Monologues on a Treadmill

Monologues on a Treadmill deals with the present and future dystopian topics.
​In the first monologue, we meet a rich boy who just lost a million on a scam, being upset he realizes that it doesn’t matter too much as we are more and more part of an unequal society where his dad is lucky enough to be part of the 1% and has many more millions to spare. The second one is a mix between Molière’s ”Tartuffe” and an investor who becomes extremely rich having wealthy people put their money into dubious fonds to avoid paying taxes. Last person is ”an artist” that you see on instagram short videos where he talks about his practice.

Marie Karlberg (b. 1985, lives and works in Stockholm) began making art as a reaction to predetermined forms of social life. In 2025 she received her MFA from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. ISSUES has presented the performances Eating a Bananain January 2025 and Watching Paint Dry in 2024. In 2015, a solo exhibition at Grand Hôtel in Stockholm as well as all three iterations of Downtown Issues. In November 2025, New Theater in Los Angeles staged Marie’s play I'M JUST A SYMPTOM OF A MORAL DECAY. Previously, Marie has staged Nudge Articule, a performance, at Art Basel Miami, hosted by MoMA PS1 (2023), presented the video The Good Terrorist in Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York (2021) and taken part in The 9th Berlin Biennale (2016). Selected solo shows are Illusion and Reality, Tramps, New York (2019); The Brutal Truth, Bonny Poon, Paris (2018); Conscious Consequences, Plymouth Rock, Zürich (2018) and Stranger in the Dark, Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York (2014). She has staged her performances at Company Gallery, New York (2020), Elevation1049, Gstaad (2019); Artists’ Space, New York (2019) and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, (2017).
Marie opened her much celebrated gallery Beau Travail in 2024.
Marie’s work is included in public collections such as The Schaulager Foundation, Münchenstein; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

The performance is kindly supported by Technogym.