Curator: Bohdan Polishchuk
Liudmyla Nagorna
Stage designer, Honored Artist of Ukraine
Was born in Lviv.
Graduated from T.G. Shevchenko State Art High School and Kyiv Art Institute (now the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture). Professional teachers: People’s Artist of Ukraine D. Lider, Honored Artist of Ukraine I. Bychenkova.
Since 1985, she has been participating in art exhibitions, working in the area of scenography and costume design, spatial textile, easel painting. In the same year she starts working as a production designer at the Kyiv Municipal Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet for Children and Youth (“Kyiv Opera”), from 1992-2020 – as a chief artist.
Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1989.
Member of the National Union of Theater Artists of Ukraine since 2003.
Honored Artist of Ukraine since 2008.
Winner of the D.D. Lider award, 2015.
From 2005-2011 she lectures at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in the Department of Scenography and Screen Arts subject «Costume modeling in space». Since 2021 she holds the position of the Head of the Department of Scenography and Screen Arts until now.
She produced scenografy and costumes more than 40 opera, ballet and dramatic performances in theaters of Kyiv and Ukraine. One of the notable last performances – on the stage of the Odessa National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet – “L’elisir d’amore” by G. Donizetti, 2016, on the stage of the «Kyiv Opera» – Yu. Shevchenko’s opera “King Thrushbeard “, 2018 and H. Donizetti’s opera “Viva La Mamma!” (“Viva La Mamma! Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage “), 2019.
Permanent participant of Ukrainian and international art exhibitions. In particular, the solo exhibition, the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Gallery “Artist” “Nobody Sees the World Through Your Eyes”, 2019.
