Bio

Photo Credit: Francesca Catastini

Eva Costa is a Berlin-based author, director and performer. She studied as an actor and voice actor. She made his debut at the Venice Biennale with the production “We’re talking about music” by Alimpiev / Zunin. The same year she graduated with honors in Philosophy, PISA University. Until 2014 she worked in international co-productions, among others SIGNA’s “Club Inferno” at the Volksbühne in Berlin. For the past 8 years, she has been developing installations, through which she investigates the relationship with the audience, the stage and the possibilities of sensory perception and reception by the spectator. 2015 her project “Dunkle Wasser / la nave dei folli” made international debut in Italy and Germany. Since 2017, thanks to the financial support of the Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa and Fonds Darstellende Künste, she has been able to continue her research, particularly on the topic of tactility in relation to the theatrical experience.​ Her work “Wunderkammer – a collection of imaginary landscapes” was produced and presented in 2018 at Uferstudios Berlin by Ausufern Program Series. 2019 she started the participatory, nomadic format “Pop-up teatro” for different Italian cities and communities (suspended due to the pandemic). “99”, a week of events presented in an experimental form of shared community research, debuted in Berlin in November 2021. “Die Schneekönigin-ein performatives Buch / La regina della neve-libro perfomatico” made its international debut in November 2022. The audio part was broadcast by Radio Rai 3 in four episodes between January and February 2023 and the book was nominated for the Gmund Award and Innovation Green Award 2023 and presented to the public for the first time at the UNFOLDED Festival in Gmund on May 23. In February 2024 the work, in its complete form, was presented at the Venice Biennale for the International Kids’ Carnival program in the form of an immersive installation. At the same time, Eva still works as a voice actor in numerous international projects.