Colin Walker (set designer)

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Colin Walker (born July 26, 1956 in London ) is a set designer and freelance artist .

Stage sets

Colin Walker, born in London, grew up in Switzerland and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . This was followed by assistance at the Schauspielhaus Zürich and at the Münchner Kammerspiele , with Gerd Heinz , Dieter Dorn , Jürgen Rose , George Tabori , Werner Herzog and Roland Topor , among others .

Since 1986 he has worked as a set designer in Germany , Austria and Switzerland. a. active as a stage / costume designer; his places of work include u. a. the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Grand Opéra Genève , the Bavarian State Theater , the Munich Volkstheater , the Städtische Bühnen Heidelberg , the Wuppertaler Bühnen , the Nationaltheater Mannheim , the Theater am Turm , the Schauspiel Frankfurt , the Theater Freiburg, the Theater Bremen , the Thalia Theater Hamburg , the Lucerne Theater , the State Theater Stuttgart , the Leipzig Opera, the Bonn Opera and the German Theater Berlin . He worked with directors Siegfried Bühr , Christoph Biermeier , Peer Martiny , Jean-Claude Kuner , Peter Henning , Alfred Kirchner , Ulrich Matthes , Vera Sturm and the composer and director Patrick Schimanski .

Colin Walker has been a professor at the HsH - Hochschule Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2002, since (2002) for the fields of media interior design and scenography, BA - scenography - costume course.

Teaching activities

HfG Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, stage design course (1996)

HsH - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, professorship for the subject areas, media room design and scenography, BA - scenography - costume course, (since 2002)

Hiroshima City University Japan (2009)

École supérieure de théâtre - UQAM Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada (2013)

HZT Inter-University Center for Dance in Berlin (since 2014 as guest lecturer) in the MA choreography course, course director Wanda Golonka

Production design / exhibitions / installations / performances

  • Production design Colin Walker: The Last Volume , directed by Jean-Claude Kuner and Peter Henning, with Curt Bois and Sunnyi Melles, invitations to festivals: Berlinale Forum (1990) and The Media Art - Exit Art Gallery, NYC (1991)
  • Exhibition / installations: Food for the Mind in the Haus der Kunst in Munich (2000)
  • Installations: As part of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, work-in-progress, with students of scenography, artistic director, Colin Walker (2011)
  • Installations: NaTür , object-location relationships with students of scenography for the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, artistic direction, Wanda Golonka and Colin Walker (2012)
  • Installations: Schon Schön , within the framework of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen with students of scenography on the subject of "Heimat Utopia", artistic director, Wanda Golonka and Colin Walker (2013)
  • Installation / Performance EXIT / WASTING TIME Goethe-Institut New York together with Wanda Golonka (2015)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Walker, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British set designer and freelance artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH London