Anna Ådahl is a visual artist and researcher whose work explores how collective behavior is shaped, staged, and governed in contemporary society. For more than a decade, questions around crowds, control, and shared agency have been central to her practice.
Ådahl works in various mediums such as film, installation, prints and performance. She uses the editing tools of assemblage and montage where found footage meets newly produced images and materials. Her installations use artworks in various mediums as props in spatial narratives where the body is used as reference and an investigative tool.
The notion and politics of crowds has been a central theme in her artistic practice for over a decade. Her fine art practice-based research, Inside the Postdigital Crowds (2022), at the Royal College of Art in London addressed the aesthetics and politics of the digital conditions in which contemporary crowds are operated and governed. From 2022–2025 she conducted a postdoc and ran a practice-led fine art research project, in collaboration with Stefan Jonsson. The project titled Collective Agency in an Era of Authoritarian Automation and was funded by the Swedish Research Council and based at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society at Linköping University, in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Ådahl is currently an affiliated researcher and artist across these institutions.
Her work has been shown at Marabouparken Art Foundation, Stockholm; Pylon Lab, Dresden; Impakt, Utrecht; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm (where it is part of the collection); LIAF, Norway; CCA Derry-Londonderry amongst others.