Ersan Mondtag

Biography

He was born in Berlin in 1987 and works as a director between the disciplines of theatre and music, performance and installation. In 2012 he founded the KAPITÆL ZWEI KOLEKTIF in Munich and collectively developed duration performances, experimental party forms and interdisciplinary works for the theatre. His productions were presented at various international festivals, and he also co-operates with German theatres, such as Kammerspiele in Munich and the Maxim Gorky Theater in Berlin.  For the Pinakothek der Moderne museum’s temporary pavilion he created KONKORDIA, a nine-day duration performance, together with Olga Bach. His productions at theatres in Frankfurt and Kassel have been invited to the radikal jung and Berlin Theatertreffen festivals, among others. The journal THEATER HEUTE crowned Mondtag 2016's »young director of the year«, as well as »set and costume designer of the year«.  De Living, which translates as “living rooms”, is his first performance staged in Belgium.