based in Eindhoven, NL

claraschweers@gmail.com
@claerira

KVK 87225832
BTW-ID NL004384119B80

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Clara Schweers is a designer whose part digital - part physical body of work developed during her Masters in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven. Her graduation project and auto-theoretical multimedia installation “Into each other” was nominated for the Gijs Bakker Award 2022, expanding on the constraints and possibilities of computer-generated bodies in moving images. Through her embodied and material practice she distorts predetermined motions of stock bodies, generating sets of behavioral qualities, originating from within liquid-crystal-displays. Her interest in narration accompanies Clara through her object-based and cinematic compositions leaving the viewer unable to distinguish between glass, ceramics, and the glossy textures of computer-generated images.

Glass has been the continuous element throughout her work over the past four years. During her Bachelor studies, her graduation project of glass objects entitled ‘Waters’,  was awarded as the winner of the Future Objects & Materials category of the one-year-long research program Water Futures at A/D/O in Brooklyn.

Clara is part of the female collective Many to Many, which formed during a residency in 2021 at an old monastery in Germany working alongside the idea of the Genius Loci – the spirit of the place. Sprung from the collective, she became further intimate with the two designers Delphine Lejeune (BE) and Kurina Sohn (KR). Together they form the trio DL-KS-CS, questioning the categorizations, interspecies connection, and digital hybrids throughout their projects, one of which is currently on view at the Museum of Applied Art and Design in Vilnius, Lithuania during Invisibles. Clara recently participated in the Group Show Pools of Swallowed Grounds which was previewed during the Mayrit Biennale at Casabanchel.

Education

2020 - 2022 MA Contextual Design/ Cum Laude, Design Academy Eindhoven, NL

2014 - 2019 BA Industrial Design/ Cum Laude, School of Design Pforzheim, DE

Experience
       since 2019, Freelance Projects for MKV, Sabine Tress, Noam Toran
       2017 - 2018, Internship at Studio Dror, New York

Group Exhibitions
       currently, We Crave Blood, Rawart Gallery, Solo Show by Noam
                         Toran including Short Film Leave! Me: Here
       currently, The Invisibles, Museum of Art and Design, Vilnius
                        BTTRUE

       2023, The New Current, Brutus, Rotterdam
       2023, Tec Art, Worm, Rotterdam
       2022, Design Academy Graduation Show, Microtuin, Eindhoven
       2022, De Snoepwinkel, Plan-B, Eindhoven
       2022, Pools of Swallowed Grounds, Casabanchel, Madrid
       2022, Multilogue digital, Mouches Volantes, Cologne
       2022, Multilogue analog, Gold + Beton, Cologne

2021, Genius Loci, Klosterstuben, Bremm
2019, Embracing Exchange, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
2019, Design in public space. Water, Cieszyn
2019, Design-Förderpreis Enzkreis, Pforzheim
2019, A/D/O Water Futures Exhibition, New York
2019, Amplifikation, Milan Design Week, Milan
2017, Designparkour, Passagen, Cologne

Awards/ Nominations
        2022, Gijs Bakker Award Nominee

2019, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Fellowship
2019, Design-Förderpreis des Landratsamtes Enzkreis, Nominee
2019, A/D/O Water Futures Design Challenge, Winner

Talks
        2023, MA Talk, Design Academy Eindhoven 
        2022, The Rythm of the Body, Panel Discussion moderated by Gabriel Maher during Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

Residency

2021, Genius Loci, 101.PS Space, Bremm

Press

2019, Clara Schweers, Ein Portrait, JfK Journal
2019, Waters, Interior Design Mag
2019, Waters, A/D/O exhibits leading design solutions, Its Nice That
2019, Waters, A/D/O
2018, Waters, Core77
2018, Waters, A/D/O’s Water Future Design Challenge, It’s Nice That
2017, Saitens, Architektur & Wohnen
2016, Saitens, ‘Saitens’ Chair By Clara Schweers, Ignant
2016, Saitens, designboom