Ilija Višnjić is an Illustrator, scenic designer, costume designer, and an accomplished prop maker. Graduated in Textile design from the Faculty of Applied Arts, at Belgrade University in 2009.
Illustration, Opera, theatre, and movies are his main field of work, but also music videos and commercial events.
In addition to that, he is working for several corporations as an illustrator owing to his experience in classical and digital painting. He worked as a resident teacher in “Art and Media” high school for 3 years (2011-2013).
So far he has designed sets at Opera and Theatre Madlenianum for the “Magic Flute” (2013), collaborated with Operosa Festival as a set and costume designer on “Lo Speziale” (2015), and music performance “Ovo nije opera” (“This is not an opera”) (2016), as well as an assistant of the famous costume and scenic designer Domenico Franchi on “La Cenerentola” (2016). He also worked at Zvezdara Teatar as scenic and costume design for Martin McDonagh’s black comedy “A Behanding in Spokane” (2016).
In 2017 he had a successful debut as a director for “La Serva Padrona “ by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi for Operosa Academy, and he finished costume design for the opera “Iolanta” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, production by Operosa festival.
He was the production designer in two featured movies “VIR” (2013) and “Open cage” (2015) and many short movies, designed the set for the “Balkan Tube Fest” (2016/2017), and was hired as a scenic designer for a number of various music videos with renowned Serbian musicians.
As of 2017, he is working for Operosa as the Creative coordinator. He participated in the Festival ‘Aix en Provence “Opera creation Workshop” with Katie Mitchell in 2017.
He moved to Vietnam in 2018 where he spent two wonderful years.
Currently, he finished the set design for the First Belgrade Immersive theatre ” In His Mind “
He is a member of the “Cultural Element” organization, which aims at the presentation and promotion of culture and cultural awareness in the country.