Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Małgorzata Szczęśniak Set designer

Season 26/27 Artist

Biography

A stage designer, and the creator of the sets and costumes for all of Krzysztof Warlikowski's productions, Małgorzata Szczęśniak is the co-creator of his distinctive poetic language in both theatre and opera. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in 1972 before studying psychology at the Jagiellonian University.

In 1981, while writing her thesis on the psychology of creativity, she enrolled in the scenography department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, graduating in 1984. She then decided to devote herself to theatre and moved to Paris with Krzysztof Warlikowski.

In the museum world, she designed the exhibition scenography for Opéra Monde at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2019 and Around Us a Sea of Fire: The Fate of Jewish Civilians During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw in 2023. She is the Artistic Director of the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw. In 2021, she received the Opera Award for Best Designer of the Year.

At the Paris Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride (2006); The Makropulos Case (2007); Parsifal (2008); King Roger (2009); Bluebeard’s Castle / La Voix humaine (2015); Don Carlos (2017); Don Carlo (2019); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2019); A Quiet Place (2022); Hamlet (2023).

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