Alan Hranitelj

Alan Hranitelj was born in Zagreb, studied there at the University of Fine Arts and has lived since 1985 in Slovenia. His work encompasses around 400 costume designs for theatre, opera, ballet, film and television. In the early 1990s he worked as a fashion designer and designed haute couture collections in Milan.
His works can be found in the collections of the National Museum of Slovenia, the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana and the Maribor Regional Museum. He has been awarded many prizes in Slovenia and abroad.
Many of his works have been shown in exhibitions in Ljubljana, including at the Museum of Modern Art in 1991, at the Equrna Gallery (Bag & 12 Hats) in 1993 and in 1995 at the City Art Gallery (Costume Designs 1991–1995). In 2006 the International Centre of Graphic Arts dedicated a solo exhibition (with accompanying monograph) to him entitled Costume Design: 1986–2006; in 2009 the National Museum did the same with Autumn – Winter. His international successes include exhibitions in Copenhagen (European Capital of Culture 1996), at the Cultural Centre Nansen Araujo in Belo Horizonte (1997) and at the Millennium Dome in London (2000).
From 2007 he designed costumes for the Canadian company Cirque du Soleil’s show Zarkana, which received its premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York in June 2011 and ran continuously from November 2012 to April 2016 at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas.
Alan Hranitelj works with various international theatre, film and video directors, among them Mateja Koležnik, Valentina Turcu, Vinko Möderndorfer, Vito Taufer, Meta Hočevar, Eduard Miler, Diego de Brea, Matjaž Berger, Janez Burger, Matjaž Zupančič and Miran Zupančič. In autumn 2019 he designed costumes for Martin Kušej’s production of Die Hermansschlacht: the opening production of Kušej’s first season as director of the Vienna Burgtheater. In 2022 he worked with Katerina Evangelatos on Rigoletto at the Greek National Opera and with Krešimir Dolenčić on Die Fledermaus at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, and in 2023 he worked with Vinko Mödendorfer on Eugene Onegin at the Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana.