Jenny Källman

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Björkholmen Gallery
Rödbodtorget 2
111 52 Stockholm, Sweden
+46 733125573
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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

SVD

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

Dagens Nyheter 2016

Works Of Jenny Källman 2002–08

She´s here 2012

Livraison N°4 Open Landscapes — Closed Rooms

Rodeo 2013

Plaza 2012

Dagens Nyheter 2011, text by Jessica Kempe

Dagens Nyheter

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