Aleksandar Denić

Aleksandar Denić (born 31 October 1963, in Belgrade) is a Serbian visual artist, stage designer and film production designer. He is known as a scenographer of feature films, as well as for his work at major theatres and opera houses including Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bayreuth, Paris, Zurich, Wien, Salzburg, Köln, Munich, Geneva, Athens. Denić graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts of the University of the Arts in Belgrade in painting, film and set design.

He worked after graduation mainly as a production designer for film projects, including the film Underground by Emir Kusturica. From 2011 closely collaborate with Frank Castorf. In the past decade, he became one of the busiest European scenographers. In his visual interpretations of dramatic texts, the scene becomes a peculiar and elaborate semiotic system that considers postmodernism through artistic means, everyday life, history, identity, the relationship between the theatrical and the media spectacle, as well as social tasks and opportunities of art itself. It is for this reason that Denić’s stage designs represent some of the most successful and critically acclaimed European and global visual dramaturgies that self-consciously explore their own communication potentials.

He is the recipient of numerous awards.