Jeannette Ehlers
b. 1973, Denmark
lives in Copenhagen, Denmark
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’s work often brings about decolonial hauntings and disruptions. 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, honoring 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 has exhibited internationally in places like Momenta Biennial, Montreal, CA; MCA, Chicago, US; Centre Pompidou-Metz, FR; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK; MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, US; AGO, Toronto, CA, among more and was shortlisted to create a national monument to The Windrush Generation at London Waterloo Station in 2022 as well as for the decolonial monument in Braunschweig Germany 2022/2023. She is the co-creator of the public sculpture project I Am Queen Mary, 2018.
Photo: Lars Gundersen
