Ligia Lewis

Ligia Lewis works as an artist, choreographer, dancer and director. She presents her work on stage, in a gallery or museum, through film or exhibition format. For Lewis, choreography is the movement of ideas across bodies meticulously conceived, crafted and directed – a political act, a writing against the grain of the racial regime of representationalism and (Black) erasure. Lewis’s works are often marked by physical and emotional intensities by which comedy and tragedy collide. With her expansive interdisciplinary practice, Lewis is a central figure in redefining performance within the context of the visual arts.

Lewis has presented her work in multiple venues across Europe, the US and abroad. In autumn 2023 she opened her first solo exhibition “study now steady” at the Center for Arts, Research and Alliances in NYC. A survey of her stage works was presented at HAU Hebbel am Ufer entitled “Complaint, A Lyric” in the same year. She was a participating artist in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.

As an Artist in Focus of the Berliner Festspiele in 2025, she has been represented with a concert performance at MaerzMusik, an exhibition at the Gropius Bau as well as with her new commissioned work “Wayward Chant”, which will be premiered on 28 and 29 November as part of the Performing Arts Season.