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Anna Mashkovska
A young Ukrainian set designer and theatre costume designer. Born in 2001.
Education:
Currently in her fifth year at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, studying set design and screen arts under Serhii Masloboychikov.
Major art projects:
Her creative portfolio already includes a number of completed art projects. In 2023, she created the scenography and costumes for the play ‘Croissants with Almonds’ at the Kyiv Academic Workshop of Theatre Arts ‘Suzirya’, directed by Yaroslav Gurevich and Volodymyr Arzazopulo.
In 2024–2025, she worked as an assistant set designer and costume designer for the play Something Strange Happened to Me by Dmytro Sukholitky-Sobchuk at the Maria Zankovetska National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre in Lviv.
In 2025, Anna Mashkovska worked as a set and costume designer for Igor Bilyts' play A Little Drama, based on the novel by Valerian Pidmohylny, staged at the Serhiy Danchenko Chamber Stage of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre in Kyiv.
An important part of her creative activity is participation in exhibition projects:
2025 — participation in the Danylo Lider Triennial of Stage Design “Kyiv School” at the National Museum “Kyiv Art Gallery.”
2025 — participant in the international exhibition "Lviv Quadrennial of Scenography 2025. The Point Changes Space,“ where she presented a model for the play ”A Small Drama" by Igor Bilyts, based on the novel by Valerian Pidmohylny, staged at the Serhiy Danchenko Chamber Stage of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv.
2024 — joined the exhibitions of the project “Ukrainian Theater Costumes of the 20th-21st Centuries. Identity, Context, Landscape” (2024): Dzyga Art Center Gallery (Lviv), Museum of Theater, Music, and Cinema Arts (Kyiv). The project was supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and the Ukrainian Institute. Anna Mashkovska presented costume sketches for her coursework — set design for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The technique used to create the sketches is combined (traditional graphic execution, supplemented and edited using computer graphics). The sketches show the final stage of the costume's transformation during the play. The scenography consists of a glass wall, which, with the help of the characters' actions, is transformed into a space of glass arches and passages. The characters' costumes “tear” as they cling to the sharp corners and chips of the arches. Technically, this effect was to be achieved using Velcro fasteners for clothing and thick synthetic fabric that can hold its shape.
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