> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # In Anna Uddenberg's Office, the Chair Holds the Body Upside Down - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-olomouc/ - Published: 2026-11-10T03:58:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-10T03:57:59.000Z - Description: Anna Uddenberg turns office chairs and cubicles into unsettling sculptures in White Noise at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, on view until February 2027. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibitions, Material & Sculpture, Body & Feminism, Sculpture & Installation, Olomouc, Telegraph Gallery Olomouc ## Telegraph Gallery Opens White Noise, an Office Installation, in Olomouc An office chair is supposed to support the body. In *Anna Uddenberg's* *White Noise*, it does something rather different. Figures in tights and heels fold over Herman Miller chairs, their heads hanging down where a backrest ought to be. Fluorescent lights, grey carpets and office partitions complete a workplace where comfort has taken a strange turn. ![Anna Uddenberg, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc: red-haired figure folded over a chair at left, orange-haired figure at right.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/11/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-telegraph-olomouc-2026-installation-02.webp) ****Anna Uddenberg**, White Noise, installation view, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, 2026\. Photo: Matěj Doležel. Courtesy Galler and Artist. At [**Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc**](https://telegraph.cz/en/gallery?ref=catapult-platform.art)**,** [**Anna Uddenberg**](https://www.k-t-z.com/artists/39-anna-uddenberg/?ref=catapult-platform.art) has turned the familiar office into something considerably less reassuring. Curated by Samuel Staples, White Noise is the Berlin-based artist's first solo exhibition in the Czech Republic, on view until 4 February 2027. **White Noise** **Artist:** Anna Uddenberg **Exhibition:** White Noise **Venue:** [ Telegraph Gallery ](https://www.telegraph.cz/en?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Olomouc, Czech Republic **Dates:** 22 October 2026 – 4 February 2027 **Hours:** Tue–Thu 9 am–7 pm, Fri 9 am–9 pm, Sat–Sun 10 am–6 pm **Address:** Jungmannova 3, Olomouc **Curator:** Samuel Staples **Photography:** Matěj Doležel A suspended ceiling with fluorescent panels covers an island of grey carpet, and low partitions with ribbed translucent upper panels divide it into workstations. In several of them a figure in tights and heels, with long hair hanging down, is folded over a Herman Miller chair, often upside down, with the body where the backrest should be. ![Anna Uddenberg, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc: figure in black tights and heels, red hair hanging, upside down over an office chair.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/11/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-telegraph-olomouc-2026-installation-03.webp) ****Anna Uddenberg,** White Noise, detail view, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, 2026\. Photo: Matěj Doležel. Courtesy by the Gallery and Artist ![Anna Uddenberg, artist](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/11/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-telegraph-olomouc-2026-installation-04.webp) ****Anna Uddenberg,** White Noise, installation view, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, 2026\. Photo: Matěj Doležel. Courtesy by the Gallery and Artist Above the ceiling, the building's dark structure and its hanging cables stay in view. According to the gallery's exhibition page, the installation also includes a new sound work that amplifies and synthesizes the building's own ambient frequencies. The office is the latest in a series of settings where Uddenberg tests how furniture instructs the body. Premium Economy (Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2023) staged the airline seat and the airport queue, with crowd-control stanchions and forms that resemble ergonomic training equipment. [Anna Uddenberg: White Noise — Olomouc - Catapult ContemporaryExplore Anna Uddenberg's White Noise at Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc, where office furniture, corporate control and bodily autonomy intersect.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/catapult-c9d3349c-1561-4832-92af-52449f7a2b4c.png)Catapult ContemporaryDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-telegraph-olomouc-2026-hero-46d8b22d-2b0b-4ad9-a4a5-8bdfbfa6915f.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/anna-uddenberg/) Preview Her own term for such objects is quasi-functionality: they look usable, but what they actually do is shape behaviour. In the airport and the lounge, the discipline hides behind a promise of comfort and self-improvement. In White Noise that alibi is gone. The ergonomic chair belongs to working life, and Uddenberg lets the body take the place where the backrest should be. ![Anna Uddenberg, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc: figure with light-brown hair leaning over a chair arm before a grey partition.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/11/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-telegraph-olomouc-2026-installation-05.webp) Anna Uddenberg, White Noise, installation view, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, 2026\. Photo: Matěj Doležel. Courtesy artist and gallery ![Anna Uddenberg, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc: aisle of grey partitions with an orange-haired figure on a chair at left.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/11/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-telegraph-olomouc-2026-installation-06.webp) Anna Uddenberg, White Noise, installation view, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, 2026\. Photo: Matěj Doležel. Courtesy artist and gallery ### Curatorial Statement, Courtesy of Telegraph Gallery White Noise takes the enclosed architecture of the contemporary office as an organizing structure. In doing so it develops Anna Uddenberg's long-standing interest in functionality as a tool of control. At Telegraph Gallery the exhibition turns into a Koolhaasian Junkspace: a condensed administrative interior with suspended ceilings, fluorescent light, partitions, ventilation systems and Herman Miller office chairs. The ergonomic promises of comfort, efficiency and practicality take on a psychological dimension here. Anna Uddenberg's fragmentary and increasingly disembodied figures lose their bodily autonomy and fuse with the furniture and systems that surround them. The body itself thus becomes part of the infrastructure. ![Anna Uddenberg, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc: blonde figure hanging sideways over a chair, plush toy on a chair at right.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/11/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-telegraph-olomouc-2026-installation-07.webp) ****Anna Uddenberg**, White Noise, detail view, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, 2026\. Photo: Matěj Doležel. Courtesy artist and gallery ![Anna Uddenberg, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc: aisle between grey partitions, chair frames and a figure bent over a chair.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/11/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-telegraph-olomouc-2026-installation-08.webp) ****Anna Uddenberg,** White Noise, installation view, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, 2026\. Photo: Matěj Doležel. Courtesy Artist and Gallery For the Czech art scene, the exhibition White Noise is a landmark event. Although Anna Uddenberg's sculptural work has already found its place in leading Czech private collections and in selected group exhibitions, Telegraph Gallery in Olomouc offers Czech and Central European audiences, for the first time, the chance to confront a coherent solo project by this Swedish artist. About the artist: Anna Uddenberg, originally born in Stockholm, lives and works in Berlin. She is among the most prominent figures of the contemporary international art scene. In her practice she examines how body culture, self-stylisation and spirituality are connected with new technologies and the circulation of forms in consumer society. ![Anna Uddenberg, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc: seated figure in pinstripe jacket and black heels on an office chair.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/11/anna-uddenberg-white-noise-telegraph-olomouc-2026-portrait-01.webp) ****Anna Uddenberg,** White Noise, view with seated figure, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, 2026\. Photo: Natalia Evelyn Bencicova. Courtesy Artist and Gallery --- **About the Artist** **Anna Uddenberg** Born in Stockholm, Anna Uddenberg lives and works in Berlin. Her practice examines how body culture, self-stylisation and spirituality connect with new technologies and consumer society. White Noise will also be presented by [Meredith Rosen Gallery](https://www.instagram.com/meredithrosengallery/?ref=catapult-platform.art) in New York. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/%5Fanna%5Fuddenberg/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About the Curator** **Samuel Staples** Samuel Staples curates White Noise, developed with the artist in response to the architecture of Telegraph Gallery. **About the Location** **Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc** Telegraph Gallery shows contemporary art from the Czech Republic and abroad on 350 m² and also runs workshops, art courses and residencies. [Website](https://www.telegraph.cz/en?ref=catapult-platform.art) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/telegraph.cz/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About Catapult Contemporary** This is an exhibition review published by Catapult Contemporary, an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond. [catapult-platform.art](https://www.catapult-platform.art/) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/catapultcontemporary/?ref=catapult-platform.art) Want to be featured? [Submit your work →](https://www.catapult-platform.art/submit/)