Marnik Baert

After finishing his master degree in Scenography at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and his Master degree in Costume Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp, he started his career at Arena Theatre Ghent. He quickly became permanent costume designer and supervisor at the city theatre of Ghent: NTG (now NT Ghent) where he worked with several directors such as Hugo Claus, Jean-Pierre Dedecker, Dirk Tanghe, Eddy Vereycken, Hugo van den Berghe, Guy Cassiers and Victor Löw. In his last year at NTG, director Frank van Laecke - "The Wizard" - invited him to create the costumes for the opera productions Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at the National Opera in Amsterdam. It was the start of an intense collaboration. Since 1997 Marnik Baert is an independent freelancer for va