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. Her practice attends to how images take form across historical material and present contingencies, working with archival and widely circulated media images that are continually revisited and reconfigured, forming an ongoing working archive where temporal and spatial disjunctions remain in play.
Through the reactivation of found and produced images, in long-term collaboration with artist Thobias Fäldt, the work examines how photography operates across different contexts and moments. Engaging documentary practices, investigative aesthetics, and media archaeology, it moves through specific historical conjunctures while remaining attentive to their conditions of circulation, bringing forward what tends to remain peripheral, where images register uncertainty and other accounts begin to take shape.
The ongoing workshop series Annotation Fever! brings archival material into dialogue with AI-generated imagery, extending these concerns into algorithmic image cultures. Here, annotation practices become part of how images are structured and interpreted, as images continue to 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, the project 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 part of museum collections worldwide, including Tate (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Hasselblad Foundation (Gothenburg), LACMA (Los Angeles).
Their works have been exhibited internationally at 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).
Exhibitions (2026):
• Camera Austria, Graz (Austria)
• Fotografiska Shanghai (The Beijing Silvermine Archive)
Recent exhibitions:
• Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (Denmark)
• GIBCA Extended 2025, the 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 (2024 + 2023)