About me
Freja Hallberg is a Swedish playwright, writer and director whose original texts and performances moves between independent structures and major institutions. She has created more than 40 original works and is the founder of Konträr in Stockholm.
Her work spans plays, durational works, participatory formats and large-scale productions exploring how people behave together inside social and political structures.
Hallberg’s works have been created and presented in Swedish, English, German, Serbian and Danish across independent and institutional contexts internationally.
Audience presence is central to her work, where time, attention and proximity become active elements of the performance.
Alongside her artistic work, Hallberg builds long-term structures for contemporary performance and engages publicly in questions concerning artistic labor, cultural policy and independent infrastructures. She founded PotatoPotato, co-leads the international platform SWEETS, and is part of the artistic leadership of Konträr — a subscription-funded stage for contemporary performance in Stockholm.
Artist statement
I don’t write plays. I score them.
I write not for a protagonist, but for a polyphony.
Not for a message, but for a shared space.
Not for a voice, but for a choir.
My performances often begin with something disarmingly simple — a stack of receipts, a wedding between strangers, a long-forgotten apology — and unravel into dense, absurd, sometimes devastating worlds.
They are often funny. Sometimes brutal.
My pieces don’t follow a narrative arc. They follow rhythm. Rupture. Repetition.
I don’t explain.
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