Anushka Chkheidze

She released first tracks on the compilation “Sleepers Poets Scientists” curated by Natalie Beridze in January 2019, followed by her debut album “Halfie” in April 2020.

Her second album “Move 20-21” was created during the pandemic and addresses the absence of physical movement and interaction with other people, released in February 2021.

Immediately after a residency in Berlin as part of the Goethe-Nachwuchs and in collaboration with Popkultur Festival 2022, she began her two-year Master of Music Design program at HKU in Utrecht/NL.

Anushka Chkheidze continues to collaborate with choirs, resulting in a composition commission from the Swiss-Georgian festival Close Encounters for the highly regarded Gori Women’s Choir in Georgia.

Monheim Triennale has created a festival that wants to integrate the musical avant-garde in the everyday. With artists such as Anushka Chkheidze, who developed an installation for the orphaned garden of a daycare center for the sound art exhibition “The Sound” 2023. And now has returned to Monheim – to the new Triennale residence, where Anushka works on new pieces for choir and electronics.

In the newly renovated research center in Basel, Switzerland, she made field recordings as well as piano and choir recordings last year, leading to her upcoming album “Clean, Clear and White” to be released in 2024.

2023-2024 is marked by invitations to major cross-genre festivals such as Haldern Pop in Germany, Georgian Tkeshi Festival, the Laiks Dejot Festival in Riga. the Trans Musicales in Rennes, Europavox in Clermont Ferrand, Pop Kultur in Berlin and etc.