Out of Character
Accelerator presents the solo exhibition Out of Character by Linnéa Sjöberg. The exhibition highlights several aspects of Sjöberg’s wide-ranging practice which spans performance, installations, textile works and moving image.
Linnéa Sjöberg's exhibition 'Out of Character' is presented 14 March – 14 June 2026. Portrait by Märta Thisner.
About the exhibition
For the first time, documentary photographs and videos from a selection of Linnéa Sjöberg’s performative works are presented, alongside new sculptural installations. Central to the exhibition is a desire to somehow compress the elements of life: experiences, emotions, objects – and even individuals.
Sjöberg often uses herself as material. Through year-long performative projects, she adopts different roles–for example, a businesswoman in Gtd4s810 (2009 – 2011) or a tattoo artist in Salong Flyttkartong (2012 – 2014)–to explore how a personality is created and lived in practice. After these performative phases, she creates physical works in the form of weavings, collages, and installations, where textiles, clothing, and personal objects become parts of an archive of memories and layers of life. Her works address themes such as heritage, loss, and class, often connecting to her family history and upbringing in northern Sweden. In Sjöberg’s artistic practice, life and art are literally woven together, with the materiality bearing traces of labour, transformation, and time.
About Linnéa Sjöberg
Linnéa Sjöberg was born in 1983 in Strömsund. Her artistic practice centres on identity, memory, and social structures. She holds a master’s degree from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Stockholm and Berlin.
Sjöberg’s works have been exhibited at several Swedish and international institutions, including Göteborgs Konsthall, Magasin III, Bonniers Konsthall, Fullersta Gård, NEST The Hague, the Athens Biennale, and the galleries Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Company Gallery, New York, and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna. In 2018, she received the Maria Bonnier Dahlin grant. Through Accelerator’s collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Linnéa Sjöberg is artist in residence at the Anthropocene Laboratory during spring 2026.
