Maline Casta is a visual storyteller based in Sweden. She has a background in stage art, designing sets and costumes for dance, theater and opera. She holds an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from Tisch School of The Arts, New York University, and an MA in Storytelling from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. She also holds
a BA in Theater Studies and Art History from Umeå University.

Maline works with a wide range of expressions including performance, illustration, installation and writing. She is interested in playfully overlapping genres while touching upon questions relating to challenges in our times.

Her work in stage design includes collaborations with New York Philharmonic, Compañía Nacional de Danza de España, The Juilliard School, Västmanlandsmusiken, Columbia University, among others, and her design work has been shown at
venues such as Malmö Opera, MDT, Norrlandsoperan, WELD, Barbican Center, L'auditori de Barcelona etc.

As a performance artist her performance work has been showcased at galleries and art venues in Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, France, Italy and Spain.

Apart from her own artistic practice Maline has a broad experience working and collaborating with artistic organisations and institutions, for example as faculty member at Konstfack, executive manager at Art Lab Gnesta and consultant in the art of preserving historic costumes at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.

Contact:  maline.casta(@)gmail.com