Karin Ström Lehander

Karin Ström Lehander is a PhD candidate at Åbo Akademi, where she is researching Tyra Kleen’s art and spiritual search. Her previous research resulted in her master’s thesis entitled ‘I Tyra Kleens fotspår – en studie om konstnärens tid i Rom och Paris 1892–1908’ and a chapter on Kleen in the reference work Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon and in Rebeller och Mademoiseller, Emma Toll, Tyra Kleen och Märta Rudbeck (2021).
Ström Lehander curated works by Tyra Kleen for the exhibition Två konstnärskap i vår tids ljus at the Museum of Östergötland and appeared in Konsthistorier (2018), a television series about pioneering female artists on SVT. Her work was featured in the Swedish Association of University Teachers and Researchers’ magazine Universitetsläraren (2017). She also holds a law degree.