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Charlotte Østergaard is a Danish artist working between costume and textile. The main focus in all of Charlotte’s artistic work is a fascination for the body as a cultural and artistic expression.
Charlotte Østergaard is performing artistic research on costume as PhD fellow at Malmö Theater Academy, Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University in Sweden.
Charlotte is member of Danske Scenografer and Billedkunstnernes Forbund.
Charlotte has designed costumes more than 65 contemporary dance performances for numerous contemporary dance companies and independent choreographers in Denmark and abroad, several of which has revised theater awards. Charlotte has designes costumes for among others for Danish Dance Company, Black Box Dance Company, Åben Dans, Odsherred Theater, dadadans.dk, X-Act, Pantomimeteateret, Rambert Dance Company, Det Unge Dansekompagni, Skånes Dansteater, Den Kungelige Svenske Opera, Den Norske Kongelige Ballet and the Danish National School of Performing Arts and for the coreographers Kitt Johnson, Tim Rushton, Fotis Nicolau, Roberto Olivan, Edhem Jesenkovic, Selene Munoz, Camilla Stage, Marie Brolin-Tani, Kim Branndstrup, André Masquita, Helle Bach, Alessandro Sousa Pereira, Tina Tarpgaard og Martin Tulinius.
Charlotte has received several grants from the Danish Art Foundation and has an extensive exhibition practice. Charlotte’s artworks has been exhibited at curated exhibitions in Canada, China, Danmark, Germany, Norway, Russia, Ukraine and USA, and her work is represented in the museum collection of Danish Designmuseum and The National Gallery of Denmark. In 2019 her costumes was presented at PQ2019 – the site specific festival at 14th Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (Prague), ‘Innovative Costume of the 21st Century: The Next Generation’ (Moscow) and at the ‘The Biennale for Craft and Design’ (Copenhagen). At ‘The Biennale for Craft and Design’ her connecting-costume ‘AweAre’ was nominated for the biennale prize.
From 1999-2014 Charlotte designed the collection Charlotte Østergaard Copenhagen (CØC). In the periode 2006-2014 the studio and store of CØC was in the center of Copenhagen. The collection consisted of thematic series grounded in the crafts tradition where series of products are continuously developed. The collection is presented in fashion.
Charlotte Østergaard is an experienced teacher in costume, fashion and textile formfixation techniques. In 2011-2019 she was employed at the Danish National School of Performing Arts (DDSKS). At DDSKS Charlotte developed several an artistic research on costume.
