Anna Manankina. Publicity photo.
Anna Manankina has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025 in collaboration with NAIA Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association (Germany).
Anna Manankina is an Ukrainian interdisciplinary media artist based in Karlsruhe, Germany, working in the field of digital technologies with video, VR and AR, installation, AI, 3D-animation with an emphasis on posthumanism and feminist practice. In her artistic statements, she covers a wide range of issues: from geopolitical situations and power structures to purely intimate spheres of life, addresses the topic of violence and gender identity, the position of women in artistic and social contexts.
Anna Manankina. Gardening State, 2025. Visualization.
The “Gardening State” is an interactive installation that will be created as part of the residency, about re-growth, symbiotic relationships, and the digital gardening tools that we use to shape our common future. Firstly, this project consists of 3D printed sculptures, based on speculative species of plants and accompanying motion-reactive audio. While hoping for wilderness and sprouting in the gardens once destroyed, the artist still acknowledges that these gardens will never be like they once were. For instance, hundreds of thousands of square meters of Ukrainian soil are contaminated with hazardous substances and an additional 14 million square meters of land are polluted with remnants of destroyed military objects and ammunition. The purpose is to be proof of our existence, an echo of history and events, that are unfolding on Ukrainian soil.