Q U O T E "An Artist needs the nerves of a bullfighter,
the concentration as a buddhist monk,
the courage of a female Parisian nightclub owner"
Jaschka Heifetz
July 20, 2010
July 05, 2010
Q""UOTES
"Birgitte is a very talented Painter"
Achim Freyer
Stage Director- and Designer
”Ms. Moos is a specialist image-maker, an artist, thinker and craftsperson who possesses an
extraordinary esthetic sensiblilty. She is already a visionary in the field, pionering exciting new
areas of the cutting edge of technology and the arts, and creating striking and deeply
interesting art works in the process. She is a creative and gifted talent who not only excels but
stands out... Her work show great sensitivity, versatility and universal appeal in many genres of
artistic media. She is an excellent conceptual and creative thinker, a fine communicator, and
highly sophisticated in her use of visual language... Individuals with her combination of skills,
knowledge and talent are extremely rare and much sought after by industry. She will
undoubtedly bring prestige to any project in which she is involved.”
extraordinary esthetic sensiblilty. She is already a visionary in the field, pionering exciting new
areas of the cutting edge of technology and the arts, and creating striking and deeply
interesting art works in the process. She is a creative and gifted talent who not only excels but
stands out... Her work show great sensitivity, versatility and universal appeal in many genres of
artistic media. She is an excellent conceptual and creative thinker, a fine communicator, and
highly sophisticated in her use of visual language... Individuals with her combination of skills,
knowledge and talent are extremely rare and much sought after by industry. She will
undoubtedly bring prestige to any project in which she is involved.”
”I am confident that she will continue to shine and develop as one of the pioners and creative talents in the field.”
Vibeke Sorensen
Professor and Founding Chair
University of Southern California
School of TV and Cinematic Arts, Division of Animation and Digital Arts
”Scenography and its related disciplines is an increasingly important area of study and gaining
considerable academic attention. The field encompasses the visual and spatial aspects of
performance in all its manifestations. As such, it includes architecture, the plastic and fine arts,
digital and electronical media, drama, literature and related fields. It is, in other words, a truly
cross-disciplinary field of study with important implications for the contemporary world of
performance, communication, media and the like.. Someone who can bring praxis to theoretical
interrogation should be an ideal candidate for such a field of study. Ms. Moos seems to be such
a person.”
considerable academic attention. The field encompasses the visual and spatial aspects of
performance in all its manifestations. As such, it includes architecture, the plastic and fine arts,
digital and electronical media, drama, literature and related fields. It is, in other words, a truly
cross-disciplinary field of study with important implications for the contemporary world of
performance, communication, media and the like.. Someone who can bring praxis to theoretical
interrogation should be an ideal candidate for such a field of study. Ms. Moos seems to be such
a person.”
Arnold Aronson PhD
Professor and Chair
Columbia University School of the Arts,
Theatre Arts Division
”Birgitte has a high vocational base that places her in that certain category reserved for outstanding Danish mediators in the creation of film... Her accomplishments are manifold. She is an eminent Production Designer and a very talented painter. She is unusually articulate and entertaining Birgitte functions perfectly the role of a teacher.”
”Great artistic talent is characterised by the artists ability to be innovative, and this Birgitte posesses in abundance.”
”Birgitte Moos is enormously qualified to work with the education and design of television, film, video and the performing arts.”
Susanne Vad
Film Studies Director
Zentropa Productions / Station Next
”Birgitte Moos is a Danish designer, which in future may help to anchor Denmarks position in the
field of set design for film and theatrical media. Birgitte has through her earlier works showed
great professional commitment, professionalism and pioneering new ideas.”
Ulla Hovgaard Ramlau
President, Danish Design Center
”Birgitte has studied at UDK, Berlin University of the Arts, by Professor Achim Freyer. The mere
fact being accepted as student by one of this century’s most recognized scenographers and
visual artists, indicates her talent.”
Jonas Elmer
Filmdirector
June 07, 2010
NSTALLATION: The Form Behind the Form. Time defined as Form
Artist: Birgitte MoOS
Artist: Birgitte MoOS
Denmarks National College of Design/ Danmarks Designskole - Copenhagen
The object is a container containing time & the container is a temporal model, that visualizes what time is in itself when time is designed as a physical object.
The now moving in time, independent of the moment... READ MORE
May 20, 2010
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"The Arsonists" extended through June 26th, 2010. CHRITICS CHOICE by Los Angeles Times LINK TO VIDEO
May 18, 2010
SET DESIGN for The Arsonists. American premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. April 3 - May 23, 2010
Photo by Tina Jøhnk Christensen
Los Angeles Times
CRITICS PICK; Theater review: 'The Arsonists' at KOAN at the Odyssey April 15, 2010
”...Among the first-rate design elements, Birgitte Moos’ striking set holds some real surprises.”
Read more at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/ 2010/04/ theater-review-the arsonists-at-koan-at-the-odyssey-theatre.html
L.A. Weekly Theater Critics. April 8, 2010
”...Set designer Birgitte Moos' beautiful two-level set (1950s-style living room and attic) is ingenious...”
Read more at http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/stage-news/stage-raw-the-mystery-plays/#more
BEVERLY PRESS, April 8, 2010
”...super set design co-operation from Birgitte Moos...”
BACKSTAGE. CRITICS PICK: 'The Arsonists'. KOAN at The Odyssey Theatre. 7.4.2010
STAGE AND CINEMA, FIREMEN, SAVE MY WORLD, April 11, 2010
”... the look and feel of a grim East-European film of the 60s, with just the right touch of Keystone Kops madness...”
Read more at http://www.stageandcinema.com/arsonists.html
Campus Circle, May 5, 2010
”The two level set design from the wallpaper to the hanging houses was beautifully developed by Danish set designer and fine artist Birgitte Moos. (I could not expect less from a student of Achim Freyer.)...”
Read more at http://www.campuscircle.com/review.cfm?r=10879&h=-The-Arsonists-Now-May-The-Odyssey-Theatre
A CurtainUp, Los Angeles Review: The Arsonists 8 april, 2010
“Scenic designer Birgitte Moos has layered that second level attic atop a sterile white living room that looks like it might be a generic hotel room. Miniature houses representing the city float in space, and the firefighters scale metal towers to peek in the windows…”
Read more at http://www.curtainup.com/arsonistsla10.html
LA THEATRE REVIEW, April 9, 2010”The set, by Birgitte Moos... was marvelously evocative...”
Read more at http://www.latheatrereview.com/2010/04/09/the-arsonists-at-the-odyssey/
BITTER LEMONS, April 2010
http://bitter-lemons.com/2010/04/the-arsonists-100-sweet/
BITTER LEMONS, April 2010
http://bitter-lemons.com/2010/04/the-arsonists-100-sweet/
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October 17, 2009
ARTIST IN RESIDENCY & LECTURE AT THE WATERMILL CENTER, NEW YORK
Revolutionary Spaces October 27, 2009 - 6:00pm
The Watermill Center
39 Watermill Towd Road
Watermill, New York
Watermill, New York
Revolutionary Spaces is an exploration of the art of theatrical set design. From challenging gravity to creating a language through non-realistic imagery, Revolutionary Spaces explores the interaction of the audience and the stage. This project questions how and where the viewer experiences recognition and intuitive understanding of the content of a performance as it relates to the environment of the action on the stage. The intent is to channel this exploration into writing a book on the effects of abstract imagery as they apply to set design.
Birgitte Moos is a Danish artist, based in Copenhagen and Los Angeles. Both a conceptual painter and set designer, she holds an MFA from the National Design School of Denmark, where she was often called “the most analytical Danish set designer.” Her work has been shown in various venues and exhibited internationally at numerous galleries. Recently, she designed the set and costumes for Theatre Cantabile2 in Copenhagen and had a solo exhibition at Edgar Varela Fine Arts in Los Angeles.
More information is available at www.birgittemoos.com.
This free workshop : A work-in-progress presentation, is part of the Watermill Center's Fall 2009 Artists-in-Residence program.
Birgitte Moos is a Danish artist, based in Copenhagen and Los Angeles. Both a conceptual painter and set designer, she holds an MFA from the National Design School of Denmark, where she was often called “the most analytical Danish set designer.” Her work has been shown in various venues and exhibited internationally at numerous galleries. Recently, she designed the set and costumes for Theatre Cantabile2 in Copenhagen and had a solo exhibition at Edgar Varela Fine Arts in Los Angeles.
More information is available at www.birgittemoos.com.
This free workshop : A work-in-progress presentation, is part of the Watermill Center's Fall 2009 Artists-in-Residence program.
October 16, 2009
SET DESIGN FOR THE HAMLETMACHINEThesis project for masters degree at Denmarks Designschool 
October 01, 2009
For Citizen LA Magazine – Los Angeles. Review by Birgitte Moos: "Siegfried" at Los Angeles Opera. Directed and designed by Achim Freyer
LA Opera stages the Richard Wagner tetralogy Ring Cycle through 2008/10. The third opera in the cycle, Siegfried, just had its premiere at The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.The LA Opera Ring Cycle is conducted by James Conlan, directed and designed by the Berlin based, internationally known Artist, Achim Freyer. Mr. Freyer also does light and costume design in collaboration with Amanda Freyer and Brian Gale.
The Ring Cycle is based on Norse mythology, Icelandic Sagas and the Germanic pre-Christian legend of the Song of the Niebelungs; a heroic epic poem written in german in the 12th century.
The illiterate but fearless hero of The Ring Cycle is Siegfried. A product of nature, as Siegfried’s mother Sieglinde was sent to the woods with a broken sword. She died in childbirth, and Mime raises Siegfried in the forest, in hope to get a powerful ring.
First act opens with light tubes across the stage floor, reminding of a swimming pool. Siegfried sees reflections in the stream, and the mirror effect is futhermore executed by twin figures of the main characters.
The story is visualized by a moving and sometimes tilted revolving stage, as a record player where the story is grooved into, and reflected out in a divine light space, creating three-dimensional effects through projections on fore -and background.
As the drama accumulates, Mime plans to kill Siegfried, but Siegfried fixes the sword, the young hero conquers power with this sword and kills everyone who comes in his way including the dragon Pfafner, and departs for the sleeping Brunhilde.
On the journey to Brunhilde, Siegfried encounters Wotan, the king of the Gods, overcomes climbing the mountain, pervades the magic fire, finally arousing the beauty, Brunhilde, who is told to marry whatever man that awakens her.
The stage design evolves throughout a story where values and moral is defined by, that survival is everything, so the final act consists of integrating multilayered visual expressions, ranging from under -and oversized objects to sophisticated retro 80’es neon art show.
A multimedia performance where variation in speed of movements, superb comic book elements, fairytale symbolic references amplifies into a precise abstract interpretation, staying true to the text.
The vocal performances was penetratingly mind stirring and technically more than straight. Music director James Conlon is evident as the Capitan of the orchestral ship, sounding lovely.
I advise Quentin Tarrantino, Peter Jackson and David Lynch go see it, as the story contain many of the same classic elements of the Hero Myth as Tolkien and makes use of mythic storytelling, and because this performance proves that the screen hasn’t taken over!
The Ring Cycle is ancestral legends, and Achim Freyer hit the tone of the story instinctively, academically and stunningly! Achim Freyer has proved that age doesn’t play any role, when it comes to staying innovative and visionary as an artist.
By Birgitte Moos. A Danish Fine Artist and Stage Designer, student of Achim Freyer at the Berlin University of the Arts, HDK in Berlin.
September 19, 2009
Pershing Square
Autumn Lights -
Los Angeles
Contemporary Art in
the Public Space.
ARTIST STATEMENT: FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE ITFake it Till You Make It is a visual commentary on contemporary visual art practice and spectator attendance. Produced by using threads to art history and current ‘art trends’. It is a site-specific and politically anarchistic work created for the Autumn Lights exhibition at Pershing Square in Downtown, Los Angeles, September 2009...
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532 S. Olive St.
Los Angeles, 90014
9/19/2009 - 9/19/2009
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