To wrap up this year’s “What Is Stage: Space as Poetry” series on the work of German stage designer, costume designer and art educator Anna Viebrock, we are delighted to welcome Viebrock to share her experience in an in-depth public seminar.
Since the 1990s, Anna Viebrock has worked with the world’s leading theatres and opera houses – including Theater Basel, Volksbühne Berlin and Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam – reinventing contemporary stage design with her radical approach to space and architecture.
In conversation with Edward Lam and West Kowloon’s Low Kee Hong, Viebrock talks about her work and explores how stage design can shape perceptions of time, space and emotion.
The seminar is free and open to theatre professionals and those with an interest in contemporary theatre.
Date:
27 September 2019 (Friday)
Time:
7:30pm–10:00pm
Venue:
The Box, Freespace, Art Park, West Kowloon Cultural District (Getting to Freespace)
Speaker:
Anna Viebrock (Stage designer, costume designer, director and art educator, Germany)
Co-moderators:
Edward Lam (Artistic Director, Edward Lam Dance Theatre)
Low Kee Hong (Head of Theatre, Performing Arts, West Kowloon)
Language:
Conducted in English with simultaneous Cantonese and Mandarin interpretation
Target participants:
Theatre professionals and those with an interest in theatre
Registration:
Free admission. Limited capacity on a first come, first served basis. Details to be announced
Adverse Weather Arrangements:
If a black rainstorm warning, or a typhoon signal no. 8 or above is in force three hours before the start of the talk, the event will be cancelled.
Enquiries:
Ms Siu (852) 2200 0804, pa1@wkcda.hk
Remarks:
The organiser reserves the right to change the programme content and speaker. All changes will be announced on the website.
Overseas participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.
Anna Viebrock
Stage designer, costume designer, director and art educator, Germany
Anna Viebrock studied stage design at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her collaboration with Christoph Marthaler has taken her to Theater Basel, Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Frankfurt Opera, the Paris Opera, the Royal Theatre Madrid, the Vienna Festival, the Festival d’Avignon, as well as to the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals.
With Stefanie Carp and Christoph Marthaler, Viebrock directed the Zürich Playhouse from 2000 to 2004. Since 1994 she has been working with the direction team Jossi Wieler/Sergio Morabito on opera productions at the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam and the Stuttgart Opera, among others. She has also designed for director René Pollesch and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. In 2017 Viebrock showed the exhibition “The Boat is Leaking, The Captain Lied” at the Fondazione Prada in Venice, which she designed in collaboration with Alexander Kluge, Thomas Demand and Udo Kittelmann.
She has been awarded “Stage Designer of the Year” and “Costume Designer of the Year” 16 times. In 1997 she was awarded the Hessian Cultural Prize by the State of Hesse. In 2004 she was awarded the Berlin Theatre Prize and in 2013 the Hein-Heckroth Prize. She was awarded the Zürich Festival Prize in 2015.
Since 2002, Anna Viebrock has also directed at the Staatsoper Hannover, the Bastille Opera House in Paris, the Hebbel am Ufer Berlin (HAU), the Schauspiel Köln, the Mannheim National Theatre, the Munich Biennale and the Schwetzinger Festival. Anna Viebrock is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
