Ulrika Segerberg
(*1976 in Eskilstuna, Sweden) is a Swedish artist. She studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and School of Visual Arts NY. Since 2001 she lives and works in Berlin. Her works include painting, sculpture, performances, video and music. Segerberg’s pictorial worlds oscillate between figuration and abstraction, large format and richness of detail. The works and texts are often based on existing stories and images from myths, folk tales and popular culture. In her installations, she combines various materials and media such as painting, ceramic objects, textile works, ceramics and text.
Her works and performances have been shown at the following venues, among others: Bohusläns Museum (Uddevalla SE), Västerås Konstmuseum (Västerås SE), Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. (Berlin), Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, (Nordhorn); Dorich House Museum, (London), LENTOS Kunstmuseum (Linz, AT), WUK, Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), Hebbel am Ufer, HAU, (Berlin). Segerberg also develops works of art in public spaces and makes music in the duos matka and M.O.G. (the Mothers of God). Her works are represented in collections such as the Swedish Arts Council, Västerås Konstmuseum and Malmö Konstmuseum.
studies
1998-2001 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, fine arts, diploma, Amsterdam
1999 School of Visual Arts, exchange, New York
1997-1998 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, basic year, Amsterdam
1995-1997 Pernbys målarskola, Stockholm
exhibitions
2025 Collapse, Toolbox, with Teemu Saukkonen, Berlin (duo)
2025 Oh no!!, Galleri 54, with Hildegard Skowasch, Gothenburg (duo)
2025 Playfullness, Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden
2025 Echo Echo – Ein Parcours durch den Stadtraum, Skulpturverein, Stadt findet Kunst, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin
2025 Dragoner.03, Berlin
2025 Komturei Buro, Coswig Anhalt, Germany
2025 Common Horizons, Kunstraum m3, Berlin
2025 ALLESTIER/ALLANIMAL, Novamondo, Berlin
2025 Kunst fährt Ringbahn, Skulpturverein, Berlin
2024 The Banana Contact, mp43-projektraum für das periphere, Berlin (solo)
2024 Surprise, Surprise!, Galerie3, Vienna
2024 Das Gewand, Komturei Buro, Coswig Anhalt,, Germany
2024 I heard your name in high places, Kleine Orangerie am Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin
2024 Embers and Stars / Glöd och stjärnor, Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden
2024 Aurélie, io lux, Berlin
2023 Knowing, io lux, with Hildegard Skowasch, Berlin (duo)
2023 Hulth, Ljung & Segerberg, Västerås Konstmuseum
2023 x is here, zf-projektraum, Berlinskulpturverein, Königskolonnaden, Berlin
2023 Ortstermin / Kunstfestival Moabit, Berlin
2023 WEWEREHERE, Kunstraum m3, Berlin
2022 decapitalize humanity, Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V., Berlin
2022 Salon DKB, eingeladen von Deutsche Künstlerbund e.V., Berlin,
2022 #3 Skulpturverein 7M Skulptur, Kunstpunkt Berlin, Berlin
2022 Big Mouth Carousel, zf-projektraum, Berlin
2021 WIPE, filmfestival, Flutgraben Berlin
2021 Saloon gli occhi mordenti, invited by Katrin plavcak, Vienna
2021 Kunst im Traum, HilbertRaum, Berlin
2020 Prozess_Farbe, curated by Thomas niemeyer, Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn
2019 42theFloor/the Shadow Exploded, dispari&dispari project, Berlin (solo)
2019 M.O.G. / Festival für selbstgebaute Musik, ZKU, Berlin
2019 No Sentences From Words, curated by Gerlinde Zeilner, der Kunstsalon im Fluc, Vienna
2019 Feminal, curated by Dr. Marta Wróblewska, Gdańska Galeria Güntera Grassa, Danzig
2019 feminal, curated by Dr. Marta Wróblewska, Nürnberg House, Krakow
2019 FAKE COVERS FOR FAKE MUSIC VOL. II, HilbertRaum, Berlin
2018 Horizont - Linie, Raum, Zeit, Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenshoop, Germany
2018 Veckad Paviljong, WAVE music and arts festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
2018 Iron, Sweat, Hormones, HilbertRaum, Berlin
2018 Abaco Space, Kunow, Germany
2018 So Real - Really So, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg
2018 Pole Positions, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin
2017 Raze/Raise, m3 Kunsthalle, Berlin
2017 Skulpturparken Ängelsberg, Ängelsberg, Sweden
2016 Monkey Wrench, Galleri 21, Malmö (solo)
2016 All that meat and no potatoes, Bar Babette, Berlin
2016 Stage Diving, Galleri Syster, Luleå, Sweden
2016 Feelings of my Thatched Hut, Grimmuseum, Berlin
2016 Dream Worlds − Magic, fantasy and dreams from the collection, Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden
2016 De Lirio - Raritätenladen Vol. 1, Galerie Braubach 5, Frankfurt
2015 Move, Your Body, Dispari & Dispari Project, Reggio Emilia (solo)
2015 Remove the Space, Ytan, Västerås, Sweden (solo)
2015 Rabenmütter, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
2015 Shake Your Body, Urlaub Project, Berlin
2015 History of Painting Revisited, the Function Room, London
2015 Locker out of Order, oqbo, Berlin
2015 TimeSpace, Pannrummet, Konsthall C, Stockholm
2014 Sévres!, Stay Hungry, Berlin (solo)
2014 TAZ 3 / Temporary Autonomous Zone, ƒƒ, Teatr Studio Galeria, Warsaw
2014 Helium, Goldrausch art IT, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V., Flutgraben, Berlin
2014 Symmetrie des Wassers, WUK, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2014 Double Trouble, Kunsthalle m3, Berlin
2014 FLING FLING, ƒƒ, Spor Klübü, Berlin
2014 PPP - Pink Paper Project, Konstföreningen Aura, Lund
2013 the Performative Minute, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2013 Stag, DispariDispari Project, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2013 Games, m3 Kunsthalle, Berlin
2013 The Oracle: »What is your prophecy for the future?, ƒƒ, the Wand, Berlin
2013 Collaborations, Temporary Autonomous Zone / 2, ƒƒ, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
2012 Spagat i Gult, Vargåkra Gårds Konsthall, Hammenhög, Sweden (solo)
2012 Bei der Arbeit, Galerie der KG FreiRäume, Hallein, Germany
2012 Cognitio Arsphobiae : Show Therapy, the Wand, Berlin
2012 TimeSpace Skogsfestivalen, Skogsfestivalen Åfallet, Sweden
2012 Pyrate Realations, m3 Kunsthalle, Berlin
2012 Friction, Homebase, Berlin
2011 Dirty Fingers, Wiesenburg, Wedding Kulturfestival, Berlin
2011 Ghost, Gerlesborgs Konsthall, Gerlesborg, Sweden
2011 TimeSpace, Gylleboverket, Gyllebo, Sweden
2011 TimeSpace, Wiesenburg, Berlin
2011 Ruine, Wiesenburg, Berlin
2011 Endless Boogie, the Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
2011 Naked Factory, 10 Jahre Kunsthalle m3, m3 Kunsthalle, Berlin
2010 Time to Collision, Galleri KAZ, Västerås, Sweden (solo)
2010 Helter Skelter, hildegard project, Kulturpalast Wedding International, Berlin
2010 Du willst es doch auch, Hase, m3 Kunsthalle, Berlin
2010 Collage Accident, the Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
2009 Visiting Baba Yaga, Infernesque, Berlin (solo)
2009 Swedish Transformation, PC-Ware AG, Berlin
2009 Portrait of the Artist(s), life bomb, Berlin
2008 Curvas Peligrosas, Life Bomb, Berlin (solo)
2008 Swedish Transformation, Swedish Consulat, Leipzig
2008 Bodenlos, COMA, UFO, Frankfurt am Main
2007 Exile, Arnstedt & Kullgren, Östra Karup, Sweden
2007 Vision Drive, Residence of the Swedish Embassy, Berlin (solo)
2005 Galleri Arnstedt & Kullgren, Östa Karup, Sweden (solo)
2006 Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup, Sweden (solo)
2004 Berliner Kunstprojekt, with Matthias Reinmuth, Berlin (duo)
2004 The Delighted Eye, Subspace, Berlin
2001 m3 Kunsthalle, with Miriam Vlaming, Berlin (duo)
2001 Things that fly and things that don’t, Projectspace 1073 EP, Amsterdam (solo)
2000 Goal, Rietveld Pavillion, Gerrit Rietveld Acadamy Amsterdam (solo)
public works
2020-2026 Kissed by Baubo Masthuggskajens Parkinghouse, Gothenburg commissioned by Göteborg Stads Parkering AB, (s)
2024 Elsenstraße – Schulbauoffenzive, Design for a Public Work, competition, Berlin, (g)
2019 TWIN WIN, Björkåsskolan, Gothenburg commissioned by Lokalförvaltningen Göteborgs Stad, (s)
represented
Public Art Agency Sweden / Statens Konstråd,
Västerås Konstmuseum, se
Malmö Konstmuseum, (s)
Uppsala Kommun, (s)
Region Västmanland, (s)
private collections
performance
2025 M.O.G. live-electronic on sewing-machines, Dragoner.03, Berlin
2021 M.O.G. Irrhain, Studio Caroline Bitterman, Berlin
2021 M.O.G., Saloon gli occhi mordenti, Vienna
2019 M.O.G., dispari&dispari project, Berlin
2019 M.O.G., ratskeller, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
2019 M.O.G., no sentences from words, Fluc, Vienna
2019 M.O.G., Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin
2019 M.O.G., Feminal, Gdańska Galeria Güntera Grassa, Danzig
2019 M.O.G., um die Häuser ziehen, Axel Obiger, Berlin
2019 M.O.G., Pissing in a River. Again!, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2018 M.O.G., clubblumenLodge No. 2, Schwanberg, Austria
2018 M.O.G., Festival für selbstgebaute Musik, ZK/U, Berlin
2018 M.O.G., A Staged Event – Women’s Practice and Thinking, Dorich House museum, London
2018 matka, electronic/voice, Martin Kleinmichel & Ulrika Segerberg, Galerie in der Alten Feuerwache matka, loschwitz, Dresden
2018 matka, Loophole, Berlin
2018 matka, Phono Club, Berlin
2017 matka, Tanzhalle Berlin
2017 M.O.G., m3 Kunsthalle, Berlin
2016 M.O.G., No fun without EU, London
2016 Stage Diving, Galleri Syster, Luleå, Sweden
2016 M.O.G., Rauchhaus, Berlin
2016 M.O.G., Archiv, Potsdam
2016 M.O.G. aka Rostrum, Grimmuseum, Berlin
2016 M.O.G. aka Rostrum, Marabou Parken, Stockholm
2016 M.O.G. aka Rostrum, Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås
2016 M.O.G. aka Rostrum, Köttinspektionen, Uppsala
2016 M.O.G. aka Rostrum, HAU, Berlin
2016 M.O.G. aka Rostrum, Haus am Lützowplats, Berlin
2015 Remove the Space with Water, Ytan, Västerås, Sweden
2015 Pfffffffff, To Gather Instant Purification, ƒƒ, Momentum, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2014 Rostrum (aka M.O.G), Teatr Studio, Warsaw
2014 The Time it takes to whip an Egg, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, WUK, Vienna
2013 The Mother is a Square, the Performative Minute, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2013 History of Painting Revisited, ƒƒ, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin
2011 Der umgekehrte See, TimeSpace, Wiesenburg, Berlin
music release
2025 matka, the Collapse, song and video release
2024 matka, das Versteck, instrumental, song and video release
2023 matka, das Versteck, song and video release
2022 matka, Baumhütte, song and video release matka, Blue Lagoon, song and video release
2021 matka, Decay, song and video release
grants/support
2023 Västerås City Grant Committee, (s)
2022 Swedish Art Grant Committee – 1 years working grant, (s)
2019 Region Västmanland, culture grant, (s)
2019 Längmanska Foundation, publication support, (s)
2017 Swedish Art Grant Committee – 2 years working grant, (s)
since 2016 financial support for an artist studio from the Berlin Senate, (g)
2014 Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, (s)
2014 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT, funding for female artists from Berlin, Berlin Senate, (g)
2008 Swedish Art Grant Committee – 1 year working grant, (s)
2008 Ester Lindahl Foundation, (s)
2006 Västerås City Grant Committee, (s)
1997 Stiftelsen Ida & Gustav Unman foundation, (s)
artist talks/teaching (selection)
abk, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, ABK, Artist Talk, 2025
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Seminar, 2025
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Seminar, 2024
Bohusläns Museum, Artist Talk, 2024
Falkenberg Art School - Distance Education, courses since 2022
Västerås Konstmuseum, Guided Tour in the exhibition Hulth, Ljung and Segerberg, 2024
Kunstakademie Burg Giebischenstein, Halle, akt – experimental drawing, 2022, 2023
Bard College berlin, studio visits, 2024, 2023
Salon DKB, studio salon, invited by Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V., Berlin, 2022
Berlin Art Institute BAI, studio talks, artist talk, Berlin, 2018, 2019, 2022
Västerås Konstmuseum, artist talk, 2015
Kunstuniversität Linz, Artist Talk, Workshop, 2015
Summer Academy Salzburg, Salzburg, teaching assignment, class Katrin Plavčak, 2013, 2012, 2011