With I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR…, the Gropius Bau presents the most extensive solo exhibition by artist-choreographer Ligia Lewis to date. Opening on 15 October 2025, the exhibition brings together new and existing works displayed on the ground floor and in the atrium of Gropius Bau. Based in Berlin since 2013, Lewis has developed a multifaceted choreographic practice spanning performance, live installation, and film. For her, choreography is the movement of ideas across bodies — meticulously conceived, crafted, and directed. It is a political act: a writing against the grain of representational regimes and the (Black) erasure they perpetuate. Her work circles around themes of race, gender, violence and resistance, exploring how these dynamics haunt and shape the present.
I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR… also features the new commission Wayward Chant, conceived especially for the atrium of Gropius Bau. Over the course of the exhibition, this work unfolds and evolves within the space, culminating in two evening-length performances on 28 and 29 November as part of the Performing Arts Season 2025/26.
With her expansive interdisciplinary practice, Ligia Lewis is a central figure in redefining performance within the context of the visual arts — her work blurring boundaries between dance, installation, film, and theatre, and demanding from the audience not only to watch, but to feel, think and unlearn. Exhibition lasts till 18.1.26
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