KIC is a physical theatre company led by Kristján Ingimarsson, a critically acclaimed Icelandic performer and director based in Denmark. The company is known for its limitless physical expression, visual precision and artistic curiosity, and became internationally recognised with the smash-hit BLAM!
In recent years, KIC has shifted its focus toward immersive performances and 360° video experiences, placing audiences directly at the centre of the action. Many works develop across multiple formats, such as the web series ROOM 4.1 (www.room4.one), which later evolved into the large-scale immersive performance ROOM 4.1 LIVE.
KIC also runs Hangar People, an artistic platform that expands these investigations. Hangar People pushes the borders between theatre, installation and game structure, creating intense Plexiglas installations and fast, idea-driven happenings in collaboration with other artists — often taking the work directly into public spaces.
KIC receives structural funding from the Danish Arts Foundation.
Selected Productions:
CITIZENS (2025) – A living art exhibition featuring nine citizens with different backgrounds exhibited in the centre of the city Premiered at the Waves Festival DK
Femina Fabula (2024) – Collaboration with Egnsteatret i Vordingborg
FF360 (2024) – A 360° VR installation featuring six international performance artists exploring feminine primordial force and identity
Hangar People (2023– ) – Examples of playable performances Love-Joy-Generosity, The Great Kill, Cell#42, Dreifuss, Rat Race
ROOM 4.1 (2019– ) – 35-episode web series exploring a surreal, ever-expanding universe of physical theatre and visual storytelling. (www.room4.one)
ROOM 4.1 – LIVE (2019) – An immersive performance where audiences step into a surreal movie set during the filming of the web-series Room 4.1
MORPH (2017) – In collaboration with Aarhus Theatre
AIRPORT (2015) – In collaboration with Republique, Copenhagen
BLAM! (2012) – Award-winning, internationally touring action-theatre production
THE KIC CORE
Kristján Ingimarsson – Artistic Director
Peter Rasmussen – Production Manager
Emilie Storm Petersen – Producer
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chairman: Hans Christian Gimbel – Executive Officer at ALICE cph
Treasurer: Rolf Heim – Theatre director at Vendsyssel Teater
Member: Arna Lára Pétursdóttir – Freelance Producer
Member: Jan-Jaap Cramer, CEO Vordingborg Havn
Kristján Ingimarsson – Artistic profile
Kristján Ingimarsson is a multitalented artist in the field of visual theatre. He is full of surprising and comic figures. His physical language is in constant development in a blend of mime, slapstick, acrobatics, clowning, dance and theatre. Stylistically, his theatre is characterized by high-energy, rhythmic sequences, surreal effects and comic as well as touching moments.
Ingimarsson’s performances typically take their starting point in twisted thought experiments about modern civilization in which a thesis is developed in flights of fancy into extremely funny insanity. Every performance is a new experiment, and a result of a close collaboration between artists from different disciplines such as architecture, the visual arts, music, films, dance and digital media. Ingimarsson is known as a sublime performer, but his work covers a wider spectrum. In recent years he has worked as a director of a number of site-specific projects in Denmark and Iceland, as well as created a series of ensemble works.
Kristján Ingimarsson (b. 1968). Originally from Iceland. Moved to Denmark in 1992. Trained, among other places, at the School of Stage Arts (the actors’ school at the performance art theatre Cantabile 2, DK), 1997. Founder and artistic director of Kristján Ingimarsson Company (1998), as well as freelance director, actor and performer.
2018: The Wilhelm Hansen Foundation awards Kristján Ingimarsson with an honor award for his artist achievements
2018: The Gaubiers Foundation awards Kristján Ingimarsson for his artist achievements
2018: Work Stipend Statens Kunstfond (The Danish Arts Foundation)
2017: The Danish Arts Foundation awards Kristján Ingimarsson for the performance MORPH
2012: Reumert Award winner for “BLAM!” in the category Special Prize of the Jury
2011: Work Stipend Statens Kunstfond (The Danish Arts Foundation)
2008: Work Stipend Statens Kunstfond (The Danish Arts Foundation)
2007: Town Artist in Akureyri, Iceland
2005: NRZ Best performance, “Art of Dying”
2003: Reumert Award nomination as This year’s specialty for “Art of Dying”
2003: Reumert Award nomination as best supporting actor (Kristján Ingimarsson) in Katrine Wiedemann’s “Stormen” (The Tempest)
1998: Reumert Award nomination as best cabaret for “Mike Attack”