Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent whose practice takes shape experimentally across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. She graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006.

Ehlers’ work often makes use of self-representation and image manipulation to bring about decolonial hauntings and disruptions. These manifestations attend to the material and affective afterlives of Denmark’s colonial impact in the Caribbean and participation in the Transatlantic Slave Trade—realities that have all too often been rendered forgettable by dominant history-writing. In the words of author Lesley-Ann Brown, “Ehlers reminds all who participate in or gaze at her work that history is not in the past.”

Ehlers insists on the possibility for empowerment and healing in her art, honouring legacies of resistance in the African diaspora. She merges the historical, the collective and the rebellious with the familial, the bodily and the poetic.

She’s currently a practice-based PhD- fellow at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Copenhagen University (2025-2028)

She has exhibited internationally and was shortlisted to create a national monument to The Windrush Generation at London Waterloo Station 2022 as well as for the decolonial monument in Braunschweig Germany 2022/2023. She is a member of The Lockward Collective who was selected to do The Decolonial Memorial EarthNest in Global Village Berlin in the fall of 2024.

She is the co-creator of the public sculpture project I Am Queen Mary, 2018

Selected Exhibitions:

Prospect 6 in New Orleans/ Denver US, the 15th Havana Biennial, CU* Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk DK* MAAT Lisbon,PT * MIA, Minneapolis, US* MCA, Chicago,US *Centre Pompidou- Metz, FR *Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen,DK * MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, US, * AGO, Toronto, Canada * SMK- The Danish National Gallery, Copenhagen, DK ,*Nuuk Art Museum, Greenland *Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen,DK *  Berliner Herbstsalon, Berlin , D * Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, NO * Ford Foundation Gallery, NYC,US* LACE, LA,US* SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, D * The Finnish Museum Photography, Helsinki, FI * Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, CN * CareOf, Milan IT * Frost Art Museum, Miami, US  * CAMP, Copenhagen, DK * Wallach Art Gallery, NYC,USA * AROS, Aarhus, DK * MOLAA, Los Angeles, USA * The Black Diamond, Copenhagen, DK*  International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK  *  21c Museum Hotels, Louisville, Kentucky, US  *  Reykjavik Art Museum, IS* Autograph ABP, Rivington Place, London,UK * UVP on Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, USA * Brundyn+ gallery, Cape Town SA * Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen,DK * LMAKprojects, NYC,USA *  Dak’Art, Dakar, Senegal * Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA * Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada *  Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, Germany * Museo Del Barrio, New York, USA * 

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