Jesper Kongshaug

Jesper Kongshaug was educated in the USA and has worked on numerous theatre performances, opera, ballet, art exhibitions and televisions. He has created unique lighting designs for the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, most recently for Wagner's Das Ring des Nibelungens Den Jyske Opera, Hotel Pro Forma, as well as theatres in Norway, Sweden and Germany. He has done architectural lighting design, most recently in Kastrup Copenhagen airport and Højbro Plads, a complete redesign of an old central square in Copenhagen. Lighting design for the new Royal Playhouse has given Jesper Kongshaug the Danish Lighting Prize 2008 and Nordic Lighting Prize, Helsinki 2008. He won an invited architectural competition in collaboration with Architects Erik Brandt Dam and Nicolai Bo Andersen of refurbishing the Kings Garden of Odense.