Costume designer

Born in Novi Sad in 1945.
Graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade (Costume Design Dept.), Class of Prof. Dušan Ristić. Works as a costume designer at the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. Her output counts more than 100 productions at the theatre, on TV Novi Sad and in the theatres of Skopje, Maribor and Osijek. She exhibited at many group exhibitions.
Individual exhibitions: Novi Sad (7), Isny (Germany) and New York.
Award: University award for costume, Belgrade (1969); Award for costume design, Belgrade (1969); Award for costume design, October Salon, Belgrade (1972); Award for costume design, Forma VI, Novi Sad (1977); Award for costume design, Forma VIII, Novi Sad (1983); Award for costume design, Comedy Festival, Svetozarevo/Jagodina (1987).
The Melancholy of a Scene, combined technique, 70x90, 1998

 

The transcendental realm of the stage. Focusing on a different reality, on fiction characters, characters from a box space, giving at the same time illusion of infinity. Infinity and timelessness, re-questioning the world of illusions… The curtain falls and rises again. Spotlights turn off and on again. False doors, arcades and walls move, and the window guides your look towards the dark audience. Pillars, stairways and spotlights, revealing everything and hiding everything, are maybe components of a trap in which the characters are situated, and which provides the only possible space, the only existence for them. Stage as a challenge, stage as space filled with dazzling light, or with mysterious fog and shadows of illusion. The world that Mirjana Stojanović-Maurić is trying to decipher is complicated and puzzling. It is maybe the surrogate  of  another world, chaotic and real, which does not offer the solution either. Fragments of the stage illusion may offer solutions unknown to her, solutions that may exist. However, Mirjana avoids explanations, because explanations in works of art mean the destruction of the magic world of intimacy. The theatre is maybe a mask hiding the real face of dramas, visions, memories, recollections. (Idealized world in the slow swaying of the fan). Should we break the enchanted (theatre) circle or leave the masks of the Great Secret?

Address (home): Bate Brkića 32, 21000 Novi Sad, Phone: +381 21 395 096
studio – Petrovaradinska tvrđava, Hornverk, atelje 20, Phone: +381 21 432 164