Sarah Seini
Sarah Seini (*1998 in Bochum) is a queer artist of Nigerien and Polish descent, based in Berlin. Her artistic practice moves between costume design, set design, performance, and sculptural textile design. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Costume Design at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Costume Design at the same institution. As part of her studies, she completed an exchange semester at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre (ENSATT) in Lyon.
Her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of intersectional identities, postcolonial experiences, fragmentation, and queerness. Combining postcolonial and non-binary forms of expression with sculptural and body-related textile practices, she investigates costume as a second skin, a carrier of memory, and a site of social inscription. Her work questions Eurocentric regimes of looking and normative ideas of the body, aesthetics, and representation, creating spaces between distortion, transformation, and beauty.
Since 2019, Sarah Seini has been working as a freelance costume and set designer for theatre, film, and performance. Her recent works include costume design for “Jeeps” (2025, directed by Berfin Orman, Theater Dessau), “Maylandschaften” (2025, directed by Miriam Ibrahim, Theater Münster), set design for “Azucar” (2023, Kampnagel Hamburg), and costume design for “YEYE” (2022, choreographed by Lois Alexander, Sophiensæle) and “Bullestress” (2021, directed by Suna Gürler, Schauspielhaus Zürich). Further collaborations include projects at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, English Theatre Berlin, and the artist residency Space Camp at Tanzhaus Zürich.
Alongside her work in costume design, Sarah Seini develops her own performative works.
contact: sarah.seini@icloud.com
2025 costume design for "Jeeps" director: Berfin Orman, Theater Dessau
2025 costume design for "Maylandschaften", director: Miriam Ibrahim, Theater Münster
2023 stage design for "Azucar", Kampnagel Hamburg
2023 artist residency "space camp" Tanzhaus Zürich
2022 costume designer for "YEYE" by Lois Alexander Sophiensäle
2022 stage designer for "Labyrinth", Ricardo de Paula and Grupo Oito HAU2
2022 costume designer for "Machine to become woman", English Theatre
2021 costume design for "Bullestress" by Suna Guerler, Schauspielhaus Zürich
2021 performer at "Hyperbodies in Hyperspace" by Doireann O'Malley, 3HD Festival
2021 costume design for "Looking at Shirley", Lois Alexander and Christoph Winkler Company
2021 artistic direction and costume design for performance "returning gaze", UNIT Theater
2021 costume design for dance film "Yeye" by Lois Alexander, Sophiensaele
2021 costume design for short film "Reizstoff" by Julian Dietrich Film Kostümbild, Filmuniversität Babelsberg
2021 costume and stage design assistance for theater play "Your Anger is My Anger", Ballhaus Naunystraße / cancelled due to Covid
2020 performer at "Hyperbodies in Hyperspace" by Doireann O'Malley // cancelled due Covid
2020 mask design for theater play "Deine Macht mir nichts" Universität der Künste und HfS Ernst Busch
2020 costume design and set assistance for short film "Katzenjammer" by Flavio Rigamonti, DFFB
2020 mask design for event Freak de L'afrique
2019- 2020 director, stage and costume design for theater performance"Hysterikon", DIE ETAGE
sep 2018 - nov 2018 costume internship at Berliner Ensemble for "Die Verdammten" director: David Bösch
march 2017 - may 2018 costume internship at Deutsches Theater "Vor Sonnenaufgang" director: Jette Steckel
oct 2015 - june 2015 Junges Ensemble der Neuköllner Oper, performer at theater project "Odysee d'Orleans: Jeanne D'Arc"
oct 2015 - june 2015 Junges Ensemble der Neuköllner Oper, performer at theater project "Odysee d'Orleans: Jeanne D'Arc"
oct 2014 - mai 2015 Artsavagabond Benin "Home sweet home" theaterproject about housing and human rights
sep 2014 - june 2015 ACADEMY Bühnenkunstschule für Jugendliche performer for muisical "Hunger"