Konstantin Grcic
Germany — b. 1965
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Biography
Konstantin Grcic (*1965) was trained as a cabinet maker at The John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood before studying Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since setting up his own practice in 1991 in Munich he has developed furniture, products and lighting for leading design companies. Today, Konstantin Grcic Design is based in Berlin and is active in several fields ranging from industrial design projects, design editions, exhibition design and collaborations in architecture and fashion.
Among his producers are Artek, Authentics, Cassina, ClassiCon, Flos, Flötotto, Kettal, Laufen, Magis, Mattiazzi, Muji, Mutina, Nespresso, Plank, Serafino Zani and Vitra...
Konstantin Grcic (*1965) was trained as a cabinet maker at The John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood before studying Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since setting up his own practice in 1991 in Munich he has developed furniture, products and lighting for leading design companies. Today, Konstantin Grcic Design is based in Berlin and is active in several fields ranging from industrial design projects, design editions, exhibition design and collaborations in architecture and fashion.
Among his producers are Artek, Authentics, Cassina, ClassiCon, Flos, Flötotto, Kettal, Laufen, Magis, Mattiazzi, Muji, Mutina, Nespresso, Plank, Serafino Zani and Vitra.
From the fashion and lifestyle sector he has worked with Audi, Hugo Boss, Issey Miyake, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Rado and smart/Daimler amongst others.
Konstantin Grcic has curated a number of significant design exhibitions such as « Design-Real » for The Serpentine Gallery, London (2009), « Comfort » for the Biennale internationale du design de Saint-Étienne (2010) and « Black2 » for the Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2010). In 2012 he was responsible for the exhibition design of the German Pavillon at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice. Solo exhibitions of his work have been shown at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 2006), Haus der Kunst (Munich, 2006), The Art Institute of Chicago (2009), the Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein, Germany, 2014), the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2016), the Haus am Waldsee (Berlin, 2022) and the HFBK (Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, 2022).
For Galerie kreo in Paris, he has created a number of limited-edition pieces since 2004; in turn Galerie kreo already devoted him several solo shows: « Champions » (2011), « Man Machine » (2014) and « Hieronymus » (2016), « Volumes » (2018) and « Transformers » (2023).
Many of his products have won international design awards, such as the Compasso d’Oro and the German Design Award in Gold.
The world’s most important design museums (including MoMA, New York/Centre Pompidou, Paris/Die Neue Sammlung, Munich) have included his designs in their permanent collections.
In 2009, Grcic has been appointed as Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA / UK). In 2010 he was fellow at Villa Massimo in Rome. Design Miami/ awarded him the title « 2010 Designer of the Year ».
Since 2020, Grcic holds a professorship at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste) and has been appointed member of the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste), Berlin in 2021.
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