Carla Åhlander

 

 

 

Carla Åhlander (b.1966, Lund, Sweden) often works through photographic series, using this medium to provoke inquisitive looking. Exploring structures of power as well as those that appear as trivial, Carla’s quiet photos give new stresses to her subject matter. In doing so they reveal, as through a soft haze, memories and histories occluded by surface appearances.

 

Carla studied art history, performance and photography in Sweden, Italy and Denmark between 1985 and 1994. Now living and working in Berlin (Germany), Carla teaches Photography at Bard College Berlin and at the Berlin University of the Arts.

 

Select exhibitions include Carla Åhlander & Aaron Amar Bhamra: Holding Places, Belmacz, London, UK (2024); The Palliative Turn, KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen, Germany (2022); Carla Åhlander & Camilla Løw, Belmacz, London, UK (2022); Art in Dream, HilbertRaum, Berlin (2021); Carla Åhlander & Pauline Kraneis: Geister, SCOTTY, Berlin, Germany (2021).

Artworks

  • Untitled (Curtain) from My Retrotopia

    Carla Åhlander

    Untitled (Curtain) from My Retrotopia, 2022

    Giclée print of a scanned 35 mm negative
    40 x 60 cm

  • Construction of a Memory

    Construction of a Memory, 2024

    Giclée print of a scanned 35 mm negative
    40 x 60 cm

  • Still lifes

    Carla Åhlander

    Still lifes, 2015

    series of 8 photos

  • Still lifes

    Carla Åhlander

    Still lifes, 2015

    series of 8 photos

  • Every Possible Tone

    Carla Åhlander

    Every Possible Tone, 2012

    enlargement of entire 135 mm contact print, giclée print on adhesive vinyl
    200 x 150 cm

  • Every Possible Tone (detail)

    Carla Åhlander

    Every Possible Tone (detail), 2012

  • Auflösung II

    Auflösung II, 2013

    silver gelatine print on baryta paper
    30 x 40 cm

  • Auflösung

    Auflösung, 2013

    silver gelatine prints on baryta paper
    14 x 22,5 cm

  • The outside stairs and woman smoking

    Carla Åhlander

    The outside stairs and woman smoking, 2018

    pigment print photo
    29.7 x 42 cm

  • Parallel World,

    Carla Åhlander

    Parallel World,, 2022

    photo pigment print on Hahnemühle photo rag
    20 x 30 cm

  • Parallel World

    Carla Åhlander

    Parallel World, 2022

    photo pigment print on Hahnemühle photo rag
    20 x 30 cm

  • Parallel World

    Carla Åhlander

    Parallel World, 2022

    photo pigment print on Hahnemühle photo rag
    20 x 30 cm

  • Parallel World

    Installation View

  • Perspectives (After Work)

    Installation View

  • Perspectives (After Work)

    Carla Åhlander

    Perspectives (After Work), 2013/14

    extracts of Berlin diaries, collected and photographed for 8 billboards in subway station Schwartzkopffstraße
    each 2 x 3 m

  • Perspectives (After Work)

    Installation View

  • My Retrotopia

    Carla Åhlander

    My Retrotopia, 2022

    set of 35mm black and white negative film (work-in-progress)

  • Untitled (the former Stasi building, Berlin)

    Carla Åhlander

    Untitled (the former Stasi building, Berlin), 2005

    photographs of Stasi office and interrogation rooms for 16 billboards
    2 x 3 m

  • Carla Åhlander

    image from stasi series

    photo print

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