Lisa Simpson 
agentecostura@gmail.com

Education

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

Residencies and Grants 

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
2014 BBK – Künstlerhaus Ulm

Selected Performances

2023
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, Plants will Remember You if you mess with them Enough, 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 Güntaler 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, Curitiba
Camarim Teatro Paiol, Curitiba

Selected Exhibitions

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