Address
Choriner Strasse 4
10119 Berlin, Germany
Email: info@studiogreiling.com
Biography
Katrin Greiling (*1978, Germany) is a multidisciplinary designer and educator with an extensive body of work spanning furniture and product design, interior architecture, photography, and curatorial practice. Educated in Sweden, she has built a versatile and international career. Her design philosophy emphasizes reduction and creativity, with the ability to respectfully adapt to diverse cultural contexts and views projects from a multidisciplinary perspective. Deeply rooted within the Nordic design context she combines clarity and functionality with a distinct sensibility for color and materiality.
Driven by curiosity and the opportunity of design-oriented research she embarked shortly after her MFA in Interior Architecture and Furniture Design at Konstfack on a three year long research journey to the United Arab Emirates. She was involved in the UAE’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and won numerous design competitions, notably she was awarded Furniture of the Year 2010 in Sweden for her Bidoun sofa series.
For Katrin, the camera is an indispensable research tool and companion. With a sharp eye she captures vital moments, which are published widely by leading international magazines and publishers.
Many of her designs have been created in collaboration with leading companies and institutions, such as Tecta, Droog, and Offecct. Kvadrat has for long been an important supporter of her work. She was one of the selected designer for the Hallingdal 65 exhibition in Milan, and developed the exhibition concept Structures for the Kinnasand/Kvadrat showroom in Milan. The F51N 2023 is currently exhibited as additional furniture in the Walter Gropius director’s office at the Bauhaus in Dessau.
Selected Collaborators
- Droog
- Form Magazine
- Kvadrat
- Offecct
- PB0110
- Sandqvist Bags
- Tecta
- The Botanical Room
Awards and Honors
- 10 young designer to watch Magazine Art + Auction, Artinfo
- Nomination German Design Award
- Furniture of the Year 2010 Sköna Hem
- Winner of Graniph Dubai competition
- Winner of Traffic Design Competition
- Design S nomination, Swedish Design Award
- Young Swedish Design 06/07
- Scandinavia's best master thesis Forum, editor-in-chief Mark Isitt
- Winner of Art of Shopping
Selected Press
- Baunetz ID, 2024
- Artnotes, 2023
- FAZ Magazine, 2020
Group Exhibitions
- F51N – Gropius Easy Chair Bauhaus Dessau Germany 2024
- Furniture Fair Stockholm – The Safar Series Stockholm, Sweden
- Hands to Work New York, USA
- Structures Kinnasand/Kvadrat Showroom Milan, Italy
- Chorin Carpets Sight Unseen OFFSITE New York, USA
- Tata Sofa Series Design Days Dubai UAE
- Hallingdal 65 project Kvadrat at the Jil Sander Showroom Italy 2012
- The Evolution of the Object Gallery Korn Stockholm, Sweden
- Wallpaper Handmade Milan, Italy 2010
- 12 Shelves The Aram Gallery London, UK 2018
- Forest Aesthetics Collex Tokyo, Japan
Curated Exhibitions
- Everything is Connected, Milan, Italy
- Contemporary Collected at Play Nordic, Berlin, Germany
- Contemporary Collected, Sweden/Japan
- Contemporary Collected, Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan
Upcoming
- TH OWL Detmold 25.06.2025 13:15
- Kvadrat - Launch of fabric collection with Kvadrat Copenhagen 18.06.2025 11:05
Selected Interior Architecture
- Unit 15
- Casa Coco
- Grüne Mühle
- Die Waldläufer
- Wald & Wiese
- Skalitzer
- Wörther
- Dresdener
- Mulack
Selected Exhibition Architecture
- Structures, Kvadrat, Milan
- Play Nordic, Felleshus, Nordic Embassies, Berlin
- Svenska Tecknare, Gothenburg
- Sweden Day in Tokyo, Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan
- Destruction & Creation, UN University Tokyo,
- Design Bar – Stockholm Furniture Fair,
- Swedish Love Stories, Omote Sando Hills, 100% Design, Tokyo
- Bidoun Lounge im Art Park, Art Dubai,
- Palestine Pavillion, Art Dubai,
Selected Design Projects
- M22, Tecta
- Repurposed, Sandqvist Bags
- F51N 2023, Tecta
- Plates, Form Magazine
- F51N 2019, Tecta
- Long Arm, The Botanical Room
- Chorin Carpets
- Drei, own production
- Bow, Swedish Ninja
- Tata Sofa Series
- Hide & Sleep, Kvadrat
- Hat – Hat, Wallpaper Handmade
- Bidoun/The Safar Series
- Forest, Offecct
Photography Clients
- A+U, No 466, 2009
- Anton Alvarez
- Art Dubai
- Brownbook
- Disegno, Design photography
- E-B-O
- Elle, Interior photography
- Kvadrat, Meisterhäuser
- OMA
- Plaza
- Rebecca Raue
- Rum
- The New Era Magazine
- Thomas Will
- Wallpaper
- Artlover Magazine, Art Dubai
Education
- MFA Interior Architecture and Furniture Design, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden, 2003–2005
- BFA Interior Architecture and Furniture Design, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000–2003
- Furniture & Wood working, Capellagården, Öland, Sweden, 1998–2000
Teaching Positions
- Professor in Product & Interior Design HBKsaar, Saarbrücken, Germany summer term 2017 – winter term 2018/19
- Guest Professor in Product & Interior Design HBKsaar, Saarbrücken, Germany winter term 2016/17
- Interim Professor in Product & Interior Design HBKsaar, Saarbrücken, Germany winter term 2014/15
- Adjunct: Foundation class for product and graphic design, online ASK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Adjunct: Foundation and International Master Hochschule Anhalt, Dessau, Germany
- Adjunct: Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden
Guest Lectures & Workshops
- Design PF, Pforzheim, Germany
- TH OWL, Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Detmold, Germany
- SAIC – School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- RISD – Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
- HDK – Högskolan för Konst och Design, Gothenburg, Sweden
- ITB – Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
- CAFA - Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
- Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
