Aino Laberenz is a Finnish-born costume and stage designer based in Germany. She has created costumes and sets for numerous theatre, television and film productions directed by celebrated artists such as Irene von Alberti and Christoph Schlingensief. She has contributed to exhibitions at institutions such as MoMA PS1 in New York and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. As Managing Director of Festspielhaus Afrika gGmbH, she oversees the “Operndorf Afrika” project founded by Schlingensief in 2009. Together with curator Susanne Gaensheimer, she designed the German Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, which was awarded the Golden Lion. Laberenz is also a photographer, author, and editor, the executor of Schlingensief’s estate, and the founder of the children’s film festival “KiFiFe” in Burkina Faso.