Astrid Steiner

Astrid Steiner is a London-based video designer renowned for her innovative stage projections in opera, theatre, and concert productions. Her visual career began in 2003 with live projections in Viennese techno clubs and has since expanded to include international performances at venues such as the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, La Seine Musicale in Paris and collaborations with the Copenhagen Phil and La Insula Orchestra.

In 2024, Astrid created a visual film for Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 as part of the MELODRAMA concert series with the Copenhagen Phil, a production integrating holographic projections.

A central and highly productive thread in her work is her long-term collaboration with Austrian director Daniela Kerck, with whom she has created a series of visually striking and narratively ambitious productions. Their partnership stands out for its consistent use of immersive video design that transforms projections into essential dramaturgical elements.

Among their most notable joint works are the world premiere of Oryx and Crake by Søren Nils Eichberg at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 2023, where Steiner pioneered holographic projections to materialize Snowman's fragmented, post-apocalyptic memories in three-dimensional space; the 2024 staging of Puccini's Turandot at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, which employed cinematic and holographic effects to depict emotional states and recollections; and most recently, the staged concert-hall production of Robert Schumann's oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri at La Seine Musicale in Paris in May 2025, conducted by Laurence Equilbey, where luminous, dreamlike projections enhanced the work's mythical theme.

Critics have frequently described Steiner's contributions in these collaborations as poetic, technically precise, and dramatically integral, often calling the Kerck–Steiner team a "dream team" that turns video into a core language of storytelling.