Charlotte Østergaard
Roles:
Author, Reader
Biography
Dr. Charlotte Østergaard is a Danish textile artist, costume and fashion designer, educator, and researcher working at the intersection of craft, design, performance, and artistic research. Her work focuses on textile-relational practices, participatory performance, and costume as a collective, sensorial co-actor.
Østergaard holds a PhD in artistic research from Lund University with the dissertation Crafting Material Bodies (published on Research Catalogue). Her research is published in journals such as Peripeti (2022) and Studies in Costume & Performance (2018), as well as in several international anthologies.
Østergaard has received multiple grants from the Danish Arts Foundation and has an extensive international exhibition practice. Her artworks have been presented in curated exhibitions in Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Russia, Ukraine, and the USA, and her designs are represented in the collections of Design Museum Denmark and the National Gallery of Denmark.
Østergaard’s participatory, textile-driven performances have been featured at festivals including Performing Landscapes (2025), Riga Performance Festival Starptelpa (2025), SWOP (2023, 2022), and the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (2023, 2019). Her performance-project AweAre was nominated for the Biennale Prize at the Biennale for Craft & Design, Denmark (2019), and received an Excellence Award at From Lausanne to Beijing – 11th International Fiber Art Biennale (2020).
With more than 30 years of professional experience, Østergaard has designed costumes for over 75 contemporary dance productions for leading dance companies and independent choreographers, several of which have received theatre awards.