Stalke Galleri presented Jeannette Ehlers in 2003 with the solo exhibition "Double Me" in Stalke  Project Room for young artist. The video work, now part of the Stalke Collection, marked the beginning of an ongoing collaboration, with Ehlers later participating in several group exhibitions at the gallery.

Jeannette Ehlers (born 1973 in Holstebro) is a Danish-Trinidadian artist based in Copenhagen. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. Her practice includes video, photography, performance, installation and sculpture, and is consistently focused on issues of race, colonial history and Black memory in a Danish context.

She is internationally known for co-creating the public sculpture I Am Queen Mary(2018, with La Vaughn Belle), the first statue of a Black woman in Denmark and a significant decolonial gesture in the public space.

In recent years, she has presented major solo exhibitions:

Archives in the Tongue: A Litany of Freedoms, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2022

Crossing Waters: Ripples of Tomorrow, Le Bicolore / Maison du Danemark, Paris, 2024

Even After, 2112, Copenhagen, 2025

She also creates performative works such as We’re Magic. We’re Real #3 (These Walls), most recently performed at Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2024. In this piece, long braided extensions connect performers to the museum’s facade, forming a poetic link between body, space and colonial history.

Ehlers’ work combines thorough historical research with strong visual and physical expression. Her practice insists on confronting Denmark’s colonial legacy in the present.

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