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Clara Schweers is a German 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

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

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

Recognitions

2026
Projektförderung
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung

2025
Seed Grant
Stichting Stokroos

2024
Individueel beeldend kunstenaars
Vordekuunst, het cultuur

2024
Talentdevelopment Recipient
Stimulerings Fonds

2022
Gijs Bakker Award
Nominee

2019
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Fellowship

2019
Förderpreis des Landratsamtes Enzkreis
Nominee

2019
A/D/O Water Futures
Winner

Residencies/ Workshops

2025
Tetem Kunst, Nexus Program
Enschede (NL)

2025
Turba Glass, supported by Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung
Berlin (DE)

2021
Genius Loci, 101.PS Space
Bremm (DE)

Group Shows

2026
Genz All At Once, MO Museum (LT)
Vanitas in Use I, Innenkreis (DK)
RAD Art Fair, Bucharest (RO)
La Casa Magica, Nilufar Gallery (IT)
Not(es) for later, Cloud Seven (BE)
As Bloom Begins, Enseoul Gallery (NL)

2025
PAN Amsterdam, Millen House Gallery (NL)
Intelligences Artistiques, access (FR)
Sunset Every Two Years, Klaipeda Biennial (LT)
Peeping Through, Asifose (BE)
Subsurface Scatterings, Apiece Gallery (LT)
Intermediate Glooms, Meno Parkas (LT)

2024
MKG Messe, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (DE)
Venice Glass Week, Palazzo Loredan (IT)
Intermediate Glooms, KKKC (LT)
Touch My Fantasy, Mauer (DE)
Alcova, Villa Bagatti Valsechi (IT)
Material Matters, Frapant Gallery (DE)

2023
A Room with a View, Dordrechts Museum (NL)
Alcova Project Space, Miami (USA)
The Alligator and the Bird, Kelderman en van Noort (NL)
Ashes & Sand, Schloss Hollenegg for Design (AT)
Objects for a New Kind of Society, Dutch Invirtuals (IT)
The New Current, Brutus (NL)

2022
Design Academy Graduation Show, Eindhoven (NL)
Pools of Swallowed Grounds, Casabanchel (SP)
The Invisibles, Museum of Art and Design (LT)
Multilogue, Mouches Volantes (DE)

2021
Genius Loci, Klosterstuben (DE)

2019
Water Futures Exhibition A/D/O, New York (USA)

Work Index Mirrors Gas-discharge lamps

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