Boris Čakširan is known as a costume and set designer, and since 1995 he has also been working independently as a choreographer and director. He graduated with an MA in Painting – Costume Design from the University of Arts in Belgrade, and specialized further in the United Kingdom and the USA.
As a set and costume designer, he has worked on many major projects in Serbia and abroad, across film, television, and theatre. Throughout his long career, he has collaborated with some of the world’s most renowned costume production companies, such as Western Costume Company (Hollywood), Berman’s & Nathan’s (London), as well as the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. He has worked as a costume designer on numerous international co- productions with Italy, France, Germany, and the USA. In film and television, he has designed costumes for some of the most acclaimed Serbian films and TV series (Tito and Me, Premeditated Murder, Hornet, I Defended Young Bosnia, King Petar I, etc.), as well as for popular series such as The End of the Obrenović Dynasty, Black Gruja, The Storks Will Return, Roots, Shadows over the Balkans, King Petar I, and many others.
Boris is a multidisciplinary artist who has participated in 35 art exhibitions, including the Prague Quadrennial (1987). As an assistant, he contributed to more than 75 productions in opera, ballet, theatre, television, and film. To date, he has completed over 150 theatre costume designs, more than 30 stage designs, 30 television dramas and series, and over 15 film costume designs. In addition, he has created more than 30 choreographies and theatrical productions. His work has taken him across the USA, UK, Italy, Israel, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Boris is the artistic director of ERGstatus Dance Theatre, an educational and performance group founded in Belgrade in 1998.
From 1996 to 2002, he worked as a guest teacher and choreographer at some of the most prestigious schools for contemporary dance and performing arts in Israel, including MASPA – Mate Asher School of Performing Arts in Ga’aton, the University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University of Arts, and the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem.