About Elena Popova
Elena Popova started experimenting with mixing different media within the borders of the scenography context while studying Time-based design, in the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen, the Netherlands.
She has worked for dance companies and created autonomous works herself. This fascination in creating new environments and characters brought her in to the study in Weissensee Art Academy in Berlin where she graduated MA Stage and costume design in 2025.
My Journey
Elena Popova is based in Berlin and works as an independent designer in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands on verious opera, dance, theatre projects and site- specific performances.
In her search for aesthetic and conceptual unity, she researches and combines the multicultural, ambivalent perceptions of the stage art and tries to create a storytelling within her stages and costumes which can support and enrich the play and the director's vision.
Work Experience
Peter Grimes, Stage design assistant
Migrantenexpress, Costume design
L'Orfeo, Semifinal RING Award 25, Stage design
La notte/ Il segreto, Stage and costume design
Bang Bang Baroque Movie, Stage assistant
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stage and costume design
Idomeneo, Stage design
The Pose, Stage adaptation
Stages of Crisis, Stage design assistant
Life Forces, Solo exhibition
Before/After, Video assistant
Killerwave, Set design
The Others, Video design
Brave New World 2.0, Stage design assistant
What's up with the Ranevskis, Stage design
Ballade of Omy Wise, Light design assistant
Through the Valley, Stage design
Hesitation on loc.16, Performance and concept
October 2025
July 2025
January 2025
November 2024
October 2022
May 2022
December 2021
August 2021
May 2021
July 2020
March 2020
July 2019
July 2019
March 2019
January 2019
November 2018
July 2018
May 2018