Athos Burez, visual artist

commissioned work
Theatre
athos_9999_3d5.jpg = Stefan Hunstein | athos_9999_145.jpg = Jiyoon Moon | athos_9999_264-1.jpg = Theo Thun | athos_9999_274.jpg = Langston Uibel | athos_9999_319.jpg = Anne Rietmeijer | athos_9999_745.jpg = Eren Kavukoglu | athos_9999_916.jpg = Mila Moinzadeh | athos_9999_1055.jpg = Amanda Babaei Vieira | athos_9999_2198.jpg = Luca Manuel Mbiene | athos_9999_4100.jpg = Markus Danzeisen | athos_9999_69.jpg = Tabea Bettin | athos_9999_360.jpg = Ole Lagerpusch | athos_9999_1229.jpg = Anna Schudt | athos_9999_326.jpg = Lisa Katrina Mayer | athos_9999_333.jpg = Friederike Wagner | athos_9999_722.jpg = Guy Clemens | athos_9999_776.jpg = Kotti Yun | drags.jpg = Ensemble Stadt:Kollektiv | athos_9999_795.jpg = Christian Friedel | athos_9999_682.jpg = Annalisa Weyel | athos_9999_780.jpg = Cathleen Baumann | athos_9999_968.jpg = Lukian Anhölcher | athos_9999_205.jpg = Sera Ahamefule | athos_9999_1624.jpg = Meike Droste | athos_9999_230.jpg = Dominik Dos Reis | athos_9999_398.jpg = Thomas Wittmann | athos_9999_748bw.jpg = André Kaczmarczyk | athos_9999_749.jpg = Jürgen Sarkiss | athos_9999_1014.jpg = Kotti Yun
2026 — düsseldorfer schauspielhaus
D’HAUS
The Assembly — Cast Portraits
Portraits of the new acting ensemble of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus for the 2026/27 season book, the first season under artistic director Andreas Karlaganis. The portraits introduce the actors who form the heart of the new ensemble, and also appear in the theatre’s magazine and communication.
Spielzeitheft 2026/2027
moewe1.jpg = Die Möwe | moewe2.jpg = Die Möwe | banner-2.jpg = Ein Übertritt | rz_dhaus_poster_premiere_ein-uebertritt.jpg = Ein Übertritt | interalia.jpg = Inter Alia | _09a0635.jpg = Der Komiker | _09a0493.jpg = Der Komiker | poster1_1.jpg = Hamlet – Director’s Cut | hamlet1_1.jpg = Hamlet – Director’s Cut | _09a2439-copy.jpg = Stereophonic | screenshot-2026-10-26-at-18.25.07.jpg = Stereophonic | _09a3643.jpg = Die Blechtrommel | ruimer.jpg = Die Blechtrommel | _09a3770.jpg = Die Blechtrommel | _09a3692.jpg = Die Blechtrommel
2026 — düsseldorfer schauspielhaus
D’HAUS
Productions 2026/27
Key images for the productions of the 2026/27 season at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus: images made to carry each production on posters, in the season book and online.
01
Die Möwe
Anton Tschechow · directed by Barbara Frey
with Anna Schudt, Marin Blülle, Sera Ahamefule, Guy Clemens
premiere 16.10.2026, Großes Haus
production →
02
Ein Übertritt
Elfriede Jelinek · directed by Jossi Wieler
with Katja Bürkle, Dominik Dos-Reis, Stefan Hunstein, Ole Lagerpusch
world premiere 22.10.2026, Kleines Haus
production →
03
Inter Alia
Suzie Miller · directed by Anna Stiepani
with Meike Droste, Philipp Hauß, Theo Thun
German-language premiere 31.10.2026, Großes Haus
production →
04
Der Komiker
Canberk Köktürk · directed by Bassam Ghazi
with Eren Kavukoğlu, Ilkay Yılmaz, Kotti Yun, Belendjwa Peter, Sera Ahamefule
world premiere 27.11.2026, Kleines Haus
production →
05
Hamlet – Director’s Cut
Felix Krakau after William Shakespeare · directed by Felix Krakau
with Lukian Anhölcher, Cem Bingöl, Luca Mbiene, Jiyoon Moon, Annalisa Weyel
world premiere 04.12.2026, Central 1, Junges Schauspiel
production →
06
Stereophonic
David Adjmi and Will Butler · directed by Jakab Tarnóczi
with Guy Clemens, Lisa-Katrina Mayer, Claudius Körber, Jan Bülow, Anne Rietmeijer, Marin Blülle, Wael Kreiker
premiere 11.12.2026, Großes Haus
production →
07
Die Blechtrommel
after the novel by Günter Grass · directed by Karin Henkel
with Cathleen Baumann, Markus Danzeisen, Patrick Güldenberg, Lucia Kotikova, Franz Pätzold, Theo Thun
premiere 23.01.2027, Großes Haus
production →
2021 — theo d’or portrait
Naomi Velissariou
Theo d’Or
In 2021 Naomi Velissariou received the Theo d’Or, the most important Dutch-language prize for a leading female role, for Permanent Destruction: Pain Against Fear. Every winner of the Theo d’Or and Louis d’Or is portrayed for a gallery that hangs permanently in the Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, alongside many of the greatest names of Dutch and Flemish theatre. Naomi asked me to make hers: a portrait that closes a circle, after years of creating the images for her work.
portraitAthos Burez
commissioned byStichting Oeuvre Jan van Vossen
on permanent viewStadsschouwburg Amsterdam
2020 — campaign image
Kopergietery
Club Toulouse
A highly visual, movement-driven performance for young audiences, inspired by the life and work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Club Toulouse looks at fashion, nightlife and the hunger to be seen: a club where the backstage tells more stories than the front stage, danced on pointe shoes and high heels in smoke and light.
photographyAthos Burez
concept & directionMarieke Dermul & Roman Van Houtven
performersGytha Parmentier & Roman Van Houtven
productionKopergietery & KGBe, Ghent
2018 — campaign image
Naomi Velissariou
Permanent Destruction
An energy concert about self-hatred, desire and destruction, created and performed by Naomi Velissariou with musician Joost Maaskant. It premiered at SPRING Utrecht in May 2018 and became the first part of a trilogy that would earn her the Theo d’Or. The campaign image sets the tone: raw, seductive and on the edge of collapse.
photographyAthos Burez
productionVia Rudolphi, Theater Utrecht & C-Takt
visualsFrederik Heyman
2017 — campaign image
Naomi Velissariou
Sontag
Not a biography but a larger-than-life dream world built on the thinking of Susan Sontag. Sontag was Naomi Velissariou’s final production at Frascati, with text by Rik van den Bos and a cast of Tim Schmidt, Ward Kerremans, Ingrid Wender and Naomi herself.
photographyAthos Burez
productionFrascati Producties, Amsterdam
2016 — campaign image & set design
Naomi Velissariou
Q&A
A contemporary myth about societal anxiety, written by Rik van den Bos and directed by Naomi Velissariou. It premiered in April 2016 and toured the Netherlands and Belgium. Besides the image for the campaign, I also designed the set.
photography & set designAthos Burez
productionFrascati Producties & Dood Paard
productionFrascati →