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Studentin, Akademie Düsseldorf, Prof. Martin Gostner, Prof.in Yesim Akdeniz
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.
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