ceci n'est pas une identitée
Jan Krmelj (b.1995, Maribor, Slovenia)
theatre director, writer, sound artist_
my work blends theatre, live film and sound art into hybrid compositions within intermedia performances.
++++data capitalism / animated landscapes and atmospheres / digital intimacy / speculative infrastructures / documentary fiction / beyond genre+++
/ award for best director at Borštnikovo srečanje (Rrose Sélavy:::::Rapture) LINK
/ Bitef festival 2024 main programme (Rrose Sélavy::::Rupture) LINK
/ shortlisted for Theatertreffen-Stueckemarkt 2020 (For the Void: A Camera's Lament)
/ the Tantadruj regional award (2024, Affabulazione) LINK
MA Theatre directing @AGRFT, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2026
Richard III by W. Shakespeare
SNG Maribor, 24.5.2026
director
orpheus & eurydice
Cankarjev dom, MGL, En-knap, 23.1.2026
director; original music by Sašo Vollmaier; text by Urša Majcen
hlapci / a documentary for the future
SLG Celje, 9.1.2026
director, writer*
*inspired by the work of Ivan Cankar; cowritten by the artistic team*
2025
the state
Zavod Maska, Cankarjev dom, 27.9.2025
director, writer*
*cowritten by the artistic team*
OIL
devised theatre project / documentary fiction
miniteater Ljubljana, 28.2.2025
director, cowriter*, composer
*the text is a collective work (with Jernej Potočan, Mojka Končar, Filip Mramor, Jernej Gašperin, Diana Kolenc, Gašper Lovrec, Lucija Ostan Vejrup)
2024
AFFABULAZIONE
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Slovenian National Theatre Nova Gorica, 24.1.2024
director & composer
2023
RUPTURE / RAPTURE
by Rrose Sélavy / Lucy Kirkwood
MGL, Ljubljana, 26.10.2023
director
2021
STATE OF EMERGENCY
by Falk Richter
MGL, Ljubljana
11.12.2021
director&designer of scenography
THE ARSONISTS
by Max Frisch
Slovenian National Theatre Drama Ljubljana
25.9.2021
director&designer of scenography
2020
PROSLAVA
Ivor Martinić, Navid Fadaee Nazer, Mojca Marič
Slovenian National Theatre Maribor
1.10.2020
director&designer of scenography and light
2019
ANTIPHONES
Seven clues for the time that remains
dedicated to Arvo Pärt
osmo:za, 21.12. 2019
director, designer of scenography
produced by DELAK
FOR THE VOID
A Camera's Lament
Švicarija Ljubljana, 5.11.2019
Director, designer of scenography
produced by FLOTA
TRIADIC BALLET
The Chant of a Wound
inspired by Oskar Schlemmer
27. september 2019, Sokolski dom Ljubljana
Writer, director, performance designer
THE OPPOSITE by Boris Nikitin
codirector / with Boris Nikitin
Slovensko mladinsko gledališče, 28.3.2019
2018
Idomeneus by Roland Schimmelpfennig
MGL Ljubljana City Theatre, 20.5.2018 (BA production)
director, translator&performance designer2017
neither trace
Kiblix/Pina/Izis/Cirkulacija2, october-december
2017
intermedia instalation
with DivinaMimesisCHORUS
Kino Šiška, Co-festival, September 2017
director&performance designer
with Žigan Krajnčan and Gašper Kunšek
2016
UTOPIA, An Archeology of Paradise
SNG Drama Ljubljana, september 2016
Writer,director&performance designer
with DivinaMimesis
utopia, a fragment
(inspired by Fernando Arrabal's Fando y Lis)
SNG Drama Ljubljana, may 2016
director&performance designer