Performance, intervention, reading, conversation, concert, screeing
Spätschicht x Ligia Lewis
With Navild Acosta, Justin F. Kennedy, Ligia Lewis, Slauson Malone 1, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, Nii Kwate Owoo, Alexander Ghedi Weheliye and Weiter Schreiben
© Studio Pandan
For the fifth event in our Spätschicht series, Gropius Bau and Ligia Lewis invite you to a free live programme at Gropius Bau.
In reference to the current exhibition Ligia Lewis: I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR..., we have invited artists, writers and theorists whose practices resonate with Lewis’ approach to themes such as race, gender, violence and resistance. The interdisciplinary programme extends Lewis’ performances and films through a wide range of voices and perspectives.
Programme
Spätschicht is a monthly series of free events with an interdisciplinary programme ranging from talks, book discussions and film screenings to concerts and DJ sets. Sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, experimental and always open to clashing – a space to discover new things and shift perspectives.
Ligia Lewis has developed a multifaceted choreographic practice that spans performance, live installation and film. Based in Berlin since 2013, she works as an artist, choreographer and director presenting her work internationally on stage, in galleries or museums. 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. In 2025, she worked together with Cullberg – one of Sweden’s most renowned international dance companies. They premiered Some Thing Folk at the prestigious festival Tanz im August in Berlin. Lewis is the recipient of numerous awards, including the German theatre prize DER FAUST (2023) for A Plot, A Scandal; the Tabori Award (2021); a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2018) and a Bessie Award (2017). With her expansive interdisciplinary practice, Ligia Lewis is a central figure in redefining performance within the context of the visual arts and is Artist in Focus of the Berliner Festspiele in 2025.
During the event, photographs and video recordings may be made in which you may be recognisable. By attending, you consent to these recordings being used to communicate the event or exhibition.