lives and works in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Yogyakarta
Larissa Klerx is a German artist currently studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Working across sculpture and installation, her practice explores the body as a site where personal experience, social structures, and existential vulnerability intersect.
Often beginning with her own physical presence, through processes such as body casting, scanning, or measurements, Klerx approaches the body both as subject and material. Her works emerge from autobiographical experiences yet expand toward universal questions of identity, fragility, resilience, and the ways in which bodies are shaped by social expectations and internalized norms.
Material plays a central role in this investigation. Klerx combines industrial and intimate materials: such as concrete, synthetic substances, sugar, glass, textiles, mirrors, or clothing size rings, to create sculptural constellations that oscillate between hardness and softness, protection and exposure, permanence and decay. These material contrasts mirror the ambivalences embedded in human experience: what nourishes us may also harm us; what protects us may simultaneously constrain us.
Many of her works negotiate states of transformation and threshold: between presence and absence, control and surrender, vulnerability and empowerment. Through physical scale, bodily forms, and sensorial surfaces, the sculptures establish an immediate relationship with the viewer’s own body.
Rather than presenting fixed narratives, Klerx’s installations open spaces of reflection where personal histories intersect with collective experiences of memory, desire, care, and endurance. Her work ultimately investigates how the body becomes a repository of lived experience and how sculpture can give form to those invisible tensions.
since 2019 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2023-2024 Institute Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta
2017-2018 International Fashion Design (BA) Amsterdam Fashion Institute,
successfully completed HBO-Propedeuse degree
Awards & Scholarships
2025
Meisterschülerin of Prof. Martin Gostner
2023–2024
Darmasiswa Scholarship by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia
1 Year exchange program at the Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta
2023
DAAD PROMOS Scholarship
Solo Shows
2024
As The Swallows Took Flight, Galeri Lorong, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Group Shows (selection)
2021–present
yearly exhibitions (Rundgänge) at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Class of Prof. Martin Gostner, Prof.in Yesim Akdeniz
2026 (upcoming)
Post taste, Kunsthaus Essen, Germany
2026
Performer in Remembrance, a collective work by Nadine Kinder, Yoga Nugraha Usman and Larissa Klerx, Düsseldorf, Germany
2025
Performer in mit Sand by Nadine Kinder, Düsseldorf, Germany
Somewhere… everyday. Die Politisierung des Alltäglichen, Frauenmuseum Bonn, Germany
Thieves of Time, Malkasten Düsseldorf, Germany
Fresh Positions, BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf, Germany
2024
Notes from the Underground, Kunstverein für den Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Germany
LAHAN LAHANA, TOKO LAHANA, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2023
Senses of a House II, Takustrasse 77, Cologne, Germany
Senses of a House I, Takustrasse 77, Cologne, Germany
Kunstpunkte 2023, E365 during Art Düsseldorf, Germany
2022
Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik, Cologne, Germany