Niki Psyhogiou
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
She is a set & costume designer with perennial experience in the theatre industry. She studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens and Performance Design at the University of the Arts London, while possessing a comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of fashion design, pattern and styling. Key moments in her career include the play Electra (2018), the modern Greek musical Haunted (2019) and the operas Orfeo (2017) and Juditha Triumphans (2021). The common features of her work are the iconoclastic approach, aesthetic harmony and functional staging of the space and costumes. Through her work, she seeks to explore the possibilities of artistic creation in the theatre space, combining traditional and innovative approaches to costume design and set design and creating a dialogue with the audience. She aims to harmoniously blend tradition and modern art, as she perceives the field of costume and set design as an area of artistic experimentation and transformation. She believes in the power of beauty to liberate and revive and the exploration of this captivating force is the main axis of her work.
March 2021. A new world already started. Social restrictions, distance, time and space at a standstill. The performance invites the audience to reconsider the main ideas of the 1821 Greek Revolution, two hundred years later. Identity, community, territory, nation, history, rebellion, death, life. The performance proved that despite all forms of restrictions, artistic expression is doomed to discover a way out, to find new ways and methods of connection, communication and emotional motivation. Under unprecedented and bizarre circumstances, I had to work on a brutal to the collective consciousness concept raising questions and pointing out ideas on a historically bygone yet timeless historic moment. The set and the costumes conveyed a double message, i.e. the collapse of an oppressive situation and the dawn of a new, sacred, beautiful and extraordinary new world.
Author: Dionyssios Solomos
Original Idea – Direction: Thanos Papakonstantinou
Set & Costume Design: Niki Psyhogiou
Original Composition: Dimitrios Skyllas
Movement: Amalia Kosma
Lighting Design: Christina Thanasoula
Photos: Elina Giounanli
March 2021. A new world already started. Social restrictions, distance, time and space at a standstill. The performance invites the audience to reconsider the main ideas of the 1821 Greek Revolution, two hundred years later. Identity, community, territory, nation, history, rebellion, death, life. The performance proved that despite all forms of restrictions, artistic expression is doomed to discover a way out, to find new ways and methods of connection, communication and emotional motivation. Under unprecedented and bizarre circumstances, I had to work on a brutal to the collective consciousness concept raising questions and pointing out ideas on a historically bygone yet timeless historic moment. The set and the costumes conveyed a double message, i.e. the collapse of an oppressive situation and the dawn of a new, sacred, beautiful and extraordinary new world.
She is a set & costume designer with perennial experience in the theatre industry. She studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens and Performance Design at the University of the Arts London, while possessing a comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of fashion design, pattern and styling. Key moments in her career include the play Electra (2018), the modern Greek musical Haunted (2019) and the operas Orfeo (2017) and Juditha Triumphans (2021). The common features of her work are the iconoclastic approach, aesthetic harmony and functional staging of the space and costumes. Through her work, she seeks to explore the possibilities of artistic creation in the theatre space, combining traditional and innovative approaches to costume design and set design and creating a dialogue with the audience. She aims to harmoniously blend tradition and modern art, as she perceives the field of costume and set design as an area of artistic experimentation and transformation. She believes in the power of beauty to liberate and revive and the exploration of this captivating force is the main axis of her work.
Author: Dionyssios Solomos
Original Idea – Direction: Thanos Papakonstantinou
Set & Costume Design: Niki Psyhogiou
Original Composition: Dimitrios Skyllas
Movement: Amalia Kosma
Lighting Design: Christina Thanasoula
Photos: Elina Giounanli
