Igor Schiller (1996) is a Serbia-born, Amsterdam-based visual artist who graduated with a degree in photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2021. He works across photography, film and installation to explore how memory, heritage, and cultural identity shape personal and collective experience. Drawing from his family archive and the rituals of his Balkan upbringing, Schiller constructs fictional worlds where reality and imagination intertwine. His staged environments unite photography and scenography into cinematic installations that blur the boundaries between fiction and memory. Play is central to his process, it’s a way to rebuild, reinterpret, and test the narratives that define how we remember and relate to the past. Through humor, tenderness and an underlying sense of the uncanny, he reimagines the family archive as a living, evolving stage for stories of cultural continuity and change.
His work has been shown at Unfair Amsterdam, SEEEU - European Photography Month in Tokyo, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam, among others. In 2022 he was nominated for the FOAM Paul Huf Award, in 2024 he received the Mangelos Award as Serbia’s best young visual artist, and in 2025 was nominated by Organ Vida Festival to join the Futures Photography Platform.