Klara Källström
Senior Lecturer
The Film, Photography and Literary Composition UnitAbout Klara Källström
Klara Källström is a visual artist, Senior Lecturer in Photography at HDK-Valand, and a PhD candidate in Informatics whose work interrogates the intersections of documentary practice, investigative aesthetics, and media archaeology. Her artistic practice, frequently developed in collaboration with Thobias Fäldt, reactivates archival media to examine how visual material participates in processes of sense-making and the formation of prevailing narratives. This inquiry extends into the domain of algorithmic image production, including the ongoing workshop series Annotation Fever!, which brings archival material into dialogue with AI-generated imagery and explores how computational annotation practices shape the structuring, interpretation, and legibility of the visual archive as images shift with the systems that produce and read them.
Källström’s PhD research examines annotation, classification, and categorisation as socio-technical practices through which institutional categories take operational form. Focusing on visual data and digital archives within state and administrative contexts, it investigates how algorithmic systems are mobilised through claims of efficiency and objectivity, and how these deployments reshape governance, accountability, and power.
Källström and Fäldt are the founders of the publishing platform B-B-B-Books (2011) and the gallery project FG2 in Gothenburg (2018), both serving as sites for artistic inquiry. Their books are held in museum collections worldwide, including Tate (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the Hasselblad Foundation (Gothenburg), and LACMA (Los Angeles).
Their work has been exhibited widely at institutions including Camera Austria (Graz), Unseen (Amsterdam), the Hasselblad Foundation (Gothenburg), Bunkier Sztuki (Krakow Photomonth), Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest), Le Bal and Photo Saint Germain (Paris), LACMA (Los Angeles), Aperture Foundation (New York), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), CFF/Center for Photography, and Fotografiska (Stockholm and Shanghai).
Exhibitions (2026):
• Camera Austria, Graz (Austria)
• Fotografiska Shanghai (The Beijing Silvermine Archive)
Recent exhibitions:
• Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (Denmark)
• GIBCA Extended 2025, Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (Sweden)
• The Hole, New York City (US)
• Sandviken Konsthall (Sweden)
• Havremagasinet, Boden (Sweden)
• MLZ & Wiener Art Foundation, Trieste (Italy, 2024)
• Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg (Sweden, 2023–2024)