ISSUES

Klara skilfully employs methods used in prop-making to create a fake archaeology. Artefacts made from plaster and spray paints are shown alongside "people", visiting us from a past but also perhaps from a future. The representations portray an ancient and bemusing civilisation by means of presenting finds from excavated fictitious sites named Ul'd Arbas or Valdaesti Umdar.

Klara Zetterholm b. 1991, lives and works in Stockholm. She graduated from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm in 2022, her MFA exhibition was awarded with a grant from the Bonnier foundation.

Recent exhibitions and presentations include Skulpturprojekte 2, Beau Travail, Stockholm (2025); Independent Art Fair, New York City, with Suprainfinit (2025); Kuu Ma, Margot Samel, New York City, New York (2025); Only Ghosts Move Forward, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest (2025); Downtown Issues III at ISSUES, Stockholm (2025); Umbra, inter.pblc, Copenhagen (2024); Felix Art Fair, with Suprainfinit, Los Angeles (2024); Discoveries from Valdaesti Umdar, ISSUES (2023); Downtown Issues II at ISSUES, Stockholm (2023); Liste Art Fair, Basel, with Suprainfinit (2023); Collected Fragments at Thomassen gallery, Gothenburg (2023); The simple life, the still.)) at Suprainfinit, Budapest (2023); Potpourri at ISSUES, Stockholm (2022); Civilization and its' Discontents at Odenplan’s subway station in association with Konstväxlingar and Region Stockholm (2023); Inside/Outside at Coulisse gallery, Stockholm (2022); Downtown Issues at ISSUES, Stockholm (2021) and Survival of the fittest at Accelerator, Stockholm (2020).

Klara's work is represented in collections such as Norrköpings konstmuseum, Statens Konstråd, Gullringsbo Konstsamling, Ersta Diakoni and numerous Swedish and international private collections.

Recession Core, (review) Arrhenius Hagdahl, Nora. Kunstkritikk, 16/05/2025

Vetenskap och myt förvandlas till konst i Klara Zetterholms händer (interview), Edwards, Malin. SEB Private Wealth magazine, 08/04/2025