Serge von Arx

Serge von Arx is an architect who graduated from ETH Zurich, a professor and artistic director of the scenography department at the Academy of Performing Arts (at Østfold University College), and an adjunct professor at the Danish National School of Performing Arts.

In 1998, he began his long-standing collaboration with Robert Wilson on more than 50 theater, exhibition, and design projects around the world (including at La Scala, the Berliner Ensemble, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Mori Art Center Gallery in Tokyo, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and others), and he serves as a mentor and architectural consultant at The Watermill Center on Long Island, New York.

In 2001, he opened his own design studio in Berlin, and he has lived in Oslo since 2006. Between 1998 and 2009, he also wrote regularly for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Serge von Arx teaches, publishes, leads workshops, and works internationally as a set designer, designer, and architect, engaging in both practice and research with a focus on performative architecture—the intersection and fusion of theater and architecture.

In 2019, von Arx was a visiting lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts in the Master’s Program in Curatorial Studies.

He curated the architecture section of the Prague Quadrennial 2015 and served on the curatorial board for PQ 2019. He is a member of various boards, notably the Norwegian Program for Artistic Development and the Scandinavian Artistic Research Journal VIS.

In the spring of 2022, Serge will serve as set designer for Kilden *Heimanifrå – på høge hæle* in June. This is the eleventh production von Arx has created in collaboration with director Runar Hodne.