L Twills

01.11.2023 Support for Desire Marea at Stubnitz, Hamburg

09.12.2023 Desertshore Festival, Volkstheater Vienna

17th May 2024 [After her Destruction] solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Hamburg

BIO Lila-Zoé Krauß (*1994) is a multimedia artist, performer, producer and singer, also known as L Twills. Her practice unfolds around music production, live performance, installation, costume creation and video. In her work, she uses hybrid storytelling to question constructions of normativity in capitalist societies and their effects on mental and physical health. Krauß studied Fine Arts in Jutta Koether‘s class at HFBK in Hamburg, at Cal-Arts Los Angeles and Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at UdK in Berlin. Since early 2023 she is based in Vienna. Starting to perform in Hamburg‘s underground venues like the Golden Pudel Club in 2017, it is the same year she self-released the 7inch Single Young Boys/Too Late for the End, pressed by local vinyl pressing plant Ramona Records. First international attention L Twills with the release of her 12inch debut album [Freedom/Fiction] in 2020, which she produced in Los Angeles. Calinfornian online magazine XLR8R, British print magazine Electronic Sound and Austrian weekly Der Falter featured the album. It garnered positive radio play from Byte Fm, BBC, RBB and Dublab LA. Shortly after the [Freedom/Fiction] REMIX compilation appeared, featuring artists like Zoë Mc Pherson, John Tejada, Xiu Xiu and Tobias Rochmann). From 2017 till 2023 Krauß performed around the world including Documenta Fifteen, Forum Stadtpark Graz, Fluc Vienna, Volkstheater Vienna, NAVEL Los Angeles, Montez Press-Radio New York, HKW Berlin, International Summerfestival at Kampnagel, Popkultur Festival Berlin or Kvaka Art Space Belgrade. Since 2021 L Twills produced music for theaters such as Düsseldorfer Schausielhaus and Schauspiel Hannover. In spring 2024 she will develop the music for ROM at Volkstheater Vienna, under the direction of Luk Perceval. In March 2024 Kunsthaus Hamburg will present L Twills' first institutional solo exhibition, putting [After her Destruction] on full view.

RELEASES 2023 16.02.24 [After her Destruction] - 2x LP 12" - digital 02.02.24 Dream I: [Matrix] - video - digital 19.01.24 Apparatus I: [The Art of Mind] - video - digital 08.12.23 Illusion I: [Divisions] - single - digital Illusion II - single - digital Prolog [Mu'tants] - video - digital Prolog [Mu'tants] - single - digital 2020 [Freedom/Fiction] REMIXES - LP 12" - 300 Deadly Vibrations - dubplate - 1 [Freedom/Fiction] - LP 12" - 300 Antigone´s Dream - video - digital