Anna Chkolnikova (born 1976 in Minsk, Belarus) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at art academies in Minsk and Düsseldorf under Jannis Kounellis. Following a period of study at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, she completed her Master of Fine Arts at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2004. Since then, she has regularly exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk and the Galeria Arsenał in Bialystok, all in Poland; the Izolyatsia platform for cultural initiatives in Kyiv, Ukraine; and the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania. After taking time out to raise her children, Chkolnikova resumed her artistic practice in 2020. In early summer 2025, she won a public art competition for the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, which she will realise.