New artist-in-residence: Carla Schwering

Carla Schwering is a textile and costume designer, born in Vienna and based in Munich. After studying theatre science and art history at LMU Munich alongside an assistantship at the Residenztheater, she continued her education in stage and costume design, film, and exhibition architecture at the Mozarteum Salzburg. She has collaborated with theatres and cultural institutions including the Burgtheater Vienna, the Goethe-Institut Paris, and the Bregenzer Festspiele. During an Erasmus year at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, she further developed her focus on textile design.

Working across costume, textiles, film, photography, and spatial design, Carla combines drawing, material experimentation, and narrative imagery to create fictional worlds that reflect and reinterpret contemporary society. During her two-week residency at Lottozero, she is experimenting with manual and digital jacquard weaving, developing textile pieces for a film installation that forms part of her diploma thesis at the Mozarteum Salzburg.

Carla Schwering, drawing for costume design for the opera Dido & Aeneas, directed by Rosamund Gilmore, presented at Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, 2023