Charlotta Öberg
Bio
Charlotta Öberg (she/her) born 1987 in Sweden, is an artist and performer living and working in Vienna. She is co-organiser of Hotellhänget, a queer/lesbian club that gathers every fifth week in Stockholm. She is currently completing her MA from the Akademie der bildenden Künste started under Carola Dertnig in the Performance class and now Iman Issa at Sculpture and Space Strategies . She trained as a pattern maker and seamstress at Stockholms Tillskäraradkademi, and received her qualification as a milliner at Göteborgs Tillskärarakdemi. In her performances, texts, sculptures and installations, she deals with themes such as health, mortality, care, identity, existence, and norms. In ”Stand Up For Cancer” for example, she delivers uncensored error-rotic cancer realities, and I am waiting for me is a performance inspired by the computer game ”The Sims”, chronic illness and the gloom of waiting. Her performative approach that includes interactive elements and collaborations stems from her commitment to care and community through the sharing of experiences between people.
Recent exhibitions and performances in Austria in Linz at: Shiesshalle; Vienna at: Ateliertheater, Belvedere 21, die Laube, Exhibit Studio, PCCC*, Kollektiv Zirkusgasse, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Volkskundemuseum, Téte-A-Téte; Sweden in Glimåkra at: Svenska Vävstolsmuseet; Göteborg at: 13festivalen, Galleri Monitor; Stockholm at: Detroit Gallery, Konsthall C, Stand Up Yours, Queernick; Vittsjö at: Boalt Barn, Visseltofta at: Skörde- och Hantverksrunda; Thailand in Bangkok at: Galerie Oasis.
Photo (c) eSeL.at Joanna Pianka
EDUCATION
2017— Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2017 - 2018, Gerlesborgsskolan Stockholm, Fine Arts
2017 Stockholm University, Postcolonial Perspective on Audiovisual Media and Performance Studies
2012 - 2014, Göteborgs Tillskärarakademi, Miliner
2009 - 2011, Stockholms Tillskärarakademi, Pattern Making and Sewing and DigitalPattern Making
PERFORMANCES
Performance a mouth open without words - the becoming of forage, EG48 (2025)
Reading Mask mask death death I am still alive, Alles Raus, ZAK, Téte-A-Téte, Wien
Workshop fUn WiTh WiGs! Put a wig on it! Alles Wigs!, ZAK, Téte-A-Téte, Wien
Stand Up, Stand Up Yours, Reimersholme Hotel, Stockholm (2024)
Stand Up, PCCC*´s OPEN MICCC*, Badeschiff, Wien (2024)
Performance, Stand Up For Cancer, Steinsaalstage, Wien (2024)
Performance, I am waiting for me, die Laube inauguration, Wien (2023)
Performance, Barbie Yoga Teacher, qujOchÖ x WERISTdiCHTER?, Schiesshalle, Linz (2023)
Performance, I am waiting for me, Exhibit Studio, Wien (2023)
Performance, I am waiting for me, Kollektiv Zirkusgasse, Wien (2023)
Performance, I Will Last For A Lifestyle by Barbie Yoga Teacher at 13festivalen, Gothenburg (2023)
Performance, I am waiting for me, 13festivalen, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg (2023)
Performance, I am waiting for me, Belvedere 21, Wien (2022)
Performance, I am waiting for me, Innenhof 2 Benefiz Ukraine, Wien (2022)
Performance, I Will Last For A Lifestyle by Barbie Yoga Teacher at Queernick, Stockholm (2020)
Performance, Barbie Yoga Teacher, Flat concert 2, curated by Barbara Neu and Lena Schwinshandl, Wien (2019)
Performance, Barbie Yoga Teacher, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm (2018)
Performance, Barbie Yoga Teacher, Teater Tribunalen, theatre off space, Stockholm (2018)
Performance, Barbie Yoga Teacher, Mossutställningar, Stockholm (2018)
COLLABORATIONS
Performance, Universal Waschgang, together with Waschsalong Records, Ateliertheater, Wien (2023)
GASH N GAS ceramics for Sorry I Love You, Bar, in group exhibition "New Dates – New Bar" at Kollektiv Zirkusgasse, Wien (2023)
Happy birthday crown and styling for video, Breeder or Sucker; The TV Show, by Charlotte GASH, Wien (2023)
Costume with Lan Rex for their performance, Hyperreality, Wien (2022)
CD, War On Christmas, Booze on Boobs Choir, Wien (2021)
Performance,LOOK AT THIS STUFF ISN‘T IT NEAT? WOULDN‘T YOU THINK THIS COLLECTION‘S COMPLETE?, with Kenneth Constance Loe, Aquarium of the Sculpture Studios at the Academy of Fine Arts, Wien (2021)
Durational Performance Aiming for being a guest, with Eva Sommer, Shillerplatz (2021)
Collage ,Free on feet part 2 with Hedda Bauer for publication "Ripples" (2020)
Video, Gash and Gas Summer Moderatomsh with Charlotte Gash, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien (2020)
Durational Performance spoilerroom, with Katharina M. Grabner, Academy of Fine Arts, Wien (2020)
Exhibiting Sorry I Love You, Bar, Collage Bar Installation with Charlotte Gash, Volkskundemuseum, Wien (2019)
Exhibiting Banal, Interactive installation with Eva Sommer, Academy of Fine Arts, Wien (2019)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Exhibiting wigs from Workshop and Castmasks at "Alles Raus", ZAK, Téte-A-Téte, Wien (2024)
Exhibiting Mother cast, Castmask 1, Castmask 2, Into Alterity_ void I gap I hole, Exhibit Studio, Wien (2024)
Exhibiting and performing at "New Dates – New Bar" in Kollektiv Zirkusgasse, Wien (2023)
Installation Translations, with Phoenixe Nievera exhibited in group exhibition Exchange Rate at Galerie Oasis, Bangkok (2022)
Exhibiting soundpiece In memoria uterus 1987-2020, Academy of Fine Arts, Wien (2022)
Group Exhibition, with In Each Others Company atQUEER COHESION, Detroit Gallery, Stockholm, (2021)
Group Exhibition, The Path, Svenska Vävstolsmuseet, Glimåkra, Sweden (2020)
Group Exhibition, curated by Marika Wachtmeister at Skörde- och Hantverksrunda i Visseltofta 2020 (Visseltofta Harvesting- and crafts round tour) in Boalt Barn, Boalt, Sweden (2020)
Exhibiting Spoon - Me and The Making of Soft Anuses at Labor, group exhibition about sex work and queerness by Tove Pils, Galleri Monitor, Gothenburg (2019)
Exhibiting textile sculpture The Real Softwear 2, Gallery Helle Knudsen, Stockholm (2018)
PERFORMER IN
Performing for Charlotte Gash's The Sound Of Losers at Tanzquartier, Wien (2024)
Performing IN GASH’S REVENGE PLAYS for Charlotte Gash's at Über das Neue, Belvedere21, Wien (2023)
Acting Charlotte Gash in Studio visit with Charlotte Gash, Kunsthalle Wien (2023)
Acting in Breeder or Sucker; Behind the Scenes, by Charlotte GASH, Wien (2023)
Acting in Breeder or Sucker; The TV Show Episode 3, by Charlotte GASH, Wien (2023)
Performing in GASH’S REVENGE PLAYS for Charlotte Gash's at Kaleidoskop filmfestival, Karlsplatz, Wien (2023)
Performing in Charlotte Gash's Tunnel of Inclusion at Kunsthalle Karlsplatz, Wien (2023)
Performing in Charlotte Gash's Auktion of Gash Station, Neue Kunstverrein for Parallel Editions, Wien (2023)
Acting in Breeder or Sucker; The TV Show Episode 2, by Charlotte GASH, Wien (2022)
Performing in, Dynamic Resistance, by Jojo Ahlkvist and Hedda Bauer, Kristianstads Konsthall (2022)
Acting in, Breeder or Sucker; The TV Show, Episode 1, by Charlotte GASH, Wien (2022)
Performing in and costume for, Donda, Little Edie Investigates The Musical, by Charlotte Gash, Boalt Logen Theatre, Boalt, Sweden (2021)
Performing in Dynamic Resistance, by Jojo Ahlkvist and Hedda Bauer/Karolyn Braegger, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich (2021)
Performer in Video, "The Fool" in Jovan Glušica´s The Fool, live streamed in the show
WERISTdICHTER? , ContextCocktail, Wien, online event (2020)
Performing, ”The Cake Roller” in Hedda Bauers, Cakes of Despair, opening-performance Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts, Wien (2020)
Performing in, Breeder or Sucker; The Play, by Charlotte GASH, Academy of Fine Arts, Wien (2019)
Performing in Carola Dertnig´s Again Audience, at MAK, Wien (2018)
Performing in Mar Fjell´s intervension Point of Constant Departures, at Konstfack, Stockholm (2018)
Performing in Mar Fjell and Petra Hultman's Suggested Stories on Power – Live, Färgfabriken, Stockholm (2018)
Acting in Like Me - Effect by 25th Frame Effect at Teater Tribunalen, Stockholm (2018)
Acting in Like Me - Effect by 25th Frame Effect at Kamraterna, (previous Dramalabbet) Stockholm (2017)
PUBLICATIONSS, TALKS, AND RESIDENCIES
Project funding, grant, Academy of Fine Arts, Wien (2025)
Workshop fUn WiTh WiGs! Put a wig on it! Alles Wigs!, ZAK, Téte-A-Téte, Wien (2024)
Academy scholarship for ImpulsTanz (2021 and 2023)
EUNIC artist residency program 2022, hosted by EUNIC and Goethe-Institut Thailand. Bangkok (2022)
Publication, Ripples with In Each Others Company (2022), Released at Konsthall C (2023)
Art residence, Foundation 1 of In Each Others Company, Varvsarbetarhuset, Bredäng, Sweden (2020)
Artist exercise program, Circuit Training, by Mar Fjell, twice a week, ongoing, online
A Call for Care and Connection, participating in an ongoing project in the format of a queer quire by Mar Fjell, Berlin/Online (2019—)
Lecture on hat making and exhibition, Röhsska Museet Göteborg (2013)
WORK
Costume design and making for Charlotte Gash's The Sound Of Losers, Tanzquartier, Wien (2024)
Costume sewing for Alice by Serapions Theater und sirene Operntheater, Theatre Odeon, Wien (2023)
Constructing Mannequins for Joanna Woś exhibition with Wschód Gallery, New York (2023)
Co-organiser of Hotellhänget (The Hotel Hang Out), a queer, lesbian bar, taking place every fifth week located in Hotel Rival and Clarion Hotel Sign, Stockholm, (2015—ongoing)
Wanås Konst, Sculpture Park and Art Gallery, Guide, Knisslinge, Sweden (2019)
Artist Markus Öhrn, sewing assistent for the performance ”3 Episodes of Life” shown at Wiener
Festwochen at Studio Moliere, Wien (2019)
Artist Carola Dertnig, assistant for exhibition in Galerie Crone, Berlin (2019)
Stockholms Stadsmission, Textile Valuer, Stockholm (2016-2017)
Teater Tribunalen, Costume sewing, Stockholm (2015)
H.C.Oberg, Vegan Millinery, founder (2013-2017)
H&M, internship, Pattern Making assistent for Accessories department, Stockholm (2014)
Diamond Dogs Productions AB, Seamstress costume studios, Stockholm (2014)
Ellen Christine Couture, internship, Millinery/Sewing hats, New York (2013)
Sveriges Elevråd - SVEA, Head of Education Training, Stockholm (2008-2011)
Save the Children Youth Sweden, Federal Board Coordinator, Norrköping/Stockholm (2007 -2008)
Contact Me
charlotta.oberg(a)gmail.com
+46 73 04 77 270
+43 676 6606045