Mariama Lechleitner is an Amsterdam-based costume designer, costume maker, performance artist, and critical costume researcher.

After training as a women’s dressmaker in Biasca, Switzerland, she quickly followed her passion for theater. This journey led her to work with renowned institutions such as Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, Circus Monti, Bayreuth Festival, Lucerne Theatre, Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera New York, and the Nationale Opera & Ballet Amsterdam, among others.
She later studied costume design and performance arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, graduating with top marks in 2021. During this time, she developed a strong interest in critical costume research, focusing on the relationship between body and space as a way to explore the deeper meaning of the term “costume.”
Mariama’s debut as a costume designer was in 2008 with the production Die Zitronen Prinzessin by Puppentheater Bleisch. She went on to design for Rinaldo and Iphigenie en Aulide at Brig Barock, as well as Sweeney Todd at Theater Orchester Biel-Solothurn.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in Moscow and New York as part of Innovative Costume of the XXI Century – The Next Generation.


Her first solo exhibition, Ein Raum, Ein Körper, Eine Unterhaltung, was presented at Hole of Fame Dresden.