Klāvs Liepiņš

Klāvs Liepiņš (b. 1991) started his studies at the Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga in 2010. He moved to Iceland in 2012 where he got his BA at the Icelandic University of the Arts in Contemporary Dance in 2018. After his studies he has collaborated with artists such as Sunneva Ása Weisshappel, Damien Rice, Helena Jónsdóttir, Contact Gonzo and more. He has performed amongst other for the Icelandic Dance Festival 'Everybody ́s Spectacular, International Contemporary Art Festival Survival Kit (LV), International Festival of Contemporary Theatre Homo Novus (LV), Ezera Skanas (LV) and People festival (Berlin, GE). He works as an artist for RVK Studios and is the project manager of the film festival Physical Cinema Reykjavik. In his artistic work his research topics include absurdity in the mundane, sustainability, dance outside of choreography, gender and identity issues in socio-political context. Klavs uses the mediums of performance and video art as his main artistic expression.