She adopts what she calls "a precarious assemblage" approach, collaborating extensively with diverse materials and groups, particularly through south-south collaborations as a way of redistributing global North resources. Ehrenstein’s work spans various printing methodologies combined with digital and physical painting, while sculptural forms of photography emerge in textile assemblages. Her art combines generative AI, 3D printing, and multiscreen or 360° video installations with ceramics, silicone, and epoxy sculptures.

Growing up between Germany and Albania, with her father's denied asylum and the family's relocation to Tirana profoundly shaping her perspective on migration and identity, her diverse Albanian, Turkish, Kosovar, and Egyptian heritage informs her interest in cultural hybridity and creolization in contemporary society.

Her practice explores concepts of plasticity, mythology, Islamic and proto-science fiction, as well as critical theory and popular culture, examining how phenomena like generalization, exotification, or patronizing perspectives on certain cultural groups are embodied and transformed into corporeal qualities in analogue or virtual geographies, and how photographic legacies meander through virtual and physical realities.

Ehrenstein studied photography and pursued postgraduate studies in media arts in Germany, later expanding her curatorial training at the University of Malta and Lagos Biennial in Nigeria. In addition to her professorship at HGB Leipzig, she also teaches at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Her work is represented by KOW and Office Impart in Berlin. A full CV is available upon request.