Creative Talk #9: From Architecture to Costume Design: A Dialogue with Peny Spanou

Dato: 30.10.25 - kl 1630

Sted: Bjørnådal Arkitektstudio

Vågeveien 7 - Loennechengården

Peny (Pinelopi) Spanou (b.1991) is an artist with a multidisciplinary background; costume design, architecture, and fashion. She holds a Master of Architecture from the National and Technical University of Athens (2017), Fashion diploma at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm (2019), and a Master’s in Costume Design from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2021).

Her practice moves across genres; film, theater, and dance, ranging from large-scale productions such as Harald og Sonja (2025), Blücher (2025), Quisling: The Final Days (2024), to intimate, site-specific works and dance performances including Kaleidoscope (2023-2025), Not my Bones (2024), My Song (2023), and Displaced Shadows (2021).

With a deep fascination for costumes since early childhood, her journey from architecture to costume and scenography, made her explore the relationship between performative space, body, and costume. She approaches costume not simply as clothing, but as ephemeral architecture, spaces that emerge in dialogue with the performer, the movement and the environment. Her collaborations, especially in dance, carry deeply personal, feminist, and political views and concerns, while contributing to the new era of costume design. She reimagines costume design as an artistic practice where one is free to experiment, explore ideas, and create costumes that can be one of the main elements of the creative process of each project.