Rajkamal Kahlon

Rajkamal Kahlon is a Professor of Painting/Drawing at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg). Her studio is located in Rooms 224, 225, 226 Le, and 304 LeA. She leads a research-based practice at the intersection of visuality, violence, and colonial histories, transforming archival materials (e.g., anthropology texts, military reports) through painting as a form of radical care and rehabilitation.

Kahlon’s work critically engages with colonial archives, overlaying them with contemporary imagery and portraiture to expose racist subtexts and objectification. She explores themes such as decolonial aesthetics, historical trauma, and embodied resistance. Her pedagogy emphasizes critical engagement with institutional violence, as highlighted in her teaching text You Said it Wouldn't Hurt: Embodied Pedagogy.

Her solo exhibition And Still I Rise (2023) showcased her decolonial critique, described as confronting 'the tyrant’s need for broken souls' (Susanne Leeb). No scientific awards or supervised students are explicitly listed in the provided text.