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Lyudmyla Nahorna

Born in 1958 (Kyiv)

Scenographer, theater and stage costume and textile designer

Acting Head of the Department of Scenography and Screen Arts, National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kyiv

Honored Artist of Ukraine. Member of the National Union of Theater Workers of Ukraine and the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. Laureate of the Danylo Lider Prize of the Kyiv branch of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine “Artist”.

Education

National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Kyiv), Department of Scenography and Screen Arts

Main theatrical performances

1986 – scenographer, costume designer for the ballet “Red Sails”, Vladimir Yurovsky, dir. Heinrich Mayorov, Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

1986 – scenographer, costume designer for the opera “The Golden-Horned Deer”, Oleksandr Kostin, dir. Mykola Merzlikin, Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth 

1987 – scenographer, costume designer for the opera Ivasyk-Telesyk, Kyrylo Stetsenko, directed by Mykola Merzlikin, Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

1988 – scenographer, costume designer for the ballet “Adventures in the Emerald City”, Oleksandr Yakovchuk, ballet director. Heorhiy Kovtun, Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

1988 – scenographer, costume designer for the ballet “The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky, ballet master. Heorhiy Kovtun, Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

1993 – scenographer, costume designer for the ballet The Nutcracker, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, ballet master Heorhiy Kovtun, Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth 

1993 – scenographer, costume designer for the ballet Demon, Alexander Kostin, ballet master Heorhiy Kovtun, Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

1999 – scenographer, costume designer for Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Mykola Merzlikin, Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2001 – scenographer, costume designer for the musical “How the Cossacks Tamed the Serpent”, Igor Poklad, directed by Larysa Mospan-Shulga, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2002 – scenographer, costume designer for the opera “Koshchei the Immortal” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, directed by Mykola Merzlikin, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2002 – set designer, costume designer for the play “Tragicomedy about the Resurrection of the Dead” by Heorhiy Konysky, directed by Andriy Prykhodko, National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko, Kyiv

2003 – scenographer, costume designer for the play Cain, by George Byron, directed by Andriy Prykhodko, National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko, Kyiv

2005 – scenic and costume designer for the play “Natalka Poltavka”, based on Ivan Kotliarevsky and Mykola Lysenko, directed by Oleksandr Anurov, National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko, Kyiv

2006 – scenographer, costume designer for the opera “The Story of Kai and Gerda” by Serhiy Banevych, directed by Larysa Mospan-Shulga, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2006 – scenographer, costume designer for the play “Muscovyada” by Yuriy Andrukhovych, directed by Stanislav Moiseev, Kyiv National Academic Youth Theater 

2007 – costume designer for the play “Aeneid” by Ivan Kotlyarevsky, directed by Oleg Ignatiev, Mykolaiv National Academic Ukrainian Drama and Musical Comedy Theater

2008 – costume designer for the play “The Fourth Sister” by Janusz Głowacki, directed by Stanislav Moiseev, Kyiv National Academic Young Theater

2008 – costume designer for Emma by Yaroslav Stelmakh, based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert “Madame Bovary”, Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theater named after Olga Kobylianska

2008 – costume designer for the play “The Kaidashev Family” by Nechuy-Levytsky, directed by P. Ilchenko, National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko, Kyiv

2009 – costume designer for the play “On Sunday morning I dug herbs…” by Neda Nezhdana after Olga Kobylyanska, directed by D.Chirypiuk, National Drama Theater, Kyiv

2009 – scenographer, costume designer for the opera “The Night Before Christmas” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, directed by Larysa Mospan-Shulsha, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2011 – costume designer for the opera La Traviata by G. Verdi, directed by Vitaliy Palchykov, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2013 – scenographer, costume designer for the comic opera “The Clever Girl” by Carl Orff, directed by Vitaliy Palchykov, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2015 – scenographer, costume designer for the musical “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Zhanna and Lev Kolodub, directed by Vitaliy Palchykov, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2016 – scenic and costume designer for the opera “Love Drink” by Gaetano Donizetti, directed by Oksana Taranenko, Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater

2017 – scenographer, costume designer for the musical “There was a dog…”, Volodymyr Nazarov, directed by Volodymyr Nazarov, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2017 – scenographer, costume designer for the opera La bohème by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Vitaliy Palchykov, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2018 – scenographer, costume designer for the opera “King Drozdoborod” by Yuriy Shevchenko, directed by Dmytro Todoriuk, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth 

2019 – scenic and costume designer for Viva La Mamma! (Long Live Mom, or Theater Order and Disorder) by Gaetano Donizetti, directed by Vitaliy Palchykov, Kyiv Municipal Opera and Ballet Theater for Children and Youth

2023 – costume designer for the opera Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, dir. by Oksana Taranenko, Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Solomiya Krushelnytska

Major exhibitions

1996 – exhibition of theatrical costumes “Carnival in the traditions of the Renaissance”, Gallery “Mykola’s House”, Kyiv

1998 – personal exhibition “Trypillian shirt” textiles, Triptych Gallery, Kyiv

2002 – personal exhibition of sketches of performances and costume designs from the repertoire of the theater, Kyiv Municipal Academic Theater of Opera, Ballet for Children and Youth, Kyiv

2004 – participation in the exhibition “Contemporary Decorative Art of Ukraine”, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris (France)

2007, 2010, 2013, 2019 – participation in the exhibitions of the Triennial of Scenography named after Daniel Leader, National Museum of Kyiv Art Gallery

2014 – VI All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition “Ukraine from Trypillia to the Present in the Images of Contemporary Artists”, Gallery of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Kyiv

2019 – personal exhibition ” Nobody sees the world through your eyes”, Gallery “Artist” of the Kyiv branch of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine

2021 – participation in the international festival Lviv Quadrennial of Scenography 2021 (curator of the project of students scenographers), Scenography Gallery, Lem Station, Lviv

2022 – participation in the creative residency “Ukrainian Scenographers in Georgia” and the Ukrainian pavilion at the Tbilisi Biennale of Stage Design 2022

2022 – Exhibition “UA Scenography 2022” – Gallery of the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv