Ligia Lewis. study now steady

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We are thrilled to collaborate with DANCE Festival München 2025. Presenting artists who are pushing boundaries of dance, music and visual arts, the following programme at Haus der Kunst aims to explore liveness as a new form in artistic practice – an underlying discourse in our programme.

The live exhibition “study now steady” presents recent works by Berlin-based artist and choreographer Ligia Lewis (b. 1983 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), bringing insights into her practice as a key figure in redefining performance in museum and art galleries. Blending the formats of performance, durational live installation and video, three of Lewis’s major works invite us to confront a confluence of processes that disrupt normative conception of the body. At the same time, her work interrogates the traces of family history, memory, and the unknown, often marked by physical and emotional intensities by which comedy and tragedy collide.

Admission to the exhibition is free.

Curated by Xue Tan and Marlene Mützel

“Ligia Lewis. study now steady” is presented by Haus der Kunst in cooperation with International DANCE Festival München.

Duration

24.5. – 1.6.255

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deader than dead, Ligia Lewis
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