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Danyіla Kolot
theatre and cinema production designer
Born in 1992. The name of the scenic designer Danyila Kolot is often mentioned in connection with high-profile theatre performances that are critically acclaimed and receive awards. Her artistic solutions are always original and filled with deep meanings. The figurative vocabulary of the performances created by the artist does not contain object realistic scenography, but rather is saturated with individual images and elements of archetypes. In creative tandem with director Davyd Petrosyan, she created such well-known performances as Cassandra by Lesia Ukrainka (2021), The Visit (2023), The Servant of Two Masters (2024) at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre. Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre, The Land by Olga Kobylianska at the Maria Zankovetska National Academic Drama Theatre (2023), Othello by William Shakespeare at the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Drama Theatre (2024).
Artworks
Biography
Education:
In 2018, she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture with a degree in Fine Arts, Decorative Arts, and Restoration. Qualification by diploma: theatre, film and television set designer, researcher, teacher. At the Academy, he studied with Oleksandr Burlin, Fedor Aleksandrovych, and then in the workshop of Serhii Masloboishchikov.
Teaching experience:
Since 2019, she has been a lecturer at the Department of Scenography and Cinema Scenography of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, disciplines: scenography and cinema scenography, basics of scenography and layout technique, modern scenography and film process, basics of scenography.
She began working in the theatre in her second year of study at the Academy. ‘Freken Julie’ at the Young Theatre was one of the artist's first performances. For a year she worked at the Dnipro Youth Theatre and for another year with independent theatres. After that, she experimented on the stage of the Suzirya Theatre with director Serhii Kornienko. In creative tandem with director Davyd Petrosyan, she created performances at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre, the Maria Zankovetska National Academic Drama Theatre, and the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Drama Theatre. In Danyіla Kolot's productions, each element requires individual comprehension and personal reflection on the action. The viewer sees a space full of details and images. For example, in the play The Visit, there are no details of everyday life or specifics of the scene, but hints and allusions to universal human weaknesses, complexes and reflections.
Performances:
Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre, Kyiv. Kyiv: production designer, costume designer for Cassandra by Lesia Ukrainka, directed by Davyd Petrosyan (2021), production designer for The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt, based on the play The Visit of an Old Lady, directed by Davyd Petrosyan, costume designer Natalia Rudyuk (2023), production designer, costume designer for Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, directed by Davyd Petrosyan (2024)
Kyiv Academic Workshop of Theatre Art ‘Suzirya’: a joint project of scenography and costumes with Oksana Bas for the performance ‘The Theatre of Miracles’ by Cervantes, directed by Serhii Kornienko (2017)
National Academic Drama Theatre named after Maria Zankovetska, Lviv: production designer, costume designer for the play ‘Earth’ based on the novel by Olha Kobylianska, directed by Davyd Petrosyan (2023), production designer, costume designer for the play ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ by Edmond Rostand, directed by Davyd Petrosyan, music by Davyd Petrosyan, plastic design by Olha Goldys (2025), costume designer for Lesia Ukrainka's play ‘The Fireplace Master‘, directed by Serhii Masloboishchykov (2025)
National Academic Drama Theatre named after Lesya Ukrainka, Kyiv: production designer, costume designer for Othello by William Shakespeare, directed by Davyd Petrosyan (2024)
Dnipro Academic Youth Theatre: set and costume design for the play Stolen Happiness by Ivan Franko, directed by Volodymyr Denysenko (2017), set and costume design for the play Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni (2016)
Kyiv National Academic Drama Young Theatre: production designer, costume designer for August Strindberg's Fräulein Julie, directed by Serhii Kornienko (2015)
Wild Theatre, Kyiv: costumes for the performance ‘Asses, cops, money, women’ based on the play by John Webster ‘Duchess of Amalfi, directed by Maksym Holenko, set design by Fedir Aleksandrovych (2015)
Participant of the ‘Class Act’ project, set design and costumes for the plays ‘Someone Else's Body’ and ‘The Story of a Fat Girl’ (2017)
Production designer of the short film Lonely Cancer, directed by Valeriia Kalchenko (2020)
Exhibitions:
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2024 - participation in three exhibitions of the project “Ukrainian Theater Costume of the XX-XXI Centuries: Identity, Context, Landscape” at the Dzyga Art Center Gallery (Lviv), the Rozdroża Center for Intercultural Creative Initiatives Gallery (Lublin), and the Museum of Theater, Music, and Cinema (Kyiv). The project is supported by the UCF and the Ukrainian Institute.
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2023 - participant of the exhibition ‘Scenography. Invasion Factor’. Scenography Gallery, Lviv.
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2022 - participant of the Triennial of Scenography named after Danylo Lider at the Central House of Artists, Kyiv.
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2022 - participant in the exhibition ‘Danylo Lider Triennialе of Scenography: to continue’ at the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine, Kyiv
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2021 - Exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Lesia Ukrainka's birth, Exhibition Hall of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre, Kyiv. Kyiv.
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2019 - Danylo Lider Triennial of Scenography, National Museum ‘Kyiv Art Gallery’. Kyiv.
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2018 - Danylo Lider Triennial of Scenography, Scenography Gallery, Lviv.
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2014 - exhibition of scenography ‘Women in Art’, theatre centre ‘Pasika’. Kyiv.
International exhibitions:
In 2018, she participated in the Third Youth Theatre Forum of the Commonwealth, Baltic States and Georgia. Yerevan, Armenia.
In 2019 - in the international youth theatre exchange ‘Bonding in Europe’. Switzerland, Basel.
Awards:
Danyila Kolot received the Kyiv Pectoral 2023 award for the best scenography in the play The Visit, Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre.
In 2021, Lesya Ukrainka's Cassandra at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre was included in the longlist of the V All-Ukrainian Theatre Festival and Award ‘GRA’.
