1981年出生于奥地利格拉茨，自2007年以来定居柏林。他在柏林艺术大学完成艺术学业后，获得了伦敦中央圣马丁艺术学院的视觉艺术硕士学位，并在奥地利格拉茨大学获得博士学位。
在他的作品中，克劳斯将空间及其背景与观众的三角关系融为一体，尝试呈现个体在政治、文化和社会语境中的角色问题。克劳斯通常采用单一浅色调、部分具有建筑感的背景，创作的图像不仅代表身体，更实际上是身体：在粗犷、像厚涂般的笔触中，浓厚的油画颜料突显了画布，塑造出人形雕塑般的浮雕效果，三维感延伸到空间中。此外，他的创作理念还体现在雕塑、视频、摄影和互动表演等形式中。
克劳斯举办过多次个人与群体展览，展出地点包括洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆（MOCA）、特拉维夫艺术博物馆、波恩艺术博物馆、根特现代艺术博物馆（S.M.A.K）、柏林美术馆、赫尔福德马尔塔博物馆、斯德哥尔摩文化中心、成都当代艺术博物馆、库里提巴双年展和哈瓦那双年展等。2019年，他是唯一一位代表奥地利参加国际哈瓦那双年展的艺术家。
Born in 1981 in Graz, Austria, and has lived in Berlin since 2007. After completing his studies at the University of Vienna, he received a Master’s degree in Bildende Kunst from Central St. Martin’s College of Art, London, UK, and a PhD from the University of Graz, Austria.
In his work, Clemens Krauss incorporates the space and its context as well as the triangular function of the viewer. He formulates an attempt to visualize the question of the role of the individual in a political, cultural, and social context. On mostly light-monochrome, partly architecturally-looking backgrounds, Krauss creates images that not only represent bodies but actually are bodies: in rough, impasto-like streaks, thickly applied oil paints accentuate the canvas and create sculptural reliefs of human figures, which continuing three-dimensionality into the space. In addition, his concepts are reflected in sculptures, videos, photos, and participatory performances.
Krauss has had a number of institutional solo and group exhibitions, including at MOCA, Los Angeles; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Kunstmuseum Bonn; S.M.A.K Gent; Berlinische Galerie; Marta Herford; Kulturhuset Stockholm; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu; Curitiba Biennale; and the Havana Biennale to name a few. In 2019, he was the only Austrian representative at the International Havana Biennale, CU.
