Clemens Gröszer was born in East Berlin in 1951. From 1972 to 1976 he studied at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin. From 1980 to 1983 he was a master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR under Wieland Förster. Later he created material collages and experimented with Super 8 film and sound experiments. In 1981 he was a co-founder of the artists’ group NEON REAL. Gröszer died in Berlin in 2014.
In 2015 the Museum Dieselkraftwerk in Cottbus paid tribute to him with a retrospective.