Contact:
frankeclara@aol.com
Working with analogue photography, ceramics, video and costume the work of Clara Franke (Hamburg 1998) explores feminist ecologies, bodily autonomy and fluid forms of identity. Challenging patriarchal divisions between humans and nature, she focuses on building an intimate world shaped by a tactile, ethereal visual language and in-camera effects. Like a sensual myth, her practice unfolds as an unhinged ritual. Her images become her playground and sanctuary.
This way of working is strongly informed by an experience with a decade-long eating disorder, a background in contemporary dance and her personal community. Led by feminist ecology, she imagines a future which functions under liberated social rules, highlights nature as a goddess, embraces the hydrocommons and celebrates the queer.
She graduated with an MFA in Lens Based Media from the Piet Zwart Academy in Rotterdam in 2024, and her work has been exhibited internationally since as for example in Paris, Arles, Helsinki and Amsterdam.
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
Strategy of Gestures, Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki Analog Festival, Helsinki, Finland, 2026
States of Becoming, Art Rotterdam, The Ace Project, 2026
The Living Form, The Ace Project, Rotterdam, 2026SO’26,
Fotomuseum Hilversum, 2026 (upcoming)
SO’26, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, 2026
Putting face into soil, licking the wormy pile, Filth, Amsterdam, 2026
Otherworlds(Solo), Projectspace 38/40, Amsterdam, November 2025
Curated by Art Icon: Sex and Politics (Bastille Design Center, Paris, 2025), Visages/Faces (Arles, 2025), Corporeality (Bastille Design Center, Paris, 2024).
Currently, Currently, Currently V2, Rotterdam 2024
Eye Research Labs screening, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, 2023
Screening of short film Amber, Weelde, Rotterdam, 2023
Waterhouse Gallery, Groningen 2020
Contact:
frankeclara@aol.com
Working with analogue photography, ceramics, video and costume the work of Clara Franke (Hamburg 1998) explores feminist ecologies, bodily autonomy and fluid forms of identity. Challenging patriarchal divisions between humans and nature, she focuses on building an intimate world shaped by a tactile, ethereal visual language and in-camera effects. Like a sensual myth, her practice unfolds as an unhinged ritual. Her images become her playground and sanctuary.
This way of working is strongly informed by an experience with a decade-long eating disorder, a background in contemporary dance and her personal community. Led by feminist ecology, she imagines a future which functions under liberated social rules, highlights nature as a goddess, embraces the hydrocommons and celebrates the queer.
She graduated with an MFA in Lens Based Media from the Piet Zwart Academy in Rotterdam in 2024, and her work has been exhibited internationally since as for example in Paris, Arles, Helsinki and Amsterdam.
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
Strategy of Gestures, Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki Analog Festival, Helsinki, Finland, 2026
States of Becoming, Art Rotterdam, The Ace Project, 2026
The Living Form, The Ace Project, Rotterdam, 2026SO’26,
Fotomuseum Hilversum, 2026 (upcoming)
SO’26, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, 2026
Putting face into soil, licking the wormy pile, Filth, Amsterdam, 2026
Otherworlds(Solo), Projectspace 38/40, Amsterdam, November 2025
Curated by Art Icon: Sex and Politics (Bastille Design Center, Paris, 2025), Visages/Faces (Arles, 2025), Corporeality (Bastille Design Center, Paris, 2024).
Currently, Currently, Currently V2, Rotterdam 2024
Eye Research Labs screening, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, 2023
Screening of short film Amber, Weelde, Rotterdam, 2023
Waterhouse Gallery, Groningen 2020