Evangelia VS (Abyss X) is a Cretan - Epidaurian multidisciplinary artist working across performance, music, dance, moving image, visual arts, writing, creative direction, as well as event curation and production. With an academic background in computer science and the performing arts, she holds a Master’s in Performance from Central Saint Martins.
She has released music on acclaimed labels AD 93, Halcyon Veil and Danse Noire, with her work also featured in fashion for Mugler, Luis de Javier, Julius and more.
Her collaborations extend to Grammy-nominated music producers Rabit and SOPHIE and Chinese-American filmmaker and visual artist Andrew Thomas Huang as well as César nominated film composer Fatima Al Quadiri.
Beyond music, Evangelia VS has contributed choreography, movement direction and video design to productions presented by the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the National Theatre of Greece and the Mediterranean Biennale. Her cross-disciplinary practice pulses with questions of embodiment, ecology, gender, heritage, vulnerability and power. It is a culmination of methodologies in aesthetic presentation resulting from cavernous groundwork and uninhibited experimentation. Traversing the space between the self and the collective, the real and the apocryphal, she crafts tableaux vivants where sound, movement and scenography converge through potent symbolism and a punk ethos.
Evangelia VS is the founder and curator of Nature Loves Courage Festival. She has presented and toured her work internationally at major festivals and cultural venues, including Art Basel Hong Kong, La MaMa (NYC), Audra Festival x Kino Pavasaris, National Sawdust, Tanzquartier Wien, Performance Space New York, Phoenix Central Park, 3537.org, La Gaîté Lyrique, ICA Miami, Art Basel Miami, Southbank Centre (Royal Festival Hall & Purcell Room), La Casa Encendida, VIERNUVIEL, the Biennale of Moving Image (Geneva), Small Epidaurus Theatre, HAU2, DOKUFEST, MONOM, Wysing Arts Centre and Tai Kwun among many others.
She is the recipient of grants from the Federal Republic of Germany, the Berlin Senate, Goethe Institut, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the Lower Manhattan Culture, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and The Region of Crete.
