About

Katarina Vukčević (Montenegro, 1993) is a Milan-based visual artist.

Her work spans theater, opera, cinema, and the visual arts, disciplines in which she has designed sets and costumes for over forty international productions and projects across Italy, France, Spain, Montenegro, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kazakhstan. Following her studies in Set and Costume Design for Cinema and Theater at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she began her professional career by collaborating with Oscar-winning costume designer Franca Squarciapino. Her accolades include the Claudio Abbado Award for Best Cinematic Costume (Italy, 2015) and the Bućko Radonjić Award (Montenegro, 2014). She also worked on Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, a winning project of the 2024 OperaLombardia competition, directed by Marialuisa Baffuno.

Her most significant works include: Jean Cocteau’s Les Parents Terribles, directed by Filippo Dini (Teatro Stabile del Veneto), a production for which she was a finalist at the 2025 Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano Awards; Euripides’ The Suppliant Women (Le Supplici), directed by Serena Sinigaglia (Teatro Carcano in Milan), winner of the Hystrio Critics’ Award for Best Show of the Year 2023; Georg Friedrich Händel’s opera Alcina at the Opéra National de Lorraine in France; Georges Bizet’s Carmen at the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno; Hanif Kureishi’s The Spank, directed by Filippo Dini; Dulan la sposa, directed by Valerio Binasco; and William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor, both directed by Serena Sinigaglia. She is currently working on her solo exhibition Who Are You When No One Is Watching, an installation-based project to be hosted by the National Museum of Montenegro in 2027. Her original projects include the short film Sworn Virgin (Vergine Giurata), which she wrote and codirected. Additionally, she served as Art Director for the multidisciplinary projects KIN, Angel, and Natura ed Artificio, hosted by the Teatro Fontana in Milan from 2023 to 2026.

Her artistic research explores the relationship between identity, memory, body, and representation through mediums ranging from installation to performance, and from costume to scenic imagery. Parallel to her work in theater and opera, she develops cinematic research, which has led her to collaborate with Montenegrin director Andro Martinović on the film At Noon, the Gun and with Irish director Ryan W. Harris on the film 32 Carati, which has been screened and selected at various international film festivals.

She is a lecturer at the Accademia Costume & Moda (ACM) – AFOL in Milan and collaborates with international institutions such as Dar Al-Hekma, the Piccolo Opera Festival Gorizia. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with some of the most influential directors on the contemporary scene, including Serena Sinigaglia, Filippo Dini, Valerio Binasco, Carlos Martín, Richard Flood, Ryan W. Harris, Andro Martinović, and Dejan Projkovski, among others.