Márton Ágh, born in 1972 in Hungary, studied stage and costume design at the University of the Arts in Budapest. He works internationally as a set, stage, and costume designer in various constellations across film, theatre, and opera. A long-standing collaboration connects him with director Kornél Mundruczó, with whom he has realized over 20 film and theatre projects. His stage designs for Mundruczó’s productions with Proton Theater have received multiple awards, including Best Set Design for Disgrace (2013) and Imitation of Life (2017) at the National Theatre Festival in Hungary.
Ágh’s production design for Mundruczó’s film Jupiter’s Moon, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, was awarded the Hungarian Film Award for Best Production Design in 2018. He has also created production designs for Peter Greenaway’s film The Tulse Luper Suitcases and for numerous film and theatre projects by Árpád Schilling, under whose direction he was also part of the Krétakör Theatre in Budapest. His stage design for Schilling’s production of Faust I–II earned him the Hungarian Theatre Critics’ Award in 2015.
In recognition of his outstanding achievements in theatre arts and scholarship, Ágh was awarded the Jászai Mari Prize in 2009 and the Hevesi Sándor Prize in 2022 for his contributions to promoting Hungarian theatre culture internationally.
His work has taken him to venues including the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, the National Theatre of Pécs, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, National Theatre of Thessaloniki, Swedish National Theatre Stockholm, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Theater Basel, Opera Bern, Schaubühne Berlin, Sophiensaele Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, Schauspiel Hannover, Staatstheater Nürnberg, and the Burgtheater Vienna. At the Lucerne Theatre, he created the production The Cherry Orchard together with Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis.