Since 2019, Clara Herrmann has been head of the JUNGE AKADEMIE, the international artist-in-residence programme of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, with residencies in Berlin, Germany and Olevano, Italy. For the JUNGE AKADEMIE, she developed the programme Human Machine funded by the E.ON foundation and initiated and curated the project AI Anarchies with a fellowship programme and exhibition, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The programme also included a transdisciplinary autumn school curated by Nora N. Khan and Maya Indira Ganesh.

Herrmann coordinated the Digital Solitude programme of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, from 2015-19, where she founded and curated the project Web Residencies with guest curators, including Morehshin Allahyari, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Nora O Murchú, among others. She was a research associate in the department for cultural management at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and is co-publisher of the anthology Der digitale Kulturbetrieb. Clara Herrmann studied literature, law and arts management in Berlin, London and Frankfurt (Oder).