About
Mercè Paloma studied art history at the University of Barcelona. She works regularly with Calixto Bieito.
She created the Barbarian Comedies costumes at the Edinburgh Festival, La Vie is a dream in Barcelona and Edinburgh, Bernarda Alba's House, El Barberillo de Lavapies and The Tempest in Madrid, Shakespeare's Macbeth at the Salzburg Festival, Pierrot Lunaire in Barcelona, Così fan tutte and The Bat at Welsh National Opera, Don Giovanni and A masked ball at the English National Opera and at the Danish Royal Opera, The Abduction at the Seraglio at the Komische Oper in Berlin, Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana at the Staatsoper in Hannover, La Fanciulla del West at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, Tosca, Wozzeck, A masked ball and La Cabeza del Bautista (directed by Carlos Wagner) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Madame Butterfly (directed by by Joan Anton Rechi) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Love Life (Joan Anton Rechi) in Freiburg, Don Giovanni and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (Joan Anton Rechi) in Aachen, from the world premiere of El Pintor de Colomer (m stage director Albert Boadella) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, The Italian in Algiers (Joan Anton Rechi) at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. She also works for Spanish and Catalan cinema and television. She received the Barcelona Critics Theater Award 2007 and the Gaudi Film Award for Pa negre and Stella cadente.