COPENHAGEN.- Galleri Nicolai Wallner announced the representation of Carola Grahn.

Carola Grahn (b. 1982, Jåhkåmåhkke, Sæpmie; based in Lund, Sweden) is a conceptual artist whose practice primarily unfolds through large scale projects including sculpture, installation, performances and the materialization of text and sound. Her work examines structures of power and politics, with particular attention to how these forces are embedded in everyday life. Interested in our relationships to nature, to each other and to larger narratives, Grahn often tells universal stories from a personal lens.

Formally, Grahn’s work often draws on restrained sculptural strategies that recall figures such as Donald Judd and Nancy Holt, while simultaneously grounding itself in vernacular materials drawn from Sami culture and the north. This convergence foregrounds alternative knowledge systems and perspectives as vital modes of approaching the world rather than as historical or ethnographic remnants. Grahn’s use of material serves to question dominant separations between the human and the ecological, and to evoke alternative models of relationality, responsibility, and coexistence.

Grahn received her MFA from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, in 2013. She has presented solo exhibitions at Liljevalchs Konsthall (SE), Wanås Konst (SE), and Röda Sten Konsthall (SE), and has exhibited at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) (US), Moderna Museet (SE), Gammel Strand (DK), Buffalo AKG Art Museum (US), Helsinki Art Biennial (FI), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Malmö Konsthall (SE), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), PATAKA ART + MUSEUM (NZ), and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CA), among others. Grahn was awarded the Asmunder and Lizzie Arles Sculptor Prize in 2021, and her work is included in the collections of Sámi Kunstmagasin (NO), Moderna Museet (SE), the Public Art Agency of Sweden (SE), Mercedes-Benz Art Collection (DE), and Göteborg Konst (SE), among others.

Galleri Nicolai Wallner shared that the work 'Luhkietjijhtje nejpieh (Seventeen Knives) (2025)', currently on view for the group exhibition 'Nordic Threads' at the gallery, has been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Finland), as part of the museum's permanent collection.

The gallery will be presenting Carola Grahn's work at Market Art Fair in Stockholm this April and her first solo exhibition with the gallery in 2027.