KONSTANTIN GRCIC


Known as one of today's most important industrial designers, Konstantin Grcic creates designs that are characterised by simplicity and intelligibility of form and material, which at the same time provoke in a humorous way. In his objects, pioneering production techniques as well as advanced materials connect with references to modern design classics. His products step beyond their functional qualities, capture the expressive core of the object and surprise with experimental components without losing in formal acuteness.

"Grcic’s design process and products are the end result of an iterative process of conceptualized thinking and physical making – a tightly spun dialectic of thought and praxis. They also illuminate the complex relationships between subjects and objects, between people and things. […] Certain works in Grcic’s oeuvre directly reference specific objects from design history’s modern canon, participating in a process of signification in time. What intrigues Grcic about examples from design’s past is the way in which they were based in – and reflective of – their own present day, at the time of their design. In these cases, somewhere in his design process he engages an object from history, and, without altering the core meaning of it, he re-charges it for the present through his new interpretation of it."

Robin Schuldenfrei, Subjective Objects – Historicity and the Design of Konstantin Grcic in Konstantin Grcic. Abbildungen/Figures, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2016

Image: chair_ONE, MAGIS, 2004, special all-black version, die-cast aluminium and concrete, 80 x 55 x 59 cm

Biography


VITA

1965

Born in Munich


1990

Graduated in Industrial Design, Royal College of Art, London


Lives and works in Munich

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Brooklyn Museum, New York

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Denver Art Museum, Denver

Deutsches Museum, Munich

Design Museum, London

Die Neue Sammlung, Munich

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis

JIDA Japan Industrial Designer's Association, Nagano

La Triennale di Milano, Milan

Musée Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Barcelona

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich

Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017

Magliana Project
Padiglione di Pier Luigi Nervi, Rome


2016

Konstantin Grcic - Panorama
Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong

Konstantin Grcic.Abbildungen
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld

97 | Hieronymus
Galerie Kreo, Paris


2015

Konstantin Grcic: The Good. The Bad. The Ugly
Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, Munich

Konstantin Grcic – Panorama
Z33, Hasselt


2014

Konstantin Grcic – Panorama
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

Konstantin Grcic – Man Machine
Galerie Kreo, Paris


2011

Konstantin Grcic – Black²
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie/Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

Champions
Galerie Kreo, Paris


2009

Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago


2007

This Side Up - Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich


2006

Konstantin Grcic - industrial design. on / off
Haus der Kunst München, Munich

Konstantin Grcic - Industrial Design
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam


2003

Konstantin Grcic
Mouvements Modernes, Paris

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017

Design Studio: Processes
Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich

à table!
Galerie Kreo, Paris

Les Objets Domestiquent
FRAC Nord-Pas De Calais, Dunkerque


2016

Répétition
Boghossian Foundation, Brussels

EPOCSODIELAK
Kaleidoscope project space, Milan

Tobias Rehberger presently
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin

Quiz, based on an idea by Robert Stadler
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

100 | One piece a day
Galerie Kreo, Paris

2015

Family Matters: Cohen, Lambl. Designer's Choice
Kunstareal München, Munich

88 | shades of variety
Galerie Kreo, Paris

2014

85 | Only wood
Galerie Kreo, Paris

83 | des formes utiles
Galerie Kreo, Paris

82 | contrast control
Galerie Kreo, Paris

80 | convergences
Galerie Kreo, Paris

do it
Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia

How Soon Is Now
Galerie Judin, Berlin

Quiz
GALERIE POIREL, Nancy

Der Brancusi-Effekt
Kunsthalle Wien Project Space Karlsplatz, Vienna

Home (Very) Sweet Home
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris

do it Moscow
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture - GCCC, Moscow


2013

12. Triennale Kleinplastik
Stadt Fellbach - Kulturamt, Fellbach

Spiel der Throne | Game of Thrones
Humboldt Lab Dahlem - Museen Dahlem, Berlin

Architectures domestiques
Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris


2012

72 | Ensemble
Galerie Kreo, Paris

Bauhaus Live
The Aram Gallery, London

Galerie Kreo à Monaco - Art & Rapy
Contemporary Art Gallery, Monaco

69 | Tandem
Galerie Kreo, Paris


2011

The Then-now Show
The Aram Gallery, London


2010

Le Meilleur des Mondes
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg


2009

58 | 10 printemps en automne
Galerie Kreo, Paris

Minimal Funktional - Highlights aus der Daimler Kunst Sammlung zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Design
Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg

DAS BLAUE LICHT. Der Hang zum Kristallinen in Kunst und Design
Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz

Twilight Zone- Art hits design
Niederösterreichische Museum, Vienna


2007

48 | Tabourets
Galerie Kreo, Paris

Nature Design - Von Inspiration zu Innovation
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich

TOMORROW NOW - when design meets science fiction
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

KONSTANTIN GRCIC & NITZAN COHEN
SPACE/-1, MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg


2006

Eldorado
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg


2003

27 | Miroirs
Galerie Kreo, Paris

Bozetti - vom 18. Jh. bis heute
Florian Sundheimer Galerie, Munich


2002

TRANS-POSITIONS
Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest


2000

Lost & Found - Contemporary British Design: Critical Voices in the Culture of Co
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Eds.): Konstantin Grcic Abbildungen/Figures, Zurich 2016

Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum/Walther König (Eds.): Konstantin Grcic: The Good. The Bad. The Ugly, Munich/Cologne 2015

Vitra Design Museum/Mateo Kreis (Eds.): Konstantin Grcic – Panorama, Weil am Rhein 2014

Archibooks (Eds.): Konstantin Grcic, Entretien avec Pierre Doze, Paris 2010

Serpentine Gallery London/Walther König/Konstantin Grcic (Eds.): Design Real, Cologne 2009

Plank Collezioni (Eds.): MIURA Stool. NYC 2006, Ora 2007

Phaidon Press (Eds.): KGID.Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design, London 2005

Yoshio Futagawa/A.D.A Edita (Eds.): Furniture Designers: Konstantin Grcic, Tokyo 2004

ClassiCon/Konstantin Grcic (Eds.): Konstantin Grcic for ClassiCon, Munich 2003

Edizioni Charta (Eds.): Goethe, Grcic. Oggetti quotidiani, Alltagsobjekte, Quotidian Objects, Milan 2000

Selected Press


Tagesspiegel 2016

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Monopol 2016

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