What to know | Anna Uddenberg Solo Exhibition "White Noise" Opens October 22 at Telegraph Gallery in the Czech Republic, Exploring the Relationship Between Corporate Spaces and the Body Through Sculpture
The key details: Swedish artist Anna Uddenberg will hold her solo exhibition "White Noise" at Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc, Czech Republic, running from October 22, 2026, to February 4, 2027. Featuring sculptural figures fused with Herman Miller office chairs, this marks her first solo exhibition in the Czech Republic.
Berlin-based Swedish artist Anna Uddenberg will open her solo exhibition "White Noise" on October 22, 2026, at Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc, Czech Republic, with the exhibition running through February 4, 2027. This is Uddenberg's first solo exhibition in the Czech Republic. Curated by Samuel Staples, the exhibition transforms the gallery space into a sterile corporate office environment.
Exhibition series key visual, provided by the gallery Image: Courtesy of the artist and Telegraph GalleryExhibition series key visual, provided by the gallery Image: Courtesy of the artist and Telegraph Gallery
How does the exhibition space evoke a corporate office atmosphere?
According to the exhibition introduction, Telegraph Gallery will be furnished with office cubicle partitions, fluorescent lighting tubes, and Herman Miller office chairs, recreating familiar sights of the modern workplace. The exhibition attempts to show how these designs, originally intended to enhance efficiency and comfort, invisibly become mechanisms that dominate the body and behavior.
Why do the boundaries between sculptural figures and furniture become blurred?
The core visual language of this exhibition features Uddenberg's sculptural figures appearing to grow out of desks and chairs, with the boundaries between them and their supporting objects gradually dissolving. Exhibition texts note that this fusion points to the hidden control logic behind ergonomic design—office furniture touted as "body-fitting" simultaneously regulates and shapes the user's posture and behavior, causing ergonomics to yield to corporate control as the body becomes an extension of the corporate machine.
Why was Telegraph Gallery chosen as the venue?
The industrial building housing Telegraph Gallery carries its own history of labor and production, which forms a contrast with the themes explored in "White Noise." Curator Samuel Staples utilizes this spatial context to echo and contrast the physical demands of industrial labor with the more covert forms of bodily discipline found in today's office spaces.
Exhibition series key visual, provided by the gallery Image: Courtesy of the artist and Telegraph Gallery
What is Anna Uddenberg's past creative trajectory?
Uddenberg's work has long focused on the relationship between humans and everyday objects, frequently drawing inspiration from fashion, technology, wellness culture, and public interior design, pushing these elements into grotesque territories to question whether designs aimed at making life easier also shape behavior in ways people barely notice. "White Noise" continues this creative trajectory by focusing on the office scenario.
Exhibition series key visual, provided by the gallery Image: Courtesy of the artist and Telegraph Gallery
Exhibition Information
"White Noise" runs from October 22, 2026, to February 4, 2027, located at Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc, Czech Republic, with the address Jungmannova 3, 779 00 Olomouc 9-Hodolany.
