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Klara Källström

Doctoral Student

Department of Applied IT, div Informatics
Mail
klara.kallstrom@gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 7B (Natrium)
41390 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 470
405 30 Göteborg

Senior Lecturer

The Film, Photography and Literary Composition Unit
Mail
klara.kallstrom@gu.se
Visiting address
Storgatan 43
Göteborg
Postal address
Box 131
40530 Göteborg

About Klara Källström

Klara Källström is a visual artist, Senior Lecturer in Photography at HDK-Valand, and a PhD candidate in Informatics at the University of Gothenburg. Her artistic research moves between documentary and computational practices, examining how images and archives shape processes of sense-making and how narratives take form. Her work extends into algorithmic image production, including the ongoing workshop series Annotation Fever!, which explores AI-generated imagery and computational annotation.

Källström’s PhD research examines annotation and classification as socio-technical practices through which institutional categories take operational form. Focusing on visual data and digital archives, she investigates how algorithmic systems reshape relations between seeing and knowing and raise questions of governance, accountability and power.

Källström’s artistic practice is frequently developed in collaboration with artist Thobias Fäldt. Together they founded the publishing platform B-B-B-Books (2011) and the gallery project FG2 (2018). 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 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 and Shanghai).

Exhibitions (2026):

• Future Archives / Archive Futures, rk – Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany, 2026 (Oct 8 – Dec 17)

• Annotation Fever! (The Nervous System), MLZ & Wiener Art Foundation, Trieste, Italy, 2026 (Sept 10 – Sept 13)

• Beijing Silvermine: Archive Anthology, Fotografiska, Shanghai, China, 2026 (June 19 – Oct 18)

• On This Day / Annotation Fever!, Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio, Bologna, Italy, 2026 – Solo Show (May 22 – May 29)

• Tinyvices Archive, Urban Research, Kyoto, Japan, 2026 (April 18 – May 17)

• Tinyvices Archive, SO1 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2026 (April 11 – April 19)

• Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt – The Space Between, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria, 2025/26 – Solo Show (Dec 6 – Feb 15)

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)