Idan Yoav

Idan Yoav is a costume and fashion designer with an interdisciplinary background in dance. After an international career as a dancer, including with Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Batsheva Dance Company, he studied fashion design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee and at ENSAD Paris and was honoured with the European Fashion Award FASH 2022. Since then, he has worked as a costume designer at leading opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Frankfurt Opera, the Zurich Opera House, the Dutch National Opera and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.

During his residency at MQ, Idan Yoav continues to work on his fashion project, which rethinks clothing as a medium for creativity, personality and responsible design. All pieces are created exclusively through reuse: garments and forgotten textiles are carefully handcrafted and upcycled into unique shapes. The collection combines two things: unique, artistic ready-to-wear pieces for everyday wear and theatrical designs that oscillate between costume and clothing. Each silhouette has a strong character, is consciously designed and tells its own story. Instead of mass production, the focus is on a mindful, creative process that draws on what already exists, passes on stories and sharpens the eye for material, form and identity.

On 9 September 2025 at 18:30, the artist will take part in the Fashion Talk on the MQ Summer Stage.