(b. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico)
Lives and works in Berlin
Kiani del Valle is a multidisciplinary performative artist. She performs as a stage director, dancer, choreographer, actress, visual artist and curator. Her practice fuses contemporary dance and performance with disciplines such as cinema, photography, architecture, pop culture, technology, sound, video and drawing and always rooted through the lens of a Cariibean expereince.
Del Valle has performed her work in solo presentations as well as with her company KDV in insitutions including MoMA PS1, The Getty Museum, Julia Stoschek Collection, Copenhagen Contemporary Museum, Theatre des Westerns, Funkhaus Berlin, Barbican London, Silence Paris, National Sawdust Brooklyn, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Performance Space New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) of Puerto Rico, among others.
Del Valle has collaborated in stage direction, dramaturgy, choreography and performance with artrists such as Travis Scott, Lorde, Labrinth, Kelman Durán, Carla Morrison, LSDXOXO, Buscabulla, Rainao, iLe, Residente, Nathy Peluso, Lyra, VTSS, Aphex Twin, Rammstein, Billie Eilish, among others. She has also collaborated with renowed visual artists such as Claudia Comte, Doug Aitken and Mariana Simmet as a dancer an actress for video and performance pieces.