Clemens Lauer is a designer based in Karlsruhe/Germany and Marseille/France. He graduated at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe in 2019 and works as a freelance designer on self initiated projects and for clients as Kvadrat, Ganni, Fergy or Mephisto. His design practice includes using alternative methods of developing design, architectural interventions and setting up the spatial and design premises for numerous public and private spaces. A major aspect of his work is finding new solutions to utilize reused materials. Clemens Lauer is part of → Fan Collective.
Werkstatt Deutschland
Clemens Lauer
Schützenstraße 37
76137 Karlsruhe, Germany
info@clemenslauer.de
@lauerrr
Atelier France
Clemens Lauer
69 Boulevard Casanova
13014 Marseille
hello@lauerr.de
@lauerrr
Exhibitions, Awards, Teaching
- Über Treppen (und Leitern), Lecture
OTH Regensburg, 2025 - Design Masterclass, Teaching
CREAD, Aix-en-Provence, 2025 - Bitte nicht setzen!, Group Exhibition
Japanisches Palais, Dresden, 2025 - Residency and part of Sinopale 9
Sinop, Turkey, 2024 - Radiator, Group Exhibition with FAN
019 Gent, 2023 - Residency at La Reserve des Arts
Marseille, 2023 - Documenting the Moment – Material Archives
Lecture, HFG Karlsruhe, 2022 - Camekan Residence Program
Residency, IKSV, Istanbul, 2022 - Bratislava Design Week
Slovakia, 2021 - Avec Plesir (with Judith Milz)
Exhibition, Zentrale Karlsruhe, 2021 - Founding member of TVHIFI, exhibition space and bar
Karlsruhe, 2020 - Pure Gold: Upcycled, Upgraded!, touring exhibition
IFA, Worldwide, 2020 - ongoing - Residence (with FAN Collective), exhibition
Villa G., Karlsruhe, 2020 - German Design Award Newcomer,
Nominee, 2020 - Campus Interventions, Teaching/Workshop Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, 2019
- Scrap Life Project, special guest, exhibition
Ambiente Frankfurt, 2018 - Kulturelle Produktion in Karlsruhe, exhibition
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2018 - Simply Better Living (with kvadrat), exhibition, London Design Festival, Sommerset House, 2017
- Designpreis Halle, Top Ten, award and exhibition
Halle, Germany, 2017 - Design Is Ten Years Old, exhibitionwith kkaarrlls, Milan Desing Week, 2016
- Scholarship of ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2015
- Gunther-Schroff-Scholarship, Karlsruhe, 2015
- List of clients (selected): Mephisto, Kvadrat, Ganni, Möbel Ehrmann, tutto, Gottesauer, La Reserve des Arts, Greenline Foundation, Forest Art Project, Fergy-Berlin, ABA Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, Ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe