Lisa Simpson 
agentecostura@gmail.com

Education

2022 Institut für Kunst im Kontext –  Universität der Künste. Berlin, Germany
2014 Master of Applied Arts – Emily Carr University of Art. Vancouver, Canada
2009 Bachelor of Visual Arts –  Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná. Curitiba, Brazil

Residencies and Grants 

2025 Recherchestipendium Klang Kunst – Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
2024 “Dressed in Sound” Verbindungslinien -BBK Bayern
2023 “Building Together” – Residency Currently Arts – Canada Council for the Arts
2023 Stipendienprogramm Musikfonds
2022 Stipendienprogramm Musikfonds
2021 Arbeitsstipendium Klang Kunst – Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
2020 Kulturprojekte Berlin Sonderstipendium – Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
2014 EU International Project “What’s the Deal” – Villa Waldberta, Munich

Selected Performances

2025
Sharper than a Needle – Münchner Kammerspiele, München
Des Filles Fantastique – O Santo Corte, Curitiba, Brasil
Agente Costura – Noiseberg, Berlin
Blurred Edges – QuarterPipe, Hamburg
VROUW! – Schuhkarton, Fusion Festival
Klingender Kiez – Festival für Selbstgebaute Musik, Berlin

2024
Microclima Festival – Cádiz, Spanien
Mapa de Ruído – Palma de Mallorca
Agente Costura – Deutsches Museum, München
Tyrant Studios – Vancouver, Kanada
Agente Costura – entangled sounds, KM28, Berlin
NNOI Festival – Zernikow, Brandenburg
Agente Costura and Angela Etcetera – Der Holländer, Sevilla, Spanien
Agente Costura and Angela Etcetera – Disgraça, Lissabon, Portugal

2023
Nähmaschinenduett – Kollabs, Münchner Stadtmuseum
BADABUM Festival – Zug, Switzerland
Music and Movement Mondays with Agente Costura – KW Studios, Vancouver, Kanada
Agente Costura & Ben Brown – Yellowhouse Art Center, Galiano Island Kanada
Agente Costura – Microvolumes 4.36 Sonoscopia, Porto, Portugal
Agente Costura – Chromatic Wednesdays, Apartment Projects, Berlin
Mapa de Ruído – Palma de Mallorca
Agente Costura – Audio Rebel, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Agente Costura & Angela Etcetera – Disgraça, Lisboa

2022
Agente Costura – Sonic Sound Space, Galerie Zeitzone, Berlin
Agente Costura with Marina Cyrino – Morphine Raum, Berlin
Nähmaschinenduett – An die Arbeit! Festival, Lokomov, Chemnitz
Agente Costura with Desterronics – Desterro, Lisboa
Agente Costura – FLUSS, Ausland Berlin

2021
Agente Costura & Angela Etcetera – T.A.T.V.2, Ausland Berlin
Nähmaschineduett – 21 Sunsets, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Equinox – Alps Moves, Bozen Italien
Equinox – BRUX Freies Theater, Innsbruck

2020
Agente Costura & Angela Etcetera – T.A.T.V., Ausland Berlin
Nähmaschineduett – Ich Brauche Eine Genie #12, online edition
VROUW! – Sentimental Punk, Kotti Shop Berlin
Agente Costura – Neon Kunst, Berlin

2019
Voll Stoff! 100 Jahre Bauhaus Festival – Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Stitching Movement and Sound – Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin
Agente Costura & Stephen Doyle – OCCII, Amsterdam
Agente Costura & Stephen Doyle – Varia, Rotterdam
Agente Costura & Stephen Doyle – Makroskope, Mülheim an der Rohr
Agente Costura & Stephen Doyle – Black Box, Münster
Nähmaschinenduett – Bauwhat! Darmstadt Staatsteater
Agente Costura – Museu Machado de Castro, Coimbra
Agente Costura: Pocket Show – Klang de Dinge, Schaubude Berlin
Agente Costura: Pocket Show – Making Futures – Plymouth College of Arts

2018
Agente Costura & Stephen Doyle – Auróra, Budapest, Hungary
Agente Costura & Stephen Doyle – Kulturni Centar LAB, Novi Sad, Serbia
Agente Costura – Savremena galerija Subotica, Subotica, Serbia
Agente Costura – Szabadkikötő, Pécs, Hungary
Agente Costura – La Casa de Hielo, Valencia
Agente Costura – Desterro, Lisbon
Agente Costura – Weed You, Barcelona
Agente Costura – Chair de Poule, Paris
Nähmaschnenduett – Feiern Statt Furchten, Dresden
Nähmaschinenduett – Zukunftsvisionen, Görlitz

2017
Nähmaschinenduett – Fabric/ate, Schneidertempel, Istanbul
Agente Costura – Let Me In Performance Festival, Instituto Cervantes, Berlin
Nähmaschinenduett – IKAT/eCUT, The Dark Side of Fashion, Jakarta
Kleider Machen Leute – Tatwerk Performance Forschung, Berlin

2016
Agente Costura – SiteFactory, Vancouver
Agente Costura – Spektrum Art and Science Community, Berlin
Agente Costura – Quiet Cue, Berlin
The Horse’s Improvisers Club – Iklectic Lab, London
Agente Costura – La Musa Festival, Vienna
sustainability songs – Creative Encounters Conference, University of Gießen

2015
Orquestra jam – Galeria Ybakatu, Curitiba
Agente Costura – Berliner Liste Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Agente Costura – Yearzero, Kukk Verein, Zürich
Zungenstitch – Fylkingen, Stockholm
Agente Costura – Humulus Lupulus Festival, Pfaffenhofen
Brush Skin Soft – Hundred Years Gallery, London
Brush Skin Soft – Deptford Cinema, London
Nähmaschinenduett – wertSTOFF zundSTOFF, Starnberg
Nähmaschinenduett – Museum Fünf Kontinenten, Munich
Brush Skin Soft – Grüntaler 9, Berlin

2014
Nähmaschinenduett – Schlachthof-Weekender, Bamberg
Nähmaschinenduett – Offene Nähwerkstatt Kabutze Greifswald, Germany
Nähmaschinenduett – Industriewelten, Straßenbahnmuseum Chemnitz, Germany
Monday Match – Bimhuis, Amsterdam
Sew me on our first encounter – OT301, Amsterdam
Agente Costura – Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
improv dancing musical sewing – Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Mine Agente – Arts Wells Festival, Canada
Pop Up Studio – Ampersand Gallery (CAT) Cologne
Month of Performance Art, Berlin
Going Underground – EU Project What’s the Deal, Munich
Kulturnacht – Künstlerhaus Ulm

2013
Agente Costura @ Grunt – Grunt Gallery, Vancouver
Agente Costura @ Launch! – Launch! Festival, Vancouver
Fashion Orchestra – Teatro Paiol, Curitiba

2012
Melancolisa – The GOOD Fashion Show, London
Agente Costura – Pop Up Upcycling Studio Forty7 Gallery, London
Des Filles Fantastique – Curitiba Fashion Week, Museu Oscar Niemeyer Curitiba
Camarim – Teatro Paiol, Curitiba

Selected Exhibitions

2024
Alligator Gozaimasu Festival, group exhibition, Kunstpavillon Alte Botanische Garten, München

2022
the synthesewing Construction orchestra – Errant Sound, Berlin
MontraFalante – Agente Costura, Sonoscopia and Saco da Baixa Espaço Hab, Coimbra Portugal

2019
Voll Stoff! 100 Jahre Bauhaus Festival  Akademie der Künste, Berlin

2017
Fabric/ate Schneidertempel, Istanbul

2015
Sewing Station Giftraum, Berlin
InterAktion Schloß Sacrow

2014
Agente Costura @ rosalux Rosalux Projektraum, Berlin
MAP – ART Brazilian Embassy, Berlin
Nähagentin Künstlerhaus BBK, Ulm
Transactants Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver

2013
Agente Costura @ Errant Bodies Errant Bodies, Berlin
Alteractions Alterations Altercations Concourse Gallery, Vancouver