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:
2026
9 – 11 September 2026, attending Critical Costume conference, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
Week 20-24, supervisor BA1 textile design students at Designskolen Kolding.
19 April 2026 at 13:00 and 15:00. Costume design for Julienne Doko‘s Performance Raven.
Week 8-16, supervisor KA1 textile design students at Designskolen Kolding.
Week 5, 2026: part of Metropolis’ Winter Hibernation Residency Program with the collaborative project Choreographic Entanglement with choreographer Stephanie Felber.
23–24 January, 2026. Collaborative presenting with Christina Lindgren at the conference RESPONSE AND RESPONSIBILITY – Strategies of teaching practical dramaturgy of contemporary performance. Leipzig. DE.
Week 3 and 6, 2026: part of Metropolis’ Winter Hibernation Residency Program with the collaborative project Crafting with Nature.
2025
17 November – 19 December, 2025. Eksterne underviser på External Collaboration for BA3 Accessory design, Tekstildesign og Beklædningsdesign, Design School Kolding.
November, 2025. Three day textile composition body and space workshop Teaterakademin and Röda Tråden, Malmö, Sweden.
October 30-31, 2025. Participating with the participatory and textile-relational artwork BECOMINGS in the Fabrica festival. Festival for fremtidens fællesskabende iværksættere.
October 27–28, 2025. Co-knitting research days at IAC with Marie Ledendal.
October 11, 2025. Masterclass: Listening(s) with Costume – An Embodied and Speculative Practice. Part of the series on Performance Design organized and hosted by Escula Disneo Escenico Regional de Chile.
September 19 – October 24, 2025. Artist fellowship – artist in-residence – at the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit. Funded by the Danish Art Foundation.
September 15, 2025. Gust workshop-lecture ‘Embodied (sensorial) explorations/experiences of textiles through acts of dressing’, Department of Fashion and Fiber Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
September 10–11, 2025. Workshop-lectures ‘Costume Materiality and Collective Listening(s)’, ‘Co-Crafting Strategies’ and ‘Story Telling evoked through Textile Touch and Embodied Memories’, Departments of Sexuality Studies and Fiber Art,Vanderbilt University, USA.
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.
August 8–9, 2025, Tree ritual workshops (free) with Acting for Climate / Amund Bentsen, Copenhagen. Read more and sign up here
August 1–3, 2025. Community Walk, Performing Landscapes Gibskov. Full program here
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 30, 2025. The seven-hour durational craft-performance BECOMINGS, Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa. Projektet er støttet af Statens Kunstfond.
May 27–28, 2025. Kenote speaker at the conference “Embodied Visions: Performativity, Visuality, Materiality (1960s–1980s)”, Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa. 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. Projektet er støttet af Statnes Kunstfond.
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.
More information HERE