About me
Freja Hallberg is a playwright and director working with performance across different scales and formats. Her practice includes plays, durational works, participatory formats and long-term artistic projects. Her work lives where performance meets philosophy and politics — raw, emotionally precise, and formally unexpected.
The work is developed over time, often in close collaboration with performers and institutions. Hallberg is interested in how structures shape behaviour, and in building situations rather than representations.
Audience presence is central to her work. Rather than observing from a distance, audiences are placed inside shared situations where attention, time and proximity matter.
Alongside her artistic practice, Hallberg develops long-term structures for artistic production and presentation. She founded PotatoPotato, co-leads the international platform SWEETS, and runs Konträr, a subscription-based stage for contemporary performance in Stockholm.
Based in Stockholm, she works internationally in collaboration with theatres, festivals and independent contexts.
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.
I let the difficult stay in the room.
