Charlotte Østergaard
Charlotte Østergaard is a Danish textile artist, costume designer and artistic researcher. Her artistic research PhD-thesis Crafting Material Bodies – exploring co-creative costume processes made at Malmö Theater Academy, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University, Sweden is published on Research Catalogue.
Read more about Charlotte HERE
Activities:
2025
August 18–23, 2025. Participating in and contributing to the artistic research project The dramaturgy of things in performance. Research leader: Christina Lindgren, Assistant Professor of Costume Design, Stockholm University of the Arts.
June 2-4, 2025. Participation in a workshop related to the artists research project Sonic Fashion. Research leader: Vidmina Stasiulytė (Ph.D), senior lecturer University of Borås /Swedish School of Textiles.
May 27–28, 2025. Kenote speaker at the conference “Embodied Visions: Performativity, Visuality, Materiality (1960s–1980s)” in Riga. The conference is organized within the framework of the project “Cultural and Creative Ecosystem of Latvia as a Resource of Resilience and Sustainability”.
May 20–22, 2025. External sensor MA in kostum og klejsdesign, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
May 9-11, 20205. new version of Community Walk (Copenhagen) at Metropolis Performing Landscapes.
April 5 – June 1 2025, Part of the exhibition Denne Nye Verden – overvejende tekstil at Lundsgaard Gods, Kerteminde.
March 8, 2025. Presentation of artist research projekt at Danske Kunsthåndværkere og Designere årsmøde, Statens Værksteder for Kunst.
Feb 12-16, 2025. Costume design for the performance The Way We, Får 302, Copenhagen.
Feb 12, 2025. Knitted scenographic object for RED CARPET, Malmö Theatre Academy, Sweden.
Jan 15, 2025 at 13–17. Public PhD-defence, Bryggeriteateret, Malmö Theatre Academy, Lund University.
2024
Dec 4-6, 2024. Hurricanes and Scaffolding conference, Umeå University, SE. Conference presentation Co-knitting – caring for co – with Marie Ledendahl
Oct 17–19, 2024, ALLIANCES AND COMMONALITIES conference, Stockholm University of the Arts, SE. Performative presentation “Co-Creative Knitting – explorations of an improvisational practices” with Marie Ledendahl
Oct 16, 2024, 13–14:30. Costume as partner in play and creativity. Future Days Lund University, Skissernas Museum, Lund, SE. Presentation of the artistic research project Community Walk.
Och 10, 2024. Præsentation: Værtskabets betydning for ledelse – skab dit eget værtskab. Symposium: Fremtidens ledende fælleskaber. Afholdt af Kitchen Collective
Sep 20, 2024, 18:00, NJYD – ENTANGLED koncert i og med tekstiler, Musikhuset København, DK.
Sep – Dec 2024, MATERIAL THINKING – 2nd International Contemporary Material Art Biennale, China.
June 12–14, 2024. CROCUS conference BEYOND SITE/SIGHT.
June 11, 2024. Workshop “costume e and embodiment”, Art-based research phd course, Aarhus University, DK.
May 2–6, 2024. KNYTTE BÅND – project in collaboration with Aaben Dans, performance artist Linh Le and three primary schools: Absalonskolen and Trekronerskolen in Roskilde and Bauneskolen in Jyllinge + Connect, SWOP festival, Musicon, Roskilde.
April 12–13, 2024. En tekstil dialog – en udstilling med søstrene Camilla og Charlotte Østergaard, Festival PÅ TVÆRS, Dansekapellet, DK.
April 12–13, 2024. Audience costume, Foreningen for integreret moderne dans i Danmark performance festival: Where do we go from here ? / Festival PÅ TVÆRS, Dansekapellet.
March, 2024. KNYTTE BÅND workshops at Absalonskolen and Trekronerskolen in Roskilde and Bauneskolen in Jyllinge together with performance artist Linh Le and Aaben Dans.
February 28, 2024. 75% phd seminar, Inter Art Center, Malmö, SE. Opponent: Rachel Hann.
January 31, 2024. A workshop version of Community Walk for the ABR (art-based reserarch) research network – a research network that originate from Aarhus university, Embrup (DK) motile culture didactic.
2023
August 14–27, 2023. Island Connect residency with performance artist Linh Le, Birca, Bornholm, DK.
August 4–6, 2023, Knotting Connections, Working the fields performance festival, Gylleboverket, SE.
June 8–18, 2023. The participatory walking performance/experience Community Walk 2023 will be presented at the Prague Quadrennial, Czech Republic.
May 2023. Attending and presenting at the “Material thinking – 1st International Symposium on Contemporary Art“, CN.
May 9–11, 2023. residency at Gylleboverket, SE.
April 30, 2023. KVAS co-created and co-performed with performance artist Linh Le at the exhibition ”Hej Planter”, initiated and curated by Bess Kristoffersen, Dyrehavehuset, DK.
April 11–16, 2023. Musik i tekstil – en musikalsk undersøgelse i grænsefeltet mellem kostume og scenografi. Residency på Åben Scene i Århus med NJDT kvartetten. DK.
March 17, 2023. Presentation “Costume as kin-making material” at CROCUS network meeting, Inter Arts Center, SE.
January 2nd – April 15th, 2023. Costume design for the performance Gertrud-material. Collaboration with Aune Kallinen and the Swedish acting program at UniArts Helsinki, FIN.
2022
December 2, 2022 – April 15, 2023. Material thinking – 1st International Contemporary Material Art Biennale, China.
November 17–20, 2022, Critical Costume conference (online).
May 16, 2022. 50% phd seminar, Malmö Theatre Academy, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University
March 24 and 25, 2022. W.O.M.B., Dansekapellet , costume design. DK.
March 23, 2022. Månesang, Holstebro Dansekompani, costume design. DK.
March 22, 2022. AweAre workshop, part of the Embodiment research strand of the fourth biennial research conference on Violence, PARSE, SE.
2021
November 25 – December 2, 2021. Costume Agency workshop #8, Prague, Czech Republic.
November 1-14, 2021. Residency at Inter Arts Center, Malmö, SE.
August 16 – 29 2021 Costume Agency workshop, KHiO, Oslo, Norway.
Maj/juni 2021. Deltager i TRAVERS Camp 3 Confront the Future. DK.
24 April 2021. kostumer til forestilling Jordnær, Åben Dans, DK.
2020
21- – 23. august 2020 Deltager i Critical Costumes (online).
30 Juli 2020 from 11am to 11pm; Community Walk, Wa(l)king Copenhagen, Metropolis festival, Copenhagen, DK.
27 juni 2020; Performance ‘AweAre – a movement quintet’ vises Performance festivalen ‘Up Close’ på Det Classenske Bibliotek i København. Dansere: Alex Berg, Camille Marchadour, Daniel Jeremiah Persson, Josefine Ibsen. Soundscape: Viktor Dahl, DK.
May 2020, teaching at London Collage of Fashion, UAL. UK.
18. marts 2020 Premiere på “Månesang”, koreografi Marie Brolin-Tani med kostumer af Charlotte Østergaard, Black Box Dance Theater – forestilling udsat
1. jan. 2020 , PhD fellow at Malmö Theater Academy, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University, SE.
More information HERE