Konstantin Grcic

Konstantin Grcic (2008)

Konstantin Grcic [ ˈɡr̝tʃɪtʃ ] (born May 18, 1965 in Munich ) is a German industrial designer of Serbian descent.

Life

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The Chair One chair by Grcic

The son of a person who emigrated from Serbia immediately after the Second World War and a German mother who ran her own gallery as an art dealer, grew up in Wuppertal . The artist Tamara Grcic is his older sister.

From 1985 Grcic trained as a cabinet maker at the John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood (Parnham College) in Dorset . Following his apprenticeship, he studied industrial design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988 . After graduation, he worked for a while as an assistant to Jasper Morrison , who was a visiting professor at the college and who happened to be his neighbor. In addition to Morrision, his design role models were predominantly Italians such as Achille Castiglioni , Franco Albini and Ettore Sottsass .

In 1991, Grcic founded his design office Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design in Munich . Subsequently, he designed furniture, lights and accessories for numerous manufacturers. Many of his designs received a lot of attention because they used materials and production techniques in new ways, often surprising results, such as the open seat structure Osorom (2002) made of Hirek plastic. The seat shell of the Chair_One (2002) chair is composed of a flat structure in three dimensions. Die-cast aluminum was used, which was previously mostly used for furniture frames. In cooperation between an experienced South Tyrolean furniture company and BASF, the Myto chair was created , made of injection molding, with a material that spreads quickly in the mold and forms particularly stable structures. His most popular design is the Mayday lamp made of polypropylene . In addition to projects on behalf of companies and furniture publishers, he designs objects that are produced in small series, for example for the Kreo gallery in Paris.

Grcic is considered to be one of the most influential contemporary designers, not only in the media that accompany his work continuously, but also in young designers all over the world, with whom he maintains intensive contact. Following the example of the Italian studio system, he works intensively with changing assistants. For example, Nitzan Cohen (now a professor in Saarbrücken), Pauline Deltour , Stefan Diez , Ascan Mergenthaler (now in the architecture office Herzog & de Meuron ), Jonathan Olivares , Marie Rahm and Clemens Weisshaar worked together with Grcic before they did their own projects and designs became known.

Grcic's designs can be found in important museums and design collections around the world, including the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York , in Germany, among others, in the Deutsches Museum and in the New Collection in Munich. In 2000, at the invitation of the Goethe National Museum in Weimar, he selected 64 everyday objects from the property of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which he presented with 9 of his own designs in an exhibition in the Casa di Goethe in Rome.

Smart mobile disco

In 2007 the Design Museum London presented the exhibition 25/25 - Celebrating 25 Years of Design . In 2012 he designed the exhibition Resource Architecture in the German Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice. The 2014 exhibition Konstantin Grcic at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein . Panorama to see. In 2018 Grcic relocated his studio from Munich to Berlin.

Awards

• Practical scholarship at the Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo , 2010
• "Greatest living designer", art - Das Kunstmagazin 2008
• "A&W Designer of the Year 2007" awarded by A&W Architektur & Wohnen magazine
• Nombre d'Or, Salon du Meuble, Paris , 2004
• XIX. Premio Compasso d'Oro , ADI, Milan , 2001
• Guest of Honor, Interieur Biennial, Kortrijk , 2000
• Modernism Award For Young Designers, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York , 1999
• Award for design from the City of Munich 1995
• Bavarian State Prize for Young Designers 1988

Selected exhibitions

• »Playtime«, Galerie Max Hetzler , Berlin , 2016
• »Illustrations«, Kunsthalle Bielefeld , Bielefeld , 2016
• "Konstantin Grcic: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly", Die Neue Sammlung , Munich , 2015/2016
• »Panorama«, Grassi Museum for Applied Arts , Leipzig , 2015/2016
• »Panorama«, Vitra Design Museum , Weil am Rhein , 2014

literature

• Friedrich Meschede (Ed.): Konstantin Grcic Figures, Lars Müller Publishers Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03778-505-8
• Florian Böhm (Ed.): KGID (Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design). Phaidon Press, London 2005, ISBN 0-7148-4431-4 .
• Mateo Kries, Janna Lipsky (eds.): Konstantin Grcic: Panorama. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 2014, ISBN 978-3-931936-06-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Konstantin Grcic in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Konstantin Grcic
• Norman Kietzmann: Interview with Konstantin Grcic at Designlines

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Video of Konstantin Grcic on YouTube (at 0:16)
2. ↑ Designer Konstantin Grcic: Berlin as an opportunity that he wasn't looking for . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 26, 2020]).
3. ↑ Grcic's own statements in the Deutschlandfunk Kultur broadcast 'In Conversation' on September 4, 2019
4. ↑ designmuseum.org
5. ↑ The new presence of furniture. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 15, 2014, p. 9.
6. ↑ Villa Massimo | Konstantin Grcic. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .