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).