……Venezuelan costume designer, Alexander Djurkov Hotter studied architecture in Berlin before completing his apprenticeship as a tailor in 2015.
……He subsequently worked with the costume designer Moidele Bickel, who became his most influential and valuable artistic mentor. Following his collaboration with Bickel he worked as an assistant to various European theatres and opera houses in productions directed by Luc Bondy, Calixto Bieito, Dieter Dorn, Shirin Neshat, and many more.
……At the Theater Bielefeld he designed the costumes for Mizgin Bilmen’s stagings of Wagner's “Das Rheingold” and for the German premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s “Charlotte Salomon- Leben, oder Theater?”, the latter of which was awarded the “Götz-Freidrich Preis” in 2017. He also worked with her in Bern on Ingeborg Bachmann's “Malina”, and Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus”. In 2017 he also co-designed the costumes for “Edda” at the Norske Teatret in Oslo and “Der Sandmann” at theDüsseldorfer Schauspielhaus together with the American director Robert Wilson.
……His introduction as a designer took place at the Akademietheater in Munich, the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the Theater Freiburg, the IST Festival in Amsterdam, the Theater Dessau, the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Bühnen Bern and the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe in collaboration with the directors Thomas Helmut Heep, Maike Bouschen, Mizgin Bilmen, Florian Fischer and Andreas Rosar.
……In recent years Alexander has had recurring collaborations with directors Michael Schachermaier (Theater Freiburg, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Theater Dessau) as well as with Martin G. Berger. With Berger he designed the costumes for Adams' “Nixon in China” and Rossini's “Il Barbiere Di Siviglia” at the Theater Dortmund, the latter of which earned him two nomination for best design in the “Kritikerumfrage” of Opernwelt Magazine in 2018. Recently he designed the costumes for Berger’s staging of “Ariadne auf Naxos” at the Nationaltheater Weimar, for Thomas Adès' “Powder Her Face” at the Vienna Volksoper, Sondheims “Anyone Can Whistle” at the the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater, “Into the Woods” at Theater Basel, “Kublai Khan” at Theater an der Wien and “Follies” at Volksoper Wien.
……In the current and upcoming season he will be responsible for the designs of two commission works, “Der Rote Wal” at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and “Alles Liebe!” At the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, as well as the re-discovered work “Mazeppa” by French composer Clémence de Grandval at Theater Dortmund.
……He lives and works in Berlin.—
