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Natalia Rydvanetska
theatre and stage costume designer, graphic artist
Born in 1969 in Boryslav, Lviv region. The artist's main stage is the Taras Shevchenko Cherkasy Music and Drama Theatre.
She collaborates with her husband, scenic designer Serhii Rydvanetskyi, in almost all productions. Their performances are extremely successful on the stages of Kyiv, Kherson, and Mykolaiv. The duo of artists is almost self-sufficient: he creates scenography, she creates costumes for the performance. Her works are characterised by exquisite imagery of silhouettes and rhythmic colours in the stage space.
Artworks
Biography
Education:
From 1987 to 1992, she studied at the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (now the Lviv National Academy of Arts), Department of Fashion Modelling.
From 1998 to 2003 she was a costume designer at the Lviv Regional Music and Drama Theatre named after Yuriy Drohobych. Since 2003 - costume designer of the Cherkasy Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre named after Taras Shevchenko.
She has created costumes for more than 100 performances in 17 theatres in Ukraine. Works in the field of graphics and stage costume. She is the author of costumes for dance and choral groups and performers.
Performances:
Cherkasy Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre named after Taras Shevchenko: costume designer for the performance ‘The Great Cellar’ by Taras Shevchenko/Oleksandr Dzekun, directed by Oleksandr Dzekun, choreographed by Volodymyr Tatarynov (2003), costume designer for the performance ‘Ferdydurke’ by Witold Gombrowicz, directed by Serhiy Proskurnia, choreographed by Volodymyr Tatarynov (2004), costume designer for the performance ‘Taras’ Tetralogy, Bohdan Stelmakh, directed by Serhiy Proskurnia, choreographed by Volodymyr Tatarynov (2012), costume designer for Stolen Happiness by Ivan Franko, directed by Stanislav Sadakliyev, choreographed by Ruslan Lysinsky (2021), costume designer for Rhinos by Eugène Yonesco, directed by Stanislav Sadakliyev, choreographed by Ruslan Lysinsky (2022)
Kolomyia Academic Regional Ukrainian Drama Theatre named after Ivan Ozarkevych: costume designer for the performance ‘Viy’ by Mykola Gogol, directed by Serhii Pavliuk, plastic director Olga Semoshkina (2006)
Kherson Regional Academic Music and Drama Theatre named after M. Kulish: costume designer for the performance ‘The Terrible Revenge’ by Mykola Gogol, directed by Serhii Pavliuk, choreographed by Yurii Buss (2009), costume designer for the performance ‘Eternity and One Day’ by Milorad Pavych, directed by Serhii Pavliuk (2022)
Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theatre: costume designer for Marusya Churai by Lina Kostenko, directed by Serhiy Pavliuk, choreographed by Yuriy Buss (2018)
Luhansk Regional Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre, Sievierodonetsk: costume designer for the performance Who Am I? by Mariusa von Mayenburg, directed by Stanislav Sadakliiev, choreographed by Natalia Ryzhkova (2022).
Participant in projects:
2023 - Ukrainian National Pavilion ‘Garden of Living Things’ at the Prague Quadrennial, Prague, Czech Republic
2020 - Ukrainian pavilion at the Tbilisi Biennale of Scenography
Exhibitions:
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2024 - participation in three exhibitions of the project ‘Ukrainian theatre costume of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Identity, context, landscape’ at the gallery of the Dzyga Art Centre (Lviv), the gallery of the Centre for Intercultural Creative Initiatives ‘Rozdroża’ (Lublin), and the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema (Kyiv). The project is supported by the UCF and the Ukrainian Institute
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2023 - participant in the exhibition ‘Ukraine and the Prague Quadrennial’ at the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine, Kyiv
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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 Triennial of Scenography: to continue’ at the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine, Kyiv
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2022 - participation in the exhibition Forum during the war UAScenography, Institute of Contemporary Art, Kyiv
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2021 - participation in the exhibition ‘Common Space’ at the Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2021 (Lviv Quadriennale of Scenography 2021. Evolution through revolution), Scenography Gallery / Lem Station, Lviv
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2019 - Personal exhibition ‘Scenography. Theatre Costume. Serhiy and Natalka Rydvanetsky’, Scenography Gallery, Lviv
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2019 - Personal exhibition ‘Scenography. Theatre Costume. Serhiy and Natalka Rydvanetsky’, Kobzar Museum, Cherkasy
Awards / memberships:
Head of the Cherkasy branch of the National Union of Theatre Workers of Ukraine, Member of the National Union of Theatre Workers of Ukraine. Nominee (as a member of the production team of the play ‘Terrible Revenge’) for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 2010.
