*1994 in Cologne (DE)
lives and works in Eindhoven (NL)
KVK 87225832
VAT-ID NL004384119B80
Clara Schweers is a German designer and artist based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She was trained as an Industrial Designer before completing her Master’s in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven. Her practice lies at the intersection of glass and digital storytelling, exploring how gestures, narratives, and compositions from virtual spaces can be translated into tangible, expressive glass forms.
Working with glass—a medium both ancient and technologically advanced—Schweers reinterprets digital aesthetics through physical craft. Using 3D modeling software, she manipulates motion files from virtual environments to transform game-engine gestures into intimate choreographies. These distorted digital movements are reimagined through techniques such as glass fusing and flameworking, resulting in fragile yet precise mirrors, neon works, animations, and installations.
Her visual language is symmetrical, figurative, and abstract, often carrying a distinctly digital character. Through this approach, she explores forms that appear machine-made but are crafted entirely by hand. The high degree of symmetry in her work becomes both an aesthetic signature and a technical challenge—pushing the limits of manual precision to mirror the perfection of automated processes.
Schweers’ practice reflects a continuous dialogue between material and digital realms. By translating computer-generated movements into glass, she investigates how digital gestures can gain physical presence and emotional resonance through craft.
Education
2014 - 2019 BA Industrial Design/ Cum Laude, School of Design Pforzheim (DE)
Exhibtions
2025, PAN Amsterdam with Millen House Gallery (NL)
2025, Intelligences Artistiques, access (FR)
2025, Sunset Every Two Years, Klaipeda Biennial (LT)
2025, Affordable Art Fair with Millen House Gallery (NL)
2025, Bureau Fomo, Vienna Design Week (AT)
2025, Collectible Fair with Millen House Gallery (BE)
2025, Peeping Through, Asifose, Brussels (BE)
2025, Subsurface Scatterings, Apiece Gallery, (LT)
2025, Intermediate Glooms, Meno Parkas (LT)
2024, MKG Messe at MKG Hamburg (DE)
2024, Venice Glass Week, Palazzo Loredan (IT)
2024, Intermediate Glooms, Klaipėdos Kultūrų Komunikacijų Centras, Klaipeda (LT)
2024, Touch My Fantasy, Mauer, Cologne (DE)
2024, Alcova, Villa Bagatti Valsechi, Milan (IT)
2024, Material Matters, Frapant Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
2023, A Room with a View, Dordrechts Museum, Rotterdam (NL)
2023, Alcova Project Space, Miami (USA)
2023, The Alligator and the Bird, Kelderman en van Noort, Eindhoven (NL)
2023, Ashes & Sand, Schloss Hollenegg for Design, Hollenegg (AT)
2023, Objects for a New Kind of Society, Dutch Invirtuals, Milan (IT)
2023, We Crave Blood, Solo Show by Noam Toran incl Leave! Me: Here, Tel Aviv (IL)
2023, The New Current, Brutus, Rotterdam (NL)
2023, Tec Art, Worm, Rotterdam (NL)
2022, Design Academy Graduation Show, Eindhoven (NL)
2022, De Snoepwinkel, Plan-B, Eindhoven (NL)
2022, Pools of Swallowed Grounds, Casabanchel, Madrid (SP)
2022, The Invisibles, Museum of Art and Design, Vilnius (LT)
2022, Multilogue digital, Mouches Volantes, Cologne (DE)
2022, Multilogue analog, Gold + Beton, Cologne (DE)
2021, Genius Loci, Klosterstuben, Bremm (DE)
2019, Embracing Exchange, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
2019, Design in public space. Water, Cieszyn (PL)
2019, Design-Förderpreis Enzkreis, Pforzheim (DE)
2019, A/D/O Water Futures Exhibition, New York (USA)
2019, Amplifikation, Milan Design Week, Milan (IT)
2017, Designparkour, Passagen, Cologne (DE)
Recogintions
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, Off-screen, during iffr and Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam (NL)
2023, The New Domestic Landscape, Alcova Project Space, Miami (USA)
2023, MA Talk, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
2022, The Rhythm of the Body, Panel Discussion, Moderation: Gabriel Maher during Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
Residencies
2021, Genius Loci, 101.PS Space, Bremm (DE)