Aleksandar Denić

Aleksandar Denić (born 31 October 1963, in Belgrade) (outside Serbia frequently spelt Aleksandar Denic) is a Serbian visual artist, stage designer and film production designer. He is known as a scenographer of feature films, as well as for his work at major theatres including Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Bayreuth, Paris, Zurich, Wien, Salzburg, Köln and Munich.

Life Denić graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts of the University of the Arts in Belgrade in painting, film and set design. He worked after graduation mainly as a production designer for film projects, including the film Underground by Emir Kusturica. He was also production designer for over 100 television commercials, for clients including Renault, SAS and Lucky Strike.

In 2011 he met with the German theatre director Frank Castorf, who came to Belgrade for a cooperation project. For his stage set at Castorf's production of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the End of the Night in 2013 at the Munich Residenztheater he won the 2014 theatre critics' poll of Theater heute magazine as "Set designer of the year."

In the year 2013 he worked with Castorf in staging Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Festival.

In 2015, Denić worked at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, and also at the Residenz Theatre, Munich.

Awards 1996: Nominee Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special "Rasputin" 2014: Nominated for Best Designer at International Opera Awards 2014: "Set designer of the year" (Theater heute magazine) for Journey to the End of Night, Residenztheater, Munich 2014: Der Faust in the category "Staging and costume". 2014: "Stage designer of the year" (Opernwelt magazine) for Der Ring des Nibelungen, Bayreuth Festival 2015: "Set designer of the year" (Theater heute magazine) for Baal, Residenztheater, Munich 2020: Nominated for Best Designer at International Opera Awards

Filmography

1995: Underground 1996: Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny 2001: Boomerang 2001: Super 8 Stories 2002: Deathwatch 2004: Falling into Paradise 2006: Guca! 2008: 2009: Zone of the Dead 2012: Cat Run 2012: Chernobyl Diaries 2014: Travelator