artist

Annais Karenin

they have never been plants, 2024, courtesy of Towada Art Center
Photo:Tomita Ryohei

things named [things], 2023
Photo:Naoki Takehisa

(un)visual latency, 2024
Photo:Frank Kleinbach

photo by Marisa Srijunpleang

Annais Karenin

Born in 1993 in Brazil, live in Shizuoka, Japan
PhD in Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil(2024)

Born in Brazil and based in Japan. Anais-karenin situates her practice in the intimate engagement with plants, incorporating border thinking, pre-colonial knowledge systems, and mythology. She conducts research and fieldwork across various fields, reflecting on colonialism, language, territory, and science. Her artworks capture plants-stones-things in a new way through comprehensive expressive methods that deal with the cultivation of plant systems, installation, sound, scent, and image, appealing to a sensory and critical approach

Major Exhibitions

Becoming Wild, Towada Art Center, Aomori, 2024
Things named [things], The 5th Floor, Tokyo, 2023
Mediate Plants, Gallery Kobo Chika (Yebizo Meets / Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023), Tokyo, 2023

Major Awards

Local Creator Residency Program, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), Tokyo, 2025
Artist-in-Residence, SAM Residencies, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 2025
Grant Recipient, ATAMI ART GRANT 2024, Shizuoka, 2024
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