Yoko Seyama

The Berlin-based Japanese scenographer and Multimedia artist Yoko Seyama specialises in spatial time-based art. Her background is in architecture and dance. Her works combine digital elements with natural materials and transform them into mutating spaces in Public Spaces, Theatres, Museums, and Galleries.
For the Performing Arts, she has created her unique scenography for dance, ballet, musicals, opera, and concerts with many collaborators, such as NDT “Mémoires d’Oubliettes” with Jiří Kylián, Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast GRAND SHOW 23, Staatsballett Berlin, Leipzig Ballet “The Nutcracker”, Grand Theatre Łódź “Die Fledermaus” with Giorgio Madia, Astana Opera “Cinderella” with Raimondo Rebeck, Theatre of Musical Comedy St Petersburg “Miss Saigon” “Zirkusprinzessin”, National Dance Company Wales UK with Felnando Melo, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, Compañía Nacional de Danza and New National Ballet of Japan, The opening ceremony of EXPO 2025 Osaka Japan and Naniwa Danshi Concert 23/24 with Takeatsu Nashimoto.
Her installations have been exhibited worldwide in Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst (DE), Borås Art Museum (SE), Museo della luce (Rome), Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburgh), SonicActsXIII (NL), Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (JP), Bangkok Citycity Gallery, MAIIAM (TH), and many others.
She holds an MA in Art Science from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and a BA in Architecture from Musashino Art University, Tokyo. She has received a grant from the Pola Art Foundation (JP), a Lighting Design Award 2023, and a nomination for the 22nd Hong Kong Dance Awards.