Kathrin Kemp designed the set and costumes for

Der zerbrochne Krug, a production by Thomas Oliver Niehaus at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, where she had already designed the set and costumes for

Hedda Gabler the previous year. In 2021, Kathrin Kemp created the stage design for Solaris by

Dai Fujikura and worked with director Helen Malkowsky for the Neue Oper Wien. In 2020, the production of Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, directed by Thomas Oliver Niehaus, led her to Stadttheater Bremerhaven for the first time, where she developed both the stage design and the costume design. In collaboration with Raimund Orfeo Voigt, she was responsible for the set design for Mateja Koležnik's production of Der Einsame Weg at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna and developed the set design for demut vor deinen taten baby, directed by Florian Thiel. Together with Simon Sramek and Dominique Wiesbauer, Kathrin Kemp designed the stage set for Dido and Aeneas, directed by Béatrice Lachaussée, for the neue Studio Bühne Wien, as well as the production design for Erdbeerland by Florian Pochlatko, awarded with the Austrian Film Award.

Together with Bernhard Hammer, she worked on the draft and artistic conception of the large-scale theater projects De Opstand and Willem van Oranje.

Together with the architecture firm Kawa, Kathrin Kemp developed the exhibition design for Science fiction(s) - als ob es ein morgen gäbe at the Weltmuseum Wien. She previously worked as a designer for the exhibition Foodprints at the Technisches Museum Wien. In 2021 she designed displays for video works by toxic dreams in the exhibition After the End and Before the Beginning at the Theatermuesum Wien.

In addition, Kathrin Kemp designed window displays and sets for, among others, the fashion label Hermés and the herbal liqueur brand Kalê.

 

Kathrin Kemp lives and works as a scenographer in Vienna and was born in Graz in 1988. She graduated from the Ortwein School of Art and Design where she had studied in the Product Design and Presentation Department. She further studied Stage and Film Design at Mozarteum, Salzburg, and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, with Bernhard Kleber, where she has been lecturing since 2015. She assisted productions at Burgtheater, Vienna, at Theater Basel and at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. She also worked as an assistant to the technical management at Theater in der Josefstadt. Since 2025 she has been lecturing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.