Klavs Liepins (he/him), (b. 1991, Latvia) is a freelance multimedia artist based in Iceland. He started his studies at the Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga in 2010. He moved to Iceland in 2012 where he continued his BA at the Icelandic University of the Arts in Contemporary Dance, graduating in 2018.
In his practice, he deals with the challenges of identity in the Western world and he employs the body, detaching it from the social constructs. Klāvs uses the mediums of film, performance and video art as his main artistic expression.