Sophie Thammer
studio for scenography
Sophie Thammer works as an interdisciplinary and transmedia artist, scenographer and costume designer.
In her work, she mainly deals with structures in text and music, which she transfers to visual worlds with the help of transformation processes.
Her work ranges from painting & drawing to installations, costumes and spatial concepts for exhibitions, film, theatre and opera productions.
Since 2024 she works as a freelance scenographer and has been a member of Szenografie-Bund.
In 2025 she co-founded together with Sihua Ren, Tian Fu and Xinyue Hu the Eremita-Collective to investigate transdisciplinary approaches to art and nature.
education:
Sophie completed her magister degree with honors in scenography (stage and costume design, film and exhibition architecture) at the University Mozarteum Salzburg
2022-2023 she was a guest student (Erasmusprogram) at the Sandberg Instituut/Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam as part of the Re:master Opera collective
scholarships:
2025-2027 she is a scholarship holder at Akademie Musiktheater Heute in the field of stage and costume design.
2025 she has been awarded a scholarship from Land Salzburg for the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg
2018 & 2022 she was a scholarship holder of the Michelangelo Foundation for the international craft and design festival “Homo Faber” in Venice. Here she worked for India Mahdavi and Robert Wilson, among others, as a cultural mediator.
© Felicitas Stecher
further experience:
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Currently she is working as a stage design assistant at Bayerische Staatsoper & Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich.
2023-2024 she worked as a stage design assistant to Katrin Nottrodt for ‘Orestie I-IV’ (directed by Nicolas Stemann) at Thalia Theater Hamburg and Salzburger Festspiele
2019-2023 she was part of the steering board of “Spot On MozART- Innovative Musicfilms’ in the field of visual arts