Charlotta Öberg (1987)
Charlotta is currently based in Vienna and a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Born in Söderhamn, also lived in Göteborg and Stockholm, Sweden.
In her practice she is questioning power structures and restrictions in the society such as norms of behavior, norms of being heterosexual and norms of being successful and healthy. Exploring what feelings this creates and different ways of handle this hinders and how to fight society restrictions by doing. She is interested in what in these structures affects our personal behaviors? What creates them? What comes out of them? Affecting whom? She believes this work requires sharing experiences with others. Therefore she is mostly working interactive or/and in collaboration with other artists and activists
Charlotta has a background in working with human rights in different NGO´s. Her works are mostly performance-based and/or including interactive elements. She also uses her crafting skills from being a trained pattern maker and milliner.
Charlotta wants to create plattforms for emotional meetings as with her piece Spoon - Me (2017). This piece was created out of a strong desire for a shared softness and tenderness, that she want to create and se more of within our society. Later she exhibited Soft Anus Sinkhole (2018) which took form as a 2*2*2 meter textile sculpture which you could climb up at and sink into a soft hole. Right now she is working on a project called The Making of Soft Anuses and is also engaged in an ongoing collaboration with artist Charlotte Gash making the Sorry I Love You, Bar, and other collaborations with artist Sophie Stadler and with artist Eva Sommer.
Charlottas work, collaborations and participations has been exhibited in Glimåkra: Svenska Vävstolsmuseet, Stockholm at: FISTAHOOD HOUSE, Studio Mossutställningar, Konstfack, Färgfabriken, Stockholms Kulturhus (Stockholm Pride Festival), Kamraterna, Teater Tribunalen, Dramalabbet, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Gerlesborgsskolan, Katteljén ; Vittsjö at: Boalt Spa men resort, värme men gödsel ; Göteborg at: Röhsska Museet, Galleri Monitor ; Vienna at: Akademie der bildenden Künste; Rundgang, Volkskundemuseum, Kunstraum Niederösterreich.
Education
2018 - ongoing
2017 - 2018
2017
2012 - 2014
2009 - 2011
2006
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Gerlesborgsskolan Bohuslän, Fine Arts
Stockholm University, Postcolonial Perspective on Audiovisual Media and Performance Studies
Göteborgs Tillskärarakademi, Milliner
Stockholms Tillskärarakademi, Pattern Making and Sawing and Digital Pattern Making
Stockholm University, Psychology A
Performances and exhibitions
2019
Performing with Barbie Yoga Teacher at Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2019
Performing with Barbie Yoga Teacher at Flat concert 2, curated by Barbara Neu
Collaborations
2019
Sorry I Love You, Bar, Collage Bar Installation with Charlotta Gash, Vote, vote, vote!, Volkskundemuseum, Vienna
2019
Banal, Interactive installation with Eva Sommer, Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Other
2018
Performing in Carola Dertnigs Again Audience, at MAK
2018
Performing in Mario Fjells intervension Point of Constant Departures, Spring show at Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden,
2018
Performing in Dynamic Resistance, by Hedda Bauer and Johan Ahlqvist at Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2018
Performing in Mario Fjell and Petra Hultman's Suggested Stories on Power – Live, at Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden,
2018
Actor in Like Me - Effect by "25th Frame Effect" at Teater Tribunalen, Stockholm
2017
Actor in Like Me (Effect) by "25th Frame Effect" at Kamraterna, Stockholm
Group exhibitions
2019
Exhibited Spoon - Me and The Making of Soft Anuses at Labor, a group exhibition about sex work and queerness by Tove Pils, Galleri Monitor, Gotheburg
2018
Performing with Barbie Yoga Teacher at Galleri Helle Knudsen, group exhibition by the exam class of Gerlesborgsskolan 2018, Stockholm.
2018
Exhibiting The Real Softwear 2 at Galleri Helle Knudsen, group exhibition by the exam class of Gerlesborgsskolan 2018, Stockholm.
2013
Swamp View, textiles by me photos in collaboration with photographer Adam Tonér, exhibition at Röhsska Museet, Götebor, group exhibition by the milliner class
Contact Me
charlotta.oberg(a)gmail.com
+46 73 04 77 270