Jaq Lisboa is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist from the Amazon region. She was born in Belém do Pará and has been living in Germany since 2005. She started her studies at UFPA (Universidade Federal do Pará) as a medical student, but soon changed to architecture. After two years of studies in Brazil, she moved to Germany where she finished her architectural studies at Leibniz Universität in Hannover. Afterwards she studied fine arts at HBK (Hochschule für Bildende Künste) Braunschweig, also in Germany. She is in search of lost memories and denied ancestors, consequences of colonial policies that extend to the present day. She has been trying to process this experience of loss through collective artistic projects, using various techniques depending on the specific needs of her projects. She works with performances, installations, costumes in an anti-colonial and anti-racist approach, seeking to restore humanity to the discriminated bodies.
At Ballhaus Naunynstraße, she works as a costume designer in plays such as Auf dem Mars sieht die Welt so aus (2023), directed by Marque-Lin, and in the production of the akademie der autodidakten Scar-City (2023). Jaq Lisboa also designed the set for Fernanda Costa’s dance performance Caminhos das Águas – Unaufhaltsames Fließen (2024).