11.11.2025 – 22.02.2026
Institut suédois Paris
Björkholmen Gallery
Rödbodtorget 2
111 52 Stockholm, Sweden
+46 733125573
info(at)bjorkholmengallery.com
Jenny Källman is educated at the university of Film and Photography in Gothenburg and The University College of Art, Craft and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm where she took her master of fine arts in 2002.
Källman´s work oscillates between documentary and staged photography. Her work has been described as stills from a film, with her imagery in closely linked to the phantasies of the viewer. A recurring theme in Källman´s work is the vulnerability of young people in strange new worlds, in open or closed spaces. In her earlier work, she has also examined how people behave and interact in these spaces.
Her early work document the rituals and strictly set rules of the urban youth. “Through a thin haze, as if in a slowly dissipating dream, young women are caught up in situations only the initiated know the full meaning of – duels, gang wars, social community interactions, assaults. In her later wirk she has shown herself to be more drawn to the abstract. She makes photographs of her studio, of night time streets, fragments of different material, common or trivial things transformed by different light settings, reflections, mirror images. Or in the words of one commentator: “These [images) are no longer ´moments´and ´places´, they are events and spaces. The images become placeless and magical.”
Jenny Källman is represented at The Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and in many other institutions and private collections. Among many group exhibitions, she has exhibited her work at the show “The Visible” at Artipelag (2014) and at “Golden Sunset” at the Museum of Modern art in Stockholm (2017-2018) with among others fellow photographers Miriam Bäckström, Tova Mozard and Julia Peirone.
In 2016, Källman´s latest book The Rectangle’s Sharp Stare (Art and Theory) was shortlisted for the Sweidsh Photographers Union´s prize for best Swedish book of photography.
Källman is born 1973,lives and works in Stockholm
1998-2002 Konstfack, University College of Art, Craft and Design,Stockholm, Sweden (MFA)
1994–1997 University of Film and Photography, Gothenburg, Sweden (BFA)
Casino, Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm 2018
Shutter, David Risley Gallery, Köpenhamn 2016
Lounge, Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm 2015
Surveillance, Crystal, Stockholm 2012
Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico City 2011
Caps Light, Crystal Contemporary Art, Stockholm 2011
Borlänge Konsthall, Borlänge 2010
David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2009
Instantanés, Institut Suédois, Paris, France 2009
In My Tree, Crystal Palace, Stockholm 2008
Four Seasons, (Xposeptember) Hotell Diplomat, Stockholm 2006
White Tiger, AK28, Stockholm 2006
Galleri 54, Göteborg 2005
Velvet Ropes, David Risley Gallery, Köpenhamn 2018
So Real, Really So, Galleri Thomassen, Göteborg 2018
In The Pines-Slight Return,David Risley Gallery, Köpenhamn 2017
Golden Sunset, Moderna Museet Stockholm 2017
Winter Show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner 2016
On the Immense and the Numberless, David Risley Gallery, Köpenhamn 2016
Fryspunkt, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm 2016
Chart art fair, Köpenhamn 2016
De synliga, Artipelag Konsthall, Stockholm 2014
Voyage, Cercle Suédois, Paris 2014
Grupputställning, Crystal, Stockholm 2014
She´s here, Fotogalleriet, Oslo 2013
Phantasma, Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsingfors 2013
She´s in the Picture, CFF, Stockholm 2011
Under yta, över tid, Konsthallen i Varberg 2011
Sometimes I wish I could just disappear, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen 2011
Das Swedische Model, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Berlin 2010
Svensk Fotografi på 00-talet, Falkenbergs Museum, Falkenberg 2010
Market Art Fair, Stockholm 2010
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles 2010
Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam 2010
Zoo Art Enterprises, London 2009Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2009
War Within, Reinier van Ewijk Projects , Amsterdam 2008
I´d Never Willing Do Tou Harm, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York 2008
Top Of The World, Crystal Palace, Stockholm 2007
Universe Will Be Very Sunny Tomorrow, Roger Björkholmen, Stockholm 2007
Pictures Of You, ALP/Peter Bergman, Stockholm 2006
Spiralhuset, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm 2006
Instabilt, Kulturhuset, Stockholm 2004
Ny svensk fotografi, Hasselbladcenter, Göteborgs Konstmuseum 2004
Shilling Banco, After shopping, Kulturhuset, Stockholm 200
Set 2, Modern Talking, Enkehuset, Stockholm 2002
Pendang, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Stockholm 2002
IASPIS, residence grant in Stockholm 2016
Nominerad till årets fotobok 2015
Konstnärsnämndens 2-åriga arbetsstipendium 2013
Längmanska kuturfonden 2015
Konstnärsnämdens projektbidrag 2013
Konstnärsnämndens 2-åriga arbetsstipendium 2007
Stockholms stads Kulturstipendium 2005
Konstnärsnämndens 1-åriga arbetsstipendium 2004
IASPIS, newly graduated residence grants 2003
BUS bildkonstnärernas upphovsrätts fond 2003
Moderna Museet Stockholm
Statens konstråd
Hasselblad Foundation
Göteborgs Konstmuseum
Västra Götaland Region
Stockholms läns landsting
Landstinget Gävleborg
https://frieze.com/article/immense-and-numberless
The Rectangle´s Sharp Stare, art&theory publishing 2015
Swedish contemporary photography, art&theory publishing 2013
The Visible, Contemporary swedish photography 2014
Surveillance, art&theory publishing 2013
UNION
Works Of Jenny Källman 2002–08
Livraison N°4 Open Landscapes — Closed Rooms
Rodeo 2013
Plaza 2012
Dagens Nyheter 2011, text by Jessica Kempe
Svenska Dagbladet 2013, text by Joanna Persman
Aftonbladet 2011, text by Malena Rydell
Konsten 2011, text by Jacob Kimvall
Konstnärer och dess ateljéer, 2012 by Anette Mörner and Anne Nyblaeus, text by Bo Madestrand
Edit revue 2009, Paris