Klara Kofen is an opera maker, writer, researcher and artist.

She is the co-artistic director of Waste Paper Opera, an interdisciplinary collective who create and produce new works of sound-based multimedia live art, facilitate workshops and curate performance series. Her practice encompasses sound, text, costume design, light, performance and film. She is interested in finding new forms of cross-disciplinary collaboration, the history and future of alternative modes of cohabiting, Early Modern history and historiography, opera as a medium in the context of Western intellectual history and as a material simulation of different forms of synthesis.

Recent projects include “Free to Choose” a collaboration between Waste Paper Opera, Bahar Noorizadeh and Rudá Babau (Open Worlds Open Systems 1_Open Worlds, 2023), “Dead Cat Bounce”, a collaboration between Waste Paper Opera and Gary Zhexi Zhang (live premiere at Somerset House, sound installation at Medialab Matadero OpenLAB#01, 2022), and “Good Soup” (with Ensemble Molière, National Centre for Early Music, 2022). Other work has been shown at Glasgow International, IMT Gallery, BOMB Factory Artist Film Festival, the Ashmoleon Museum, Kings Place and CCA Glasgow.