www.lissywillberg.info

Lissy Willberg (b. 1989, East Berlin)
lives and works in Leipzig (DE).

Lissy Willberg is an artist, researcher, and educator specializing in performative arts. With a background in dance, they explore social and spatial dynamics through installations and performances based on participatory proposals. Movement scores and digital sounds create a research environment, for all attendees to encounter each other, while sculptures are positioned as dramaturgical markers guiding the recipients’ experience. These site-specific constellations blur the boundaries between being, performing and participating. At the core of Willberg’s work are texts that emerge as performance scripts, movement scores, exhibition manuals, research abstracts or essays.

Currently, Willberg is moving-researching along (im)possible demarcations between nature, culture, and technology. Their projects explore the materialities of ways of relating and pursue questions of collectivity and coexistence. For a few years, they’ve been testing artistic ways of documenting, preserving and archiving the performative.

After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (2020), Willberg completed an M.A. at the Dutch Art Institute (2022) and participated in the first Postnatural Independent Program (2023). In 2023, they received a working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (DE) as well as the Stiftung Kunstfonds (DE). Their work has been published by Cthulhu Books (ESP) and Transcript Publishing (DE). Since 2021, Lissy Willberg has been lecturing at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and accompanying the Performative Arts class led by Prof. Isabel Lewis.

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