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I am Vega Josefine Drake Carlsson, an interdisciplinary scenographer and designer working with scenography, costume, material, voice, and space.
Born in Stockholm and based in Oslo, my practice moves between theatre, puppetry, visual art, and design. I hold degrees in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design and in Theatre (Scenography) from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Material is my primary language — as memory, resistance, play, and body.
I work with visual dramaturgy and sensory experience, navigating between minimalism and maximalism, restraint and excess. Sustainability is a method, not a limit: a way of listening to what already exists.
I work with visual dramaturgy and sensory experience, navigating between minimalism and maximalism, restraint and excess. Sustainability is a method, not a limit: a way of listening to what already exists.
I create spaces that hold narratives rather than illustrate them.
CV
SCHOOLS
2025 - 2027 OsloMet, Praktisk pedagogisk Utdanning, Deltid, Design, kunst og håndverk
2021 - 2023 KHIO, Oslo National Academy of Arts, Ma, Teaterhøgskolen, - Scenography
2018 - 2021 KHIO, Oslo National Academy of Arts, BA, Design - Interior architecture & furniture design
2017 - 2018 Ölands folkhögskola, Design
2015 - 2016 Nyckelviksskolan, Färg, form och hantverk
2012 - 2015 Södra Latins gymnasieskola, Bild och Formgivning
RESIDENCE
March 2025 ATLAS residency, Portugal, Carvalhal
One-month artist residence in the beautiful countryside of Portugal.
CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
June 2023. Participation in workshops and classes in Prague Quadrennial, 2023
- Eco-Design Charrette med Tanja Beer
- Amplifying Sensory Materiality med Donatella Barbieri
Taking part as a performer in the project "Walking talking minerals", in the student section and as a concept and artist in directing this project was Olga Regitze and the Norwegian theatre academy.
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