Tatyana van Walsum

Tatyana van Walsum works as a costume and set designer for ballet, theatre, opera and film. Her collaborations with the choreographers Krzysztof Pastor, Dominique Dumais, Kevin O’Day, Juanjo Arqués and Wubkje Kuindersma have led to engagements with the Dutch and Polish National Ballets, Stuttgart Ballet, the Mannheim National Theatre, the National Ballet of Canada, Australian Ballet, Scottish Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm and the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago.  

Recent projects include Dominique Dumais’s dance piece Alice im Wunderland at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg and Wubkje Kuindersma’s production Anatomy of Light in Amsterdam. She has also recently worked with Martino Müller and Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague, with Peter Schaufuss for La Scala, Milan, and the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, with Cathy Marston and the Royal Ballet in London and with Annabelle Lopez Ochoa in Philadelphia and Amsterdam.  

At the Aarhus Festival Tatyana van Walsum created set and costume designs for Nigel Warrington’s production of Così fan tutte, which was awarded the Danish Reumert Prize for theatre. She also designed costumes for Demis Volpi’s production of Don Giovanni at the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar and for Bluebeard’s Castle in Káel Csaba’s production at the Lithuanian National Theatre, and designed sets and costumes for Philip Glass’s Akhnaten in Giuseppe Spota’s production in Dortmund. For 15 years she has worked with the Dutch music-theatre group Orkater.  

Along with her work in the theatre, Tatyana van Walsum also regularly designs exhibitions, among them Maison Amsterdam at the Nieuwe Kerk, Fashion Statements at the Amsterdam Museum, and exhibitions about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Anna Pavlovna, Wilhelm II and Grace Kelly at the Palais Het Loo in Apeldoorn. Most recently she designed the exhibition Royal Embroidery for the Textile Museum in Tilburg.