About

Born in 1993 in Podgorica (Montenegro), Katarina is a visual artist, costume designer, and set designer based in Milan. After completing her undergraduate and master’s studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, in the department of scenography and costume design for film and theatre (2017), she began her professional career as an assistant to Academy Award–winning costume designer Franca Squarciapino. Following this collaboration, she embarked on her independent artistic career and, to date, has signed more than 40 projects in theatre, opera, and film. She has collaborated with numerous established directors in Italy, Spain, France, and Montenegro. Among the artists she has worked with are Filippo Dini, Valerio Binasco, Serena Sinigaglia, Richard Flood, Ryan W. Harris, Carlos Martín, Andro Martinović, and Dejan Projkovski, among others. Among the projects that stand out are: The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, directed by Serena Sinigaglia (Teatro Bellini, Naples, 2016); Macbeth by William Shakespeare, directed by Serena Sinigaglia (Teatro Stabile di Bolzano, 2018); Antigone by Sophocles, directed by Gigi Dall’Aglio (Teatro Elfo Puccini, Milan); Europa su Marte, directed by Spanish director Carlos Martín (Teatro Principal, Zaragoza, 2019); the opera Alcina by George Frideric Handel, directed by Serena Sinigaglia (Opéra National de Lorraine, France, 2020); The Spank by the award-winning writer Hanif Kureishi, directed by Filippo Dini (Teatro Stabile di Torino, 2020); the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet, directed by Serena Sinigaglia (Teatro Goldoni, Livorno, 2022); Dulan la sposa, directed by Valerio Binasco (Teatro Stabile di Torino, 2022); The Suppliants by Euripides, directed by Serena Sinigaglia (Teatro Carcano, Milan, 2023), a production that won the Hystrio Critics’ Award for Best Production in Italy in 2023; and Les Parents Terribles by Jean Cocteau, directed by Filippo Dini (Teatro Stabile del Veneto), for which she was a finalist for the Premio delle Maschere del Teatro Italiano in 2025.

She is the recipient of two national awards: the Italian “Claudio Abbado” Award (2015) for Best Film Costume Design and the “Bućko Radonjić” Award (2014) in her native Montenegro. She was also the finalist for the prestigious Italian theatre award “Premio delle Maschere del Teatro Italiano” in 2025.

For the past three years she has worked as a lecturer at the Accademia Costume & Moda in Milan, and she also collaborates with the institutions Dar Al-Hekma and the Piccolo Opera Festival in Gorizia (Italy).