplinary collaboration and experimental documentary methods to excavate the fragmented histories, technologies, and myths embedded within these systems. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and an ifk Junior Fellow. Her work has been presented in international exhibitions and biennials. She was a 2024–2025 Graduate School fellow at the Berlin University of the Arts, a 2019 Digital Earth fellow, a 2021 Ars Viva nominee, and the recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation – Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Award (2020).

Ties with the City Daniel G. Andújar, Tekla Aslanishvili, Harun Farocki, Nilbar Güreş, and Daniela Ortiz. àngels barcelona – espai 2 / project space presents a video art exhibition during the Loop Festival 2025. (C. Dels Àngels, 16, 08001, Barcelona) 12-22.11.2025 This exhibition gathers five video works that explore the relationship between urban space and social transformation. Through perspectives ranging from the aftermath of war and speculative smart-city infrastructures to performative encounters, silent spatial studies, and acts of resistance, the artists examine how cities influence - and are influenced by - human actions, technologies, and collective aspirations. Together, the works reflect the poetic and political tensions that shape contemporary urban life. 📸.1-2) Exhibition view @nilbarguresworks 📸.3) Nilbar Güreş, Elsewhere ́s Palm Trees, 2012 - 2018, 9´2” 📸.4) Exhibition view @tekelson 📸.5) Tekla Aslanishvili, Scenes from Trial and Error, 2020, 30´ 📸.6) Exhibition view @danillaortiz 📸.7) Daniela Ortiz, Hoz, 2025, 4´11” 📸8.) Daniela Ortiz, Hoz, 2025. Sculpture (Scythe). Metal, 24 x 9 x 2 cm 📸.9) Exhibition view @daniel.g.andujar 📸.10) Daniel G. Andújar, Honor, 2006, Postcapital Archive (1989–2001), 5’24’’ 📸.11) Goya, Yo lo vi, Disasters of war (Print and drawing 1810-1815) 📸.12) Exhibition view #harunfarocki 📸.13) Harun Farocki, Musik Video, 2000, 0:53 sec. 📸.14) Exhibition view © @polmasip @loopbarcelona_festival @loopbarcelona

Ties with the City / Lazos con la ciudad Tekla Aslanishvili, Nilbar Güreş, Harun Farocki, Daniela Ortiz, Daniel G. Andújar 12.11.25 > 22.11.25 Ties with the City / Lazos con la ciudad Tekla Aslanishvili, Nilbar Güreş, Harun Farocki, Daniela Ortiz, Daniel G. Andújar Loop 2025 12.11.25 > 22.11.25 + Project Space by àngels barcelona - Espai2: C/ dels Àngels, 16 This exhibition brings together five video works that trace the complex interplay between urban space, social transformation. Daniel G. Andújar’s old-school video game reveals the reality of war and shows what happens to the city, the environment, and the people after the conflict. From the speculative infrastructures of Anaklia’s smart city in Tekla Aslanishvili’s film, to Harun Farocki’s silent reflection on musical and spatial composition in Music-Video, to Nilbar Güreş’s performative dialogue with two immigrant women on Governor’s Island - formerly a well-known military base in the United States - confronting power and belonging, and finally to Daniela Ortis’s intimate gesture of destroying a fascist Italian knife as an act of transformation, making, and resistance. Each work reveals how cities shape, and are shaped by, human gestures, technologies, and dreams. Ties with the City explores the poetic and political tensions that define our contemporary urban condition. Honor (2006) is a video by Daniel García Andújar, part of his long-term project Postcapital Archive (1989–2001). Constructed from trailers of war-themed video games and amateur footage from real conflicts, it exposes the collapse between simulated and actual warfare in the post-9/11 era. The work deconstructs notions of heroism, precision, and “honor,” revealing how military, media, and entertainment industries fuse into a single apparatus of control and spectacle. Seen today, amid the ongoing violence in Gaza and elsewhere, Honor resonates as a prescient critique of the normalization and aestheticization of war in the digital age. #loopcityscreen

Artist Talk @ exground filmfest 2025 🎬 Wir freuen uns, euch herzlich zum Artist Talk im Rahmen des exground filmfests einzuladen: Samstag, 15. November 2025, 17 Uhr Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden Mit: Lotte Dinse, Direktorin, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden Tekla Aslanishvili, Künstlerin Dr. Evelina Gambino, Margaret-Tyler-Forschungsstipendiatin für Geografie, Girton College, University of Cambridge Begleiten Sie Tekla Aslanishvili und Evelina Gambino auf einer geführten Tour durch ihre langjährige Zusammenarbeit, die sich über fast ein Jahrzehnt erstreckt und zahlreiche Orte sowie Projekte in unterschiedlichen infrastrukturellen Landschaften umfasst. Von dem unvollendeten Hafen im georgischen Fischerdorf Anaklia über Geschichten von Verzögerungen und politischer Sabotage entlang der Baku-Tbilisi-Kars-Bahnlinie bis hin zu den extraktiven Logiken der Wasserkraftnutzung, die sich tief in die Landschaft Georgiens eingeschrieben haben. Wir freuen uns auf euren Besuch! ⸻ We’re delighted to invite you to the Artist Talk as part of the exground filmfest: Saturday, November 15, 2025, 5 PM Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden With: Lotte Dinse, Director, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden Tekla Aslanishvili, Artist Dr. Evelina Gambino, Margaret Tyler Research Fellow in Geography, Girton College, University of Cambridge Join Tekla Aslanishvili and Evelina Gambino on a guided tour through their decade-long collaboration spanning numerous sites and projects across diverse infrastructural landscapes. From the unfinished port in the Georgian fishing village of Anaklia, to tales of delay and political sabotage along the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway, to the extractive logics of hydropower deeply inscribed in Georgia’s terrain. We look forward to seeing you! 📸 Foto: Tekla Aslanishvili und Evelina Gambino während der Entstehung von "Scenes from Trial and Error", 2019 #ArtistTalk #exgroundfilmfest #NassauischerKunstverein #TeklaAslanishvili #EvelinaGambino #ArtTalk #Wiesbaden #ContemporaryArt #Georgia

📅 Opening: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 | 6 pm 📍 Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden The artist Tekla Aslanishvili (*1988 in Tbilisi, Georgia) presents her first major solo exhibition in Germany. In her video works, she explores how infrastructures – from railway lines to energy grids – shape political power, social utopias, and geopolitical conflicts. The Plan and the Map weaves together meticulous research and poetic imagery to create a multilayered filmic chronicle of the construction, collapse, and transformation of infrastructure. The exhibition architecture is designed by Natalia Nebieridze @natalianebieridze and features photographs by Nikoloz Tabukashvili @nikoloztabukashvili and Guram Tikanadze, expanding the cinematic narrative into space. Stone of Hell – Co-Regie: Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze (@gago_gagoshidze ) A State in a State – entwickelt in Forschungskooperation mit Evelina Gambino (@cotta.continua ) The Mountain Speaks to the Sea – entwickelt in Zusammenarbeit mit Alexandra Aroshvili (@martyr.loser.king ) Key collaborations also include the cinematographer and Georgian composers Nika Pasuri @youknowhoe & Ani Zakareishvili @kdema_ The film Scenes from Trial and Error (2020) is also this year’s contribution to the exground filmfest. ———————— 📅 Eröffnung: Do, 16. Okt 2025 | 18 Uhr 📍 Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden     Die Künstlerin Tekla Aslanishvili (*1988 in Tbilisi, Georgien) zeigt ihre erste umfassende Einzelausstellung in Deutschland.In ihren filmischen Arbeiten erforscht sie, wie Infrastrukturen – von Bahnlinien bis zu Energienetzen – politische Macht, soziale Utopien und geopolitische Konflikte prägen.   The Plan and the Map verknüpft präzise Recherche mit poetischen Bildern: eine vielschichtige Filmchronik über denAufbau, Zusammenbruch und die Umnutzung von Infrastruktur.     Der Film Scenes from Trial and Error (2020) ist zugleich unser diesjähriger Beitrag zum exground filmfest.   #nassauischerkunstverein #wiesbaden #artopening #teklaaslanishvili

✦ 제19회 비바프 | 2025 선정작 | 국제경쟁 (5) (English in comments) ✦ The 19th BIVAF | Selection 2025 | International Competition (5) 1-2_테클라 아슬라니슈빌리, <산이 바다에게 말하다>, 2024, 2채널 비디오, 컬러, 흑백, 스테레오 사운드, 59분. 작가 제공. [작가 소개] 테클라 아슬라니슈빌리 @tekelson 테클라 아슬라니슈빌리는 베를린, 트빌리시, 빈을 오가며 활동하는 시각예술가이자 영화감독, 에세이스트이다. 현재 IFK 펠로우로 빈 미술아카데미 박사과정에 재학 중이며, 베를린예술대학교 PhD-in-Practice의 펠로우이다. 아슬라니슈빌리의 작업은 세계 각지에서 상영 및 전시되었으며, 주요 기관으로는 앤트워프 현대미술관, 베를린리셰 미술관, 뉴욕 스컬프처센터, 2023 타이베이 비엔날레, 제17회 부산국제비디오아트페스티발, 브뤼셀 빌스 현대미술센터, 암스테르담 아이 필름뮤지엄, 프랑크푸르트 시른 미술관, 2023 트랜스메디알레, 바르셀로나 루프 페스티벌 – 안토니 타피에스 재단, 노이에 베를리너 미술협회, 제14회 발틱트리엔날레, 트빌리시 건축비엔날레, 오버하우젠 단편영화제, 뮌스터 미술관 등이 있다. [작품 소개] <산이 바다에게 말하다> <산이 바다에게 말하다>는 캅카스 남부 지역의 강줄기를 따라, 산에서 흑해까지 이어지는 흐름 속에 흩어져 있는 사회적·생태적·물질적 서사와 역사를 재구성하는 실험 다큐멘터리이다. 작품은 시간적·정치적으로 서로 다른 맥락 속에서 수력 에너지 인프라가 문화와 과학 지식 생산, 주권 행사, 저항의 도구로 어떻게 활용되어 왔는지 탐구한다. 작품 속 이야기는 유럽연합과 조지아 간 협력 프로젝트로 이어진다. 이는 세계에서 가장 긴 해저 전력 케이블을 흑해에 설치해 러시아 화석연료 의존도를 줄이고, 녹색 에너지 전환을 가속하며 조지아를 전략적 에너지 허브로 탈바꿈시키려는 시도이다. 이 케이블 설치는 소비에트 시기와 이후 지역 사회의 반대로 중단되었던 수력발전소 건설을 부활시키는 계기가 된다. 작품은 특히 조지아 북서부의 사메그렐로–제모 스바네티 주에 주목한다. 이곳에서는 규제되지 않은 암호화폐 채굴이 기존의 에너지 시스템과 사회관계를 분열시키고 있으며, 댐은 생태 환경을 파괴하고 있다. 이러한 장면들은 인프라 시설의 재편과 함께 드러나는 충돌적이고 그림자 같은 현실들을 여실히 드러낸다. [리뷰] <산이 바다에게 말하다>는 조지아의 에너지 인프라에 얽힌 과거와 현재 속에서 변형되는 자연과 삶을 조명한다. 두 개의 화면은 과거와 현재의 풍경을 교차시키며, 공적 아카이브와 개인의 기록을 병치한다. 작품 속 목소리와 인터뷰는 에너지 발전을 둘러싼 제도적 권력, 지역 사회의 목소리, 자본과 노동의 현실이 중첩되는 지점을 드러내며, 삶과 기억, 그리고 저항과 연대의 서사가 이어진다. (강주영) 📌 테클라 아슬라니슈빌리 작가의 <산이 바다에게 말하다>는 공간 힘 2층에서 관람하실 수 있습니다. 상영 시간은 상영 시간표를 참고해 주세요.