jeannette ehlers

Graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Denmark in 2006.

Chair of The Danish Arts Foundation Grant Committee for the Visual Art 2020–2023

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 brings about decolonial hauntings and disruptions, and she 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. 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.”

She has exhibited internationally and was shortlisted to create a national monument to The Windrush Generation at London Waterloo Station 2021 as well as a decolonial monument in Braunschweig Germany 2023.

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