Katherine Sultan Erminy (1983) Venezuelan-born, Berlin-based Visual Artist, Filmmaker, Production Designer. After completing her studies in visual arts, master's degree in mixed media, Katherine embarked on her creative journey. Her career took a significant turn when she contributed as an Art Director on her first feature film, "El Peor Hombre del Mundo." This experience ignited her passion for filmmaking, leading her to pursue her dream of creating cinematic narratives. In 2017, Katherine took the leap into filmmaking with the feature film, "All Cats Are Black in the Dark." Since then, she has been actively involved in the industry, working across various roles such as Art Director, Production Designer, Collaborator, and Concept/Visual Artist for a diverse range of projects including short films, feature films, theatre plays, and music videos. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
As a multidisciplinary artist, Katherine's work revolves around the creation of immersive imaginary worlds. She specializes in conceptualizing the aesthetics of each project, translating them into compelling visual ideas, and crafting atmospheres that resonate with the narrative. Her work extends to character design and the realization of creative visions for sets and locations, all aimed at infusing each project with a distinct and captivating visual identity Recent work includes designing and fabricating a large-scale Seiko stadium chronometer for the Adidas “Nueva Era” advertisement (2025, Director: Arjun Saraswat), where she served as Prop Master and lead builder. Kath also led the art direction and set design for the BETTEROV music video (2025, Director: Chris Schwarz, COAL FILMS), shaping the project’s spatial logic, visual tone and material identity.
Art-direction and production-design credits include “I Can’t Say No to Myself” (2023, Feature Film, Director: Hadas Ben Aroya), and “DEUZ” (2019, Feature Film, Director: Jasper Grave). I also contributed set design for the Synthesizer Museum Berlin (2024, Director: Michael Soltau) and served as Art Director for the feature-length project “Visual Feminist Manifesto” (2022, anonymous director).
Additional roles in commercials and short-form media include Prop Master for “Dream Sequence DNV” (2024, Director: Cristina Planas), Assistant Art Director for Babbel – Speak English (2023, Director: Bengi Coskun), Set Runner / Artist Liaison for Snipes (2023, Director: Cypher), and Art Department roles on various short films including “Gilgamesch” (2020, Director: Tobias Schülke), “Irene et Steve” (2020, Director: Mohammed Abugeth), “The Great Parody” (2019, Director: André Rosa de Carvalho), and “Seven Levels Deep” (2019, Directors: Pina Brutal & Mattias Larsen).
Earlier positions include Costume Designer for “Bettgeflüster” (2020, Director: Domenico Distilo), Prop Master for the docuseries “Nitronauten” (2019, Director: Deniz Sözbir), and Production Designer for “Vier” (2019, Director: Simon Meyer).
Kath theatre scenography work spans “Weihnachtsfrau” (2023, Zenobia Theater), “The Sky Doesn’t Have Limits” (2019, Director: MHLA NCUBE), and “That Fly 70s Futuristic Shit!!!” (2018, Director: MHLA NCUBE).
Across all productions, she collaborate closely with directors, cinematographers and production teams to deliver technically precise, narratively driven environments. My expertise includes set design, prop fabrication, spatial composition, material sourcing, construction supervision and on-set coordination across diverse production scales..
