Mag.^a art. Kathrin Kemp, Stage Designer
Lektorin für Stage Design and Stage Technology
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Born in Graz, Kathrin Kemp lives and works as a scenographer in Vienna. After studying at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, she worked as an assistant at the Burgtheater, the Theater Basel and the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. She was assistant to the technical director at the Theater in der Josefstadt and has been a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna since 2015.

At the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, she developed costumes and stage designs for Kabale und Liebe (2020), Hedda Gabler (2022) and Der zerbrochene Krug (2023) – all three directed by Thomas Oliver Niehaus. In 2021, she designed the stage set for Solaris by Dai Fujikura and worked with Helen Malkowsky for the Neue Oper Wien. Other works include demut vor deinen taten baby (stage design) at the Theater in der Josefstadt, directed by Florian Thiel, and the set design for Erdbeerland by Florian Pochlatko, which was awarded the Austrian Film Prize. She has collaborated on theatre projects with Raimund Orfeo Voigt (Der Einsame Weg, Theater in der Josefstadt), Simon Sramek and Dominique Wiesbauer (Dido und Aeneas, Neue Studiobühne) and Bernhard Hammer (De Opstand, Willem van Oranje). She was the designer for the exhibition Foodprints at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology, designed displays for video works by toxic dreams in the exhibition After the End and Before the Beginning at the Theatermuseum Wien (2021), designed shop windows and sets (including for the fashion label Hermès and the beverage brand Kalê) and, together with the architectural firm Kawa, developed the exhibition design for Science Fiction(s) –
If There Were a Tomorrow at the Weltmuseum Wien.

She has been teaching students stage design and stage technology at the Institute for Singing and Music Theatre since the winter semester of 2025.

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Translated with deepl.com-25.02.2026