Lissy Willberg (b. 1989, East-Berlin) lives and works in Leipzig (DE).
mail[at]lissywillberg.info
Lissy Willberg is a sound and movement artist and visiting lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (DE). 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 within. These site-specific constellations blur the boundaries between being, performing and participating. After graduating from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (2020), post-graduate studies followed at the Dutch Art Institute (2022) as well the Postnatural Independent Program (2023).
Upcoming
2023 Publication, conference anthology, »Land}schaf(f)t{Bildung/Performance/Teilhabe,«
[transcript] Publishing;
»membra(I)nes,« 12th Gender Studies Association Annual Conference
Education
2023 Independent Study Program, Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid (ESP)
2022 MA Art Praxis, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem (NL) 2020 Diploma, Expanded Cinema,
Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer, Leipzig (DE) 2018 Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw (Guest),
Spatial Activity, Prof. Roman Wozniak, Warsaw (POL) 2017 Städelschule
Frankfurt (Guest), Fine Art, Prof. Judith Hopf / Gerry Bibby, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
2014 Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Media Art, Leipzig (DE)
Participations
2023 (w Class Performative Arts) Radical Receptionist, HGB Gallery, Leipzig (DE)
2022 (w Class Performative Arts) International Conference: Any | One Day the Future Has Died.
Impossible Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (DE);
The Book of Curiosities, Kunsthalle Görlitz (DE); DAI Aeroponic Acts, Centrale Fies, Dro (IT);
Zoustant, Berlin (DE); »Land}schaf(f)t{Bildung/Performance/Teilhabe«, University of Coblenz (DE)
2021 Sensual Havoc, Subbacultcha, De School, Amsterdam (NL); DAI, Posttheater, Arnhem (NL);
Grabeland (Future Splendors), Leipzig (DE); All corners made to be leaned,
Kunsthaus Rhenania, Köln (DE) 2020 Drift, Fonda, Leipzig (DE); Talkies, a&o Kunsthalle,
Leipzig (DE) 2019 Baby Faust, with Clara Hausmann, NYG West, Leipzig (DE);
Please divide in groups of II or III, Kunstverein Leipzig (DE) 2018 Going Through Grids,
Bar Babette, Berlin (DE); Kleine Bottle, Kunstverein Leipzig (DE) 2017 All Systems Are True,
Halle 14, Leipzig (DE) 2016 Techlayer/Scenario 2, Westwerk, Leipzig (DE)
2015 How to divide, Galerie KuB, Leipzig (DE) 2014 Kaiserpanorama, Pracht, Leipzig (DE)
2013 Get Spooked, Singer Sweat Shop, Rotterdam (DE)
Grants
2023 Working grant, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony; Scholarship,
Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn (DE) 2022 Working grant, Cultural office of the city of Leipzig (DE)
2021 Project funding: Cultural office of the city of Leipzig (DE); Project funding:
German Academic Scholarship Foundation / Studienstiftung (DE); Project funding:
Cultural office of the city of Leipzig (DE) 2020 Scholarship, International Summer Academy
of Fine Arts, Salzburg (AUT); Project funding, Marianne Ingenwerth-Stiftung (DE); Project funding,
Association of the Friends of HGB Leipzig (DE) 2017 Scholarship, German Academic
Scholarship Foundation / Studienstiftung (DE)
Teaching activities
since 2021 Artistic associate at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Performative Arts,
Prof. Isabel Lewis, Leipzig (DE) 2018 – 2019 Tutor at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig,
Expanded Cinema, Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer, Leipzig (DE)
Residencies & Summer Courses
2023 tanz:digital – Process, Dynamics, Discourse, Art Centre Bethanien, Berlin (DE);
2022 Residency, TANZPAKT TanzRaumGörlitz (DE); 2020 Collaborative
lecture performance by Ahmet Öğüt, Salzburg (AUT)
2019 Other Voices by Lisette Smits, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
Other activities
2023 Co-Moderation, »Showing the process,« HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts, Dresden (DE)
2022 (w Class Performative Arts) contribution to Institute for embodied creative practices
“Internalized Institution,” Shedhalle Zurich (CH);
Moderation, YAWI #8, HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts, Dresden (DE);
Workshop “Exploring Sonic Interbeing,” Kunsthalle Görlitz (DE);
Workshop “Listening to Touch,” Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig (DE)
Publications
2023 Conference anthology »Land}schaf(f)t{Bildung / Performance / Teilhabe«
2022 Wir arbeiten dran #2, you are warmly invited 2021 Wir arbeiten dran #1, you are warmly invited
2019 Not Here, Not Now / Infected Memories
Projects
2021 Gräserner Handschuh, exhibition project on interspecies relationships and
diffracting perspectives on land and landscape 2014 Initiator of Hold Hands: platform for
female* / queer poetry, performance, video and installation art 2013 Founding
member of Pracht e.V.: Association for experimental music, Leipzig (DE)
Curatorial
2021 Grabeland - Future Splendors #2 with works by Judith Crasser, Ayala Guy, Jan Hashagen,
David Rank, Schmidt & Ruppert, Lilian Walters & Rahel Zaugg, in several
allotment gardens, Leipzig (DE); Grabeland - Future Splendors #1 with works by
Peter Hermans, Steph Joyce, Inga Kerber, Peggy Pehl & Anne Schmidt, in several allotment gardens,
Leipzig (DE); Hold Hands #2 with works by Monika Gabriela Dorniak, Sarafina McLeod & Sunny Pfalzer, Kunstverein Leipzig (DE) 2014 Hold Hands #1 with works by Eliza Ballesteros, Hjördis Behncken,
Judy Langer & Frauduleus, Pracht e.V., Leipzig (DE)
Lissy Willberg (b. 1989, East-Berlin) lives and works in Leipzig (DE).
mail[at]lissywillberg.info
Lissy Willberg is a sound and movement artist and visiting lecturer at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (DE). 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 within. These site-specific constellations blur the boundaries between being, performing and participating. After graduating from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (2020), post-graduate studies followed at the Dutch Art Institute (2022) as well the Postnatural Independent Program (2023).
Upcoming
2023 Publication, conference anthology, »Land}schaf(f)t{Bildung/Performance/Teilhabe,«
[transcript] Publishing;
»membra(I)nes,« 12th Gender Studies Association Annual Conference