Clara Franke is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice seamlessly integrates photography, filmmaking, costume design or ceramics.
Her mostly analog photography documents her surroundings, the communities she exists in, friendships, the places she travels to, and the worlds she wishes to build. Projects often revolve around the themes of community, body politics, (eco-)feminism, mysticism and consumerism, crafting a deeply intimate narrative.
A mystical, textured space, viscerally calming through muted colours and symmetry. No matter if documenting counter culture communities, fashion photography or press images and music videos for musicians and DJs; her soft, intimate signature is 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 based in Amsterdam, and is working on her next publication.
Contact
frankeclara@aol.com // @frankeclara
Exhibitions/Screenings/Publications
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 multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice seamlessly integrates photography, filmmaking, costume design or ceramics.
Her mostly analog photography documents her surroundings, the communities she exists in, friendships, the places she travels to, and the worlds she wishes to build. Projects often revolve around the themes of community, body politics, (eco-)feminism, mysticism and consumerism, crafting a deeply intimate narrative.
A mystical, textured space, viscerally calming through muted colours and symmetry. No matter if documenting counter culture communities, fashion photography or press images and music videos for musicians and DJs; her soft, intimate signature is 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 based in Amsterdam, and is working on her next publication.
Contact
frankeclara@aol.com // @frankeclara
Exhibitions/Screenings/Publications
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