Aino Laberenz - Costume and set designer
Tuesday, 1st December, 7:00 PM

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For me, art is an essential part of society. Part of the system or part of people.

It is important to produce art, to open it or to keep it open and thereby move closer together and not leave a topic like Corona just to the media.

For me art is a free space, a space for hope and dreams.

What do the current restrictions mean and what will they change for me personally? Does the current situation change the view of art?

Where do I get hope; what gives me energy; What can I do myself?

Aino Laberenz, born in Turku, works as a costume designer and supported e.g. the Schauspielhaus Zurich, the Volksbühne Berlin, the Vienna Burgtheater, the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Opera in Manaus / Brazil, the Bayreuth Festival, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the State Opera Berlin. Aino Laberenz has been part of Christoph Schlingensief's team since 2004 and has been managing director of Christoph Schlingensief's Operndorf Afrika since 2010. Together with the curator Susanne Gaensheimer, she designed the German pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 and was awarded the Golden Lion for this.

In addition to her work for the theater, Aino Laberenz designed various exhibitions, including Kunst-Werke Berlin and MoMA PS1 New York. She is the editor of Schlingensief's biography, "I know, it was me" and the book "No wrong word now", both published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch.

Each Prada Possible Conversation will also result in a donation from Prada to UNESCO, whose work during the COVID-19 pandemic focuses on the importance of culture, creativity, and education for over 1.5 billion students worldwide affected by school and university closure, as well as on a programme to increase international cooperation in science. Supporting their initiatives across the globe, this is a further demonstration of the vital exchange between fashion and society.