Eva Angelaka (b.1981 in Athens) is a Greek artist, Japanologist and researcher. She graduated Athens School of Fine Arts with honors and a state scholarship. She is a multidisciplinary artist engaging with mediums such as painting, silkscreen prints and ceramics, and has a parallel academic background in Asian (Japanese) Studies and intercultural communication. She holds a MSc in Asian - Japanese Studies from Lund University (2014) and Waseda univ., Tokyo, presenting her research on Japanese culture at various conferences. She has taught the Japanese language and contemporary Japanese studies at the Universities of Athens (EKPA) and University of Thessaly. Earlier in her career (2004- 2010), she studied the traditional martial art of Kendo (Japanese fencing) and culture while working in Japan for several years, as a Japanese interpreter and Japanese business consultant. Her past studies and long term living in Japan inform her artistic practice.
Eva has exhibited her work internationally, most recently in Tokyo (in Takashi Murakami’s art fair “Geisai”), Weimar, and Zurich supported by institutions such as ProHelvetia, IKY, and DAAD. Her first solo show took place in Zurich in 2021 funded by the Swiss Arts Council ProHelvetia, while her second solo show “Anemophilia” was presented by Mets Art Center in Athens. Selected group shows in Greece and abroad: Ionion Arts & Culture Center (2024), Geisai (2023), NYG Leipzig 2021, Kessanlis Art Space Platforms Project Athens 2021- 2022, Florina Museum of Contemporary Art 2021, Circuits and Currents 2022, St. Anton Austria (full room Mural at Hit the Sky Hotel) 2021, BioArtHub, iGEM2020-21 2020, The Breeder Gallery, 2020, Knack & Snack 2025, Bauhaus University 2024