portrait of girl

Ikram Abdulkadir, Salma cadeey, 2018 Photo: Courtesy the artist

Ikram Abdulkadir

Soft Focus

2.5 – 27.9 2026

Malmö

The collection

Opens in 145 days

Photographer Ikram Abdulkadir (born 1995) has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. In the upper galleries, her work and that of Deborah Turbeville are presented in separate exhibitions, yet in dialogue with one another.

Although there is, in some cases, a difference of up to fifty years between the works in the two exhibitions, the artists are united in their work with fashion and portrait photography. Both have developed an expression where mainly female subjects appear in images characterised by melancholy and timelessness.

Ikram Abdulkadir belongs to a younger generation that uses lens-based methods and moves freely between several digital platforms, between still and moving images, between exhibition formats and different types of publications. In upper secondary school, she began publishing her photos on the account “ikramianism”, which quickly led to interested followers and several commissions in fashion and portrait photography. Her motifs often revolved – and still do – around familiar places, frequently in her hometown of Malmö, and people close to her. Abdulkadir is represented in the Moderna Museet Collection.

Curator: Anna Tellgren

The exhibition is shown at Floor 2

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