Studio Kai Linke

We design, develop and realize products and spaces together with our clients and partners. Our work is based on dialogue, an intense research and characterised by the fusion of tradition and renewal, a passion for cultures, materials and technologies. We combine function and aesthetics through innovative processes, create atmosphere and make contexts tangible and perceptible.

About

Studio Kai linke is an international design studio founded 2009 by Kai Linke. The portfolio extends project for international companys and institutions. The projects are part of numerous international publications, exhibitions and permanent collections as the Norway National Museum in Oslo; the Galila‘s P.O.C. in Brussels and Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt and have received several awards.

Kai Linke studied product design at the HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. He was granted a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, the Akademie Schloss Solitude / Stuttgart, the Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa Kyoto / Japan and the Goethe-Institut Osaka. 2019 he published the book „Kai Linke in Japan“. In 2021, he designed and conceptualised the German pavilion „Spoon Archaeology“ at the London Design Biennale.

Since 2022 he has been a lecturer in the Product Design department at the Brüder Grimm Berufsakademie in Hanau. Previously, he was a lecturer at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and the HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design.

Selected Exhibitions

2023

Was wir sammeln, Gestalter:innen,

MAK Frankfurt am Main

Handwerk & Form 2023, Bregenzerwald, Österreich

2022

Overdose, Design Museum Holon, Tel Aviv


2019

Dialogwerkstatt, Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Austria

Enter Porvelain, Palazzo Litta, Milan

Chair as an Artwork, Lativan Natial Art Museum, Riga

2018

Design without Borders, Hatartalan Design, Budapest

Works, Kyoto Design Week, Japan

Vogue Salon, Berlin

2016

By Hand, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

Future Archive & The Wall - Nieuwe German Gestaltung

#004, Kortrijk, Belgium


2015

Future Archive & The Wall - Nieuwe German Gestaltung

2013

Wool House, Somerset House, London

2012

Interior Lifestyle China 2012, Shanghai

The Mirror Exhibition, Designblok 2012, Praque


2011

Salone Satellite 15, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan

New Olds, Design Museum Holon, Tel Aviv

Totem and Taboo, MuseumsQuartier, Wien

YDMI, Inno Design Tech Expo (IDTE), HongKong

2010

D3 Professionals, imm cologne 2010, Cologne

Design Deutschland 2010, Fuori

Salone Milan & ICFF, New York

Modern Design, Pierre Berge & Associes, Brussels

2009

Li Edelkoort‘s wish list, Brussels

Mint Escapes, The London Design Festival, London

2005

Inspiried by cologne, Imm Cologne

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