Biography

Lotte van den Berg studied Law, Theater Studies and Philosophy and graduated at the Theatre Directing Department of the Amsterdam School of the Arts. She is an internationally renowned theater maker who increasingly translates her social commitment into her work. Building Conversation, a platform for dialogical art, which she leeds together with Daan ’t Sas and Peter Aers, is an inevitable result of this. Together with Benjamin Verdonck and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, she was a member of the artistic team of the Toneelhuis in Antwerp and shortly afterwards led OMSK, an idiosyncratic place in Dordrecht where her work explored the relationship between the community near and far, in the Congolese metropolis. After returning from Kinshasa, her work slowly changed and with it the role she herself took within the creative processes she initiated. The participating audience and its individual and collective creation processes more and more came into focus. Lotte van den Berg uses her artistic talent to create frameworks that make the seemingly insignificant visible. Within the framework of art, she creates temporary public spaces in which our social (in)capacity becomes visible and an interpersonal process is initiated.