[1] Now recognized principally as a performance artist expressing Inuit themes in music and dance, her innovative poetry has featured in international festivals.

She first studied drama at the Greenlandic Tukak Theatre in Fjaltring, Jutland (1978–79), before attending the Graphics Workshop in Nuuk (1979–80).

Her latest collection Arkhticós Dolorôs exhibits symbols and figures from traditional Greenlandic culture in her attempt to inspire a new look at the effects of climate change on the melting Arctic.

[2] Inspired by Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams, Kleemann had already used the title Arkhticós Doloros for her 2019 video performance recorded on the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier in the west of Greenland.

[3] Kleemann's installation ORSOQ (2012) incorporating bottles of seal oil has recently been acquired by the National Gallery of Denmark.