Ignasi Cristià

Ignasi Cristià

Graduated in Dramatic Arts, specializing in scenography (1993) and in dramaturgy (1990) from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona at the UAB. Intermediate degree in Music, specializing in lyrical singing from the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceu (1995).

Teaching

Guest professor since 2007 at the Department of Art History at the University of Barcelona, where he teaches seminars on museography and exhibition design; since 2021 at the International University of Catalonia in the subject of Management and Curating of Artistic Exhibitions and Heritage Assets; at the Kunsthal, Higher Center for Design in Bilbao. He has been invited by different institutions, from the to give talks and conferences on the relationship between theater and museography by different institutions throughout Spain.

Professional experience

His first work in the field of scenography was the costumes for La fille mal gardée, a ballet by Ferdinand Hérold and John Lanchbery performed at the Breslau Opera, Poland, in 1991 with choreography by Barbara Kasprowicz. In the following years, he designed the set for the Spanish-Colombian production Amores Difíciles at the Manizales International Theatre Festival, and for the concert El coro del tiempo by Maria del Mar Bonet at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Also, in 1997, he was in charge of the set design for Romy and July, a version of the ballet Romeu and Juliet at the Festival de Teatre Grec. This work won the City of Barcelona Award in the Performing Arts category. For a time he combined his work as a set designer with that of a lyrical tenor, forming part of the POLS opera group, resident in the Luz de Gas hall in Barcelona and in the Espacio Barroco. He also participated as a soloist in the opera Trouble in Tahiti by Leonard Bernstein and the show Una furtiva operar, among others.

In 2023 he was the author of the nativity scene in Plaza Sant Jaume in Barcelona. In the field of dramaturgy, in 2022 he was the stage director of the new production of Un ballo in maschera at the Varna opera house (Bulgaria) and of the revival of the monodrama Medea by Ambrosis Carrión and Joan Manén at the Auditori de Barcelona. museography of the Museum-Memorial of Exile in La Jonquera and the new Museum of the Port of Tarragona. He has collaborated with institutions, museums and entities such as the Musée de Montmartre in Paris, the Musée de la Résistence de Isère in Grenoble, the Palais Lumière in Evian, the PQ Prague Quadrienal of Performance Design and Space, the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid, the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona, CaixaForum, CosmoCaixa and the National Archaeological Museum, among others.

He is the author of the new museography of the exhibition Nature or Culture at the Martorell Exhibition Centre in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona and of the museography The Worlds of Alice which has begun its tour at CaixaForum in Barcelona.