Clara Franke is a visual artist and designer with a practice that moves swiftly from its main focus, being lens based work, to costume and graphic design further to crafts such as ceramics.
Her photography documents those around her, the communities she exists in, the places she travels to, and the worlds she wishes to build. A mystical, soft, textured space in whose muted colours and symmetry a strong sense of calmness can be found. No matter if documenting counter culture communities, taking editorial images or collaborating with musicians on press images and music videos, the signature is obvious and clear.
Born in 1998 in Hamburg, Clara later studied and lived in Albuquerque (attending Media Arts Collaborative Charter School in 2015), Groningen (BA Design at Akademie Minerva 2022), Berlin (internship with THE PEOPLE° in 2021) and Rotterdam (MFA "Lens Based Media" at the Piet Zwart Institute 2024).
In 2021 Clara self published her first photo book called ORKZ, visualising the community and its inhabitants in an old hospital that she used to call her home as well.
Currently she is working on her next publication.
Contact
frankeclara@aol.com // @frankeclara
Exhibitions
Art Icon Paris 2024
Fresh Eyes Amsterdam 2024
Currently, Currently, Currently, V2 Rotterdam 2024
Short film “Amber” screened at Eye Museum Amsterdam 2023
Waterhouse Gallery, Groningen 2020
2.Place Film Competition “Abgedreht”, short film “Ana” 2014
Clara Franke is a visual artist and designer with a practice that moves swiftly from its main focus, being lens based work, to costume and graphic design further to crafts such as ceramics.
Her photography documents those around her, the communities she exists in, the places she travels to, and the worlds she wishes to build. A mystical, soft, textured space in whose muted colours and symmetry a strong sense of calmness can be found. No matter if documenting counter culture communities, taking editorial images or collaborating with musicians on press images and music videos, the signature is obvious and clear.
Born in 1998 in Hamburg, Clara later studied and lived in Albuquerque (attending Media Arts Collaborative Charter School in 2015), Groningen (BA Design at Akademie Minerva 2022), Berlin (internship with THE PEOPLE° in 2021) and Rotterdam (MFA "Lens Based Media" at the Piet Zwart Institute 2024).
In 2021 Clara self published her first photo book called ORKZ, visualising the community and its inhabitants in an old hospital that she used to call her home as well.
Currently she is working on her next publication.
Contact
frankeclara@aol.com // @frankeclara
Exhibitions
Art Icon Paris 2024
Fresh Eyes Amsterdam 2024
Currently, Currently, Currently, V2 Rotterdam 2024
Short film “Amber” screened at Eye Museum Amsterdam 2023
Waterhouse Gallery, Groningen 2020
2.Place Film Competition “Abgedreht”, short film “Ana” 2014