Jeanette Ehlers, DK/TT

Jeannette Ehlers is a Danish-Trinidadian visual artist educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (2006). Her interdisciplinary practice spans photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance.

Through decolonial strategies of haunting, disruption and reimagining, Ehlers’ work insists on both empowerment and healing, honouring legacies of resistance within the African diaspora. She merges the historical, the collective and the rebellious with the familial, the bodily and the poetic that history is not in the past.

Among others, Ehlers has exhibited at ICA, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Pérez ArtMuseum, Miami; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD); The Danish National Gallery (SMK), Copenhagen; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Reykjavik Art Museum;International Slavery Museum, Liverpool; and Ford Foundation Gallery, New York. She is the co-creator of the public sculpture I Am Queen Mary (2018), the first monument in Denmark to address the legacies of colonialism. She was shortlisted to create a national monument to The Windrush Generation at London Waterloo Station (2021) and a decolonial monument in Braunschweig,Germany (2023).