LEIRE LLANO
 



www.leirellano.com
hola@leirellano.com
+34 675080651










  • EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Deusto (Basque Country) – University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Master’s Degree in Digital Arts
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Graduated with Honors

Photography Training
Blackkamera, Bilbao
Photographic laboratories, projects, and creative processes, Santa, Argentina
Introduction to calligraphic printmaking, experimental techniques, and photogravure, 
La Taller, Bilbao

Classical and Contemporary Dance Training
La Fundición, Muelle 3, Bilbao
Henry Juriens Studio, Amsterdam
Área, La Caldera, La Poderosa, Barcelona




  • SKILLS & EXPERTISE
Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Bridge, and Lightroom
Audiovisual creation, illustration, and photography
Web, graphic, multimedia, and editorial design
Transdisciplinary project creation, coordination, and documentation of artistic processes





  • ARTISTIC PRACTICE
Freelance artist focused on graphic and audiovisual work: www.leirellano.com

Lecturer, technical advisor, and mentor for the Master’s in Digital Arts at IUA (Institute of Audiovisual Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Long-term collaborations with:
  • L’animal a L’esquena, Creation Center (María Muñoz / Pep Ramis), www.lanimal.org
  • La Intrusa Danza (Damián Muñoz / Virginia García), www.laintrusadanza.com
  • Cia. LaTaimada (Olga Álvarez), www.lataimada.com
  • NU2’s, Association for Creation and the IDN Festival (Image, Dance, and New Media)

Artistic coordinator and co-founder of the online contemporary dance magazine Compasbcn, funded by the Generalitat of Barcelona





  • SELECTED WORKS
  • & PROJECTS 
“NOTWITHSTANDING” – Audiovisual creation for Basque choreographer Blanca Arrieta
Premiere at Barakaldo Theatre, March 2024
www.leirellano.com/notwithstanding | www.blancaarrieta.com/notwithstanding

“SAST!” – On-stage video creation for Basque choreographer Matxalen Bilbao
Premiere at La Fundición Theatre, Bilbao

“ENTER” – Video creation with choreographer Damián Muñoz
Premiere at Kursaal, Donostia

Festivals and Installations
Vitoria-Gasteiz Video Festival | Napolidanza (cover of Il Coreografo Elettronico, 11th edition), Naples | Cinedans, Amsterdam | VAD, Girona | Videokorks – Dance On Screen – The Place, London | BAD Festival – La Fundición, Bilbao | CaixaForum, Barcelona | Tensdansa Festival, Terrassa | Foro Escena, Gijón | Santa Mònica Art Centre, Barcelona | ACT Festival, Bilbao

Works archived in
Media Library of CaixaForum, Barcelona | Video Archive of Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Vitoria





  • ONGOING RESEARCH
  • & PAST COLLABORATIONS
Ongoing reserach with Basque choreographer Blanca Arrieta:
“Layers” (graphic publication forthcoming), “Unseen Landscapes”, “Still and Moving”, “Misseen / Breathe”

Antzoki Ibiltaria – Concept and original idea with Maitane Zalduegi
Itinerant theatre performance on a tourist bus through Bilbao, with Gurutze Beitia, Iñaki Maruri, Mitxel Santamarina
www.antzokiibiltaria.com

“Cuando el cuerpo habla” – Residency and collaboration at Dantzagune, Sortutakoak 7, with Olga Álvarez. Presented within the exhibition “Coreografías para no bailar”, Donostia

Documentation of creative processes, workshops, and presentations by Julyen Hamilton, Benoît Lachambre, and Marta Galán, CalderaEx-press-T43, La Caldera

Artistic coordination and co-creation with Toni Cots (www.cra-p.org) in multidisciplinary projects and itinerant artist encounters: “The Journey”, “From the Body as Classical Image to the Mediatized Body”, “God-Dog”
Organized by DBM (Danse Bassin Méditerranée), Carovana Association, L’animal a l’esquena, and Danças na Cidade (Lisbon, Sardinia, Girona)






  • ILLUSTRATION &
  • MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORK

Illustration – Handcrafted illustrated ceramic series, custom collections for Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
www.leirellano.com/miscelánea

MultidisciplinaryIllustrated Improvisations: participatory performances exploring environmental culture with one musician and two illustrators
www.leirellano.com/investigación





  • WORKSHOPS &
  • TEACHING
Annual workshop “Photography, Self-Discovery, and Fanzine”
Deusto Campus Cultura, University of Deusto, Bilbao

Interdisciplinary creativity workshops, 
Bilbao City Council Equality Department

Mediation workshops with adolescents in collaboration with dance company Input,
“Juana Bizkarra”, Teatro Muxikebarri, Getxo

Annual movement, improvisation, and body expression workshops,
Anima Eskola

Creativity workshops for adolescents with intellectual disabilities, 
CIFP Elorrieta Erreka Mari LHII, Bilbao

Advisory sessions on entrepreneurship in cultural and creative industries, 
“Leinn Arts” degree, BilbaoEkintza & Mondragon University

Workshops with Toni Cots: “The Body as a Place of Identity” (OMEGA, Austria) and “From the Body as Classical Image to the Mediatized Body” (Girona, Lisbon, Cagliari, Sardinia)





  • LANGUAGES
Spanish, english, dutch, basque and catalan.