The Danish exhibition presents a wide range of Danish scenographers and emphasizes the diversity of the artistic expression, which characterizes the theatres of the country. The elaboration of the exhibition is a "Cabinet of Scenography" - a complete paradise to investigate. In its simplicity and straight lines you will recognize the tradition of Danish design, and functionality mixed with the secrets of theatre.
- Tanja Bovin
Specialization: set designer, costume designer, painter
- Steffen Aarfing
* 1955, Copenhagen
Specialization: architect, scenographer
Additional information: Freelance designer, trained as an architect. Worked as theatre architect, made designs for drama, opera, TV pro-ductions and movie. The designs for "Grande Macabre" called for several different settings. A cartoon-like environ-ment was achieved by calculating exact perspectives on tho computer and transferring thorn to compressed cnc-cut structures.
- Marie í Dali
* 1965, Copenhagen
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: She graduated from Wimbledon School of Art. She works as a designer for drama and opera. Her stage design for the Queen of Spades is produced as black&white "cinema-noir" look, an ever-rotating nightmare that finally colapses around the main figures.
Exhibiting works
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Petr I. Čajkovský: (Queen of Spades),
(Royal Opera Copenhagen),
2000, Director: Kasper Bech Holten,
- Lise Klitten
* 1954, Copenhagen
Specialization: set designer, costume designer
Additional information: Lise Klitten is an autodidact designer and works mostly in modern dance theatre and film. 'Still-Life' is a dance production about a female musician, traveler and accordion player who becomes a sailor. It is inspired by Fassbinder's film 'Corelle'. She exhibited at PQ in 1995.
Text to the PQ'15 Catalogue:
Lise works in contemporary performance art and is involved in textile and set design, theatre scenography and costume design. Her works are often quite striking, simple and surprising in their mode of expression due to her unconventional choice of materials and simple solutions.
- Julie Forchhammer
* 1963, Copenhagen
Specialization: set designer
- Karin Betz
* 1955, Copenhagen
Additional information: Educated from the Danish National school of theatre, where she is currently teaching. As a set designer she is collabo-rating with drama, opera, ballet and experimental groups in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Her stage design for l-K-O-N, TM has 3 "layers" - the midstage is the anchor of the scene. Hanging walls in different shapes and colours are hiding or revealing the space.
- Camilla Bjornvad
* 1966, Copenhagen
Additional information: She graduated from The State Theatre School in Copenha-gen. As a set designer collaborates with drama and opera theatres, film and TV productions, exhibitions. The theatre "0stre Gasvaerk" is an old gas tank. The scenography is inspired by the space and its atmoshpere and gives the audi-ence the feeling of being in another place in another time.
- Jesper Corneliussen
* 1951, Naesved
Additional information: He was educated as an art director at Gert Hansens Advertise Agency in Copenhagen. Teaches at the Danish National Theatre School, is member of the artistic direc-tion at Aalborg Theatre. His exhibited stage design presents postmortal metaphysical and mental room. A confined water filled claustrophobic capsule is moving continously away from Earth into the Universe. A place where you realize your actual death and make your transition. It is related to Christian and Buddhist scriptures dealing with post mortal consciousness.
- Pernille Egeskov Bigun
* 1970, Copenhagen
Additional information: She is educated at The Danish School of Design as cos-tume and set designer. Collaborates with modern ballet and drama theatres. The designer took her inspiration in the Mozart period and our presence: the ornaments are picked from old, fantastic fabrics. She only used small parts, though, which she enlarged, simplified and made more graphic, so that they fit in our present time.
- Birgitte Fleuron Daal
* 1967
Additional information: She graduated from The School of Arts and Craft in Kold-ing as costume designer and from The Danish School of Design as theatre architect and interior designer.
- Anette Hansen
* 1951, Middelfart
Additional information: She graduated from the Danish Design school, where she currently works as a set designer and freelance consultant.
She exhibited at PQ in 1995.
- Claus Helbo
* 1963
Additional information: Main features of his work: Squares, hard lines + an open definition of the actor's space.
- Rikke Juellund
* 1968
Additional information: She graduated from The Danish State Theatre School, she works as a designer in various theatres in Denmark and Swodon. She exhibited at PQ in 1995.
- Thomas Kolding
* 1963, Copenhagen
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: Educated from Danish Design School. Works as a scenog-rapher for opera, modern dance, drama, performances, children theatre. The scene is a totally red room - with a bed in the middle and with a big knife to cut a man's head, and a slashed board underneath the bed where the blood was running.
- V. H. H. Bjarne Solberg
Specialization: set designer
Additional information: He is a stage designer and installation artist.
