Galya Solodovnikova

Galya Solodovnikova graduated with distinction from Moscow State Textile University (Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design) in 2003 and from London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (Master of Arts in Scenography) in 2005.

She designed sets and costumes for Traces (2005) at Cochrane Theatre, The Trunk (2006) at Battersea Art Centre, Black Dog (2009) at the Pleasance Theatre, and Flamingo Feather Physical Theatre, Marius von Mayenburg’s Parasites (2002) at the Meyerhold Theatre Centre, Viktor Pelevin’s Shlem.com (2005) at the Theatre Centre «Na Strastnom», Pavel Pryazhko’s Chukchis, and Linor Goralik’s Agatha Returning Home (2009, co-production with the theatre «Praktika») at the «Stage-Molot», Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Uncle’s Dream (2010) at the «Teatr-Teatr» in Perm, Field (2010) by Pryazhko at the School of Modern Drama, Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel (2011) and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (2016) at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, von Mayenburg’s The Stone (2013), Shakespeare. The Labyrinth (2014), and Game based on the Schaeffer’s play (2018) at the Theatre of Nations, Exhibit Item / Awakening (2014) at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, Wagner’s Tannhäuser (2014) at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, Earth (2015) after the film by Alexander Dovzhenko at the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, Tishchenko’s Yaroslavna (The Eclipse) (2017) at the Mariinsky Theatre, Verdi’s Rigoletto (2017) at the Opernhaus Wuppertal, Isadora (2018) to the music by Prokofiev’s Cinderella at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and others.

Her works for the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre are the project La voix humaine (2011), Dusapin’s Medeamaterial, and Batin’s The Malachite Casket — both in 2012, Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann (2015), Stravinsky’s Petrushka (2017).

She has been group and private exhibitions in London, Moscow, Berlin, Bilbao, Vilnius, Sao Paulo, Athens, St. Petersburg, Edinburgh, and Bristol.