Eva Dessecker
Eva Dessecker has been working as a freelance costume and set designer in the European theater and opera world since 1991.
Her current projects include Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda (directed by Karin Beier) at the Hamburg State Opera in March 2025 and Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman in St. Margarethen.
Eva Dessecker designed the costumes for the production of Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night directed by Janusz Kica at SNG Drama Ljubljana in autumn/winter 2023. She spent the summer months of 2024 in the Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano in Italy as part of a scholarship awarded by the Berlin Academy of the Arts. There the extensive work Tissues/Stories/Connections – Summer Paths Olevano 2024 was created for the final presentation in collaboration with Villa Massimo Rome. Content of the exhibition: Theater – Biographical paths and working methods as a visual artist.
After studying archeology and art history at the University of Freiburg, Eva Dessecker's career began at the Schaubühne Berlin, during Peter Stein's time, as an employee of Moidele Bickel. During these years, a continuous collaboration developed, especially with Klaus Michael Grüber and Luc Bondy as well as their set designers Eduardo Arroyo and Gilles Aillaud, which deepened and continued throughout her life with the beginning of her independent work as a freelance costume and set designer.
Eva Dessecker also regularly works with directors such as Bob Wilson, Andrea Breth, Klaus Guth, Alvis Hermanis, Evgeny Titov, Karin Beier and Janusz Kica. The first encounter with Philipp M. Krenn came at the 2012 Salzburg Festival in the production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's The Soldiers directed by Alvis Hermanis. Wagner's The Flying Dutchman in St. Margarethen is the first collaboration with Philipp M. Krenn.