Lila-Zoé Krauss (*1994, Alice Springs) is a German artist, wo lives and works in Vienna and Hamburg. She studied Fine Arts at the HFBK Hamburg in the class of Jutta Koether, at CalArts Los Angeles, and Sound Studies at UDK Berlin.
In 2024, Kunsthaus Hamburg presented Krauss’s first institutional solo exhibition, featuring the large-scale installation of her multimedia opera [After her Destruction]. The project was subsequently included in the group exhibitions if you follow the river long enough (2024; Projektraum Dietikon, Zurich), Shifting (2025, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf), not yet yours to imagine (2025, DAS WEISSE HAUS, Vienna), as well as In Zukunft Schreiben (2025–2026, ICAT, HFBK Hamburg).
Since 2025 the artist develops a new opera cycle called [The Art of Mind]. The project’s prologue scene Dream VI: [Station 161] premiered as a video installation in the group show Future Continuous at Kunsthaus Hamburg (2025-2026) and is currently on view in the group show Drifting Feast at Kaohsiung Musuem of Fine Arts in Taiwan (2026). End of April Krauss presented a glimpse of the new compositions and writings at the TURNS series at ZKM, after a one-month residency in February 2026. The project will be further developed during a residency at Cité International des Arts in Paris from September 2026 till January 2027.
Since 2020 she has released the vinyl albums [Freedom/Fiction] (2020) and [After her Destruction] (2024) under the pseudonym L Twills and has performed at numerous venues, including Kampnagel (Hamburg), NAVEL (Los Angeles), Pop-Kultur Festival (Berlin), Forum Stadtpark (Graz), Documenta15 (Kassel), HKW (Berlin), Secession, and Volkstheater (Vienna).
Krauss was awarded various grants including the Austrian Startstipendium for Performing Arts in 2023, the Annual Grant for Visual Arts Hamburg in 2025 and the Stiftung Kunstfonds Grant in 2026.
Since 2020 Krauss regularly composes and performs music for spoken theater.
Exhibitions, Performances & Screenings
2026
- Drifting Feast, group show, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
- [The Art of Mind], residency and concert, TURNS, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2025
- Solo Concert, CCC Congress, Messehallen Hamburg
- Future Continuous, group show, Kunsthaus Hamburg
- not yet yours to imagine, duo show, DAS WEISSE HAUS, Vienna
- Shifting, group how, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, presented by Julia Stoschek Foundation
2024
- [After her Destruction], solo show, Kunsthaus Hamburg
- if you follow the river long enough, group show, Dietikon, Zurich
- The Art of Mind: A quick Guide, Screening, Texte zur Kunst, Silent Green Berlin
- Apparatus III: [Superego], performance with Ophelia Young, Secession Vienna
- [After her Destruction], performance with Anto López Espinosa & Don Jegosah, Kampnagel, Hamburg
2023
- [After her Destruction], solo multimedia performance, Desertshore Festival, Volkstheater Vienna
- [After her Destruction], solo multimedia performance, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
- [After her Destruction], multimediale Performance, Popkultur Festival Berlin
2021
- Your Touch makes the Waves, group show, Cashmere Radio Berlin
- Inge, raise us fro the Dead!, Screening, Arts & Poetry Filmfestival, Vienna
- There Is No Satisfaction – transdisciplinary discourse program on the non-normative body, curation, ZOLLO, Hamburger Kultursommer
- Inge, raise us from the Dead!, shortfilm, Brechtfestival
2020
- Unsound Methods 1: Deadly Vibrations, solo show, Gallery Oel-Früh, Hamburg
- [Freedom/Fiction], video performance, Chaos Computer Club
- Detritus of a Memory, sound installation, HFBK GRAD SHOW
Theater and other Projects
2026
- Too my little Boy, composition, Regie by Marie Bues,
Thalia Theater Hamburg
2025
- Verhandlung der Träume, composition & live music, Regie by Marie Bues, Schauspielhaus Wien
- Stück aus Holz, composition, Regie by Marie Bues, Staatstheater Kassel
2024
- chronik der laufenden entgleisungen, composition & live music, Regie by Marie Bues, Schauspielhaus Wien & Schauspielhaus Graz
- ROM, composition & live music, Regie by Luk Perceval, Volkstheater Wien
2023
- Prima Facie, composition, Staatstheater Hannover
2022
- Wunschproduktion, composition, Sibylle Peters,
FUNDUS Theater Hamburg - Shefarer: der Film, composition, Geheimagentur Hamburg
2021
- Medeamaterial, Regie by Tom Kühnel and Jürgen Kuttner, composition, Staatstheater Augsburg
- In Zeiten des Verrats, composition, Literaturfest Nantesbuch
- Die Physiker, composition & live music, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Selected Concerts
2026
TURNS (ZKM, Karlsruhe), MQ-Summer stage (Vienna),
ZOLLO (Hamburg)
2025
Chaos Computer Club Congress (Hamburg)
2024
Sägezahn Festival im WUK (Vienna), Detect-Classic Festival, Secession (Vienna), Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kampnagel (Hamburg), Odeon Theater (Vienna), Salon des Amateurs (Düsseldorf)
2023
Forum Stadtpark (Graz), Volkstheater (Vienna), Flucc (Vienna), Popkultur Festival (Berlin)
2022
Documenta Fifteen (Kassel), Kvaka Art Space (Belgrade), Import Export (Munich), Gans Anders Festival (Innsbruck), Stubnitz (Hamburg), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Fitzroy (Berlin)
2021
Lichthoftheater (Hamburg), Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, MS Artville (Hamburg)
2020
Chaos Computer Club Congress (Online), Cashmere Radio (Berlin), Stubnitz (Hamburg), Byte Fm, Fitz Unsigned
2019
Übel&Gefährlich (Hamburg), Montez-Press-Radio (NYC), LA Art Book Fair, Rec Center (Los Angeles), NAVEL (Los Angeles), California Institute of the Arts, Garbicz Festival (Poland)
2018
HALLO-Festspiele (Hamburg), Fusion-Festival, Garbicz-Festival (Poland), International Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Live-Art-Festival Kampnagel, Reeperbahn Festival, Ferdinand Försch & Friends HALLO-Festspiele, Gängeviertel, Golden Pudel Club (Hamburg), Garbicz Festival (Poland), Off the Radar (Hamburg)