Designer Jan Klingler and Queen Silvia of Sweden. Photo: Henrik Garlöv/The Royal Court of Sweden
janklingler@icloud.com
—Education
2018 MFA Design, Konstfack — Stockholm, Sweden
2015 B.A. Industrial Design, HAWK — Hildesheim, Germany
—Exhibitions
2022 Design Museum Gent — Brussels, Belgium
2021 3 Days of Design — Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Dutch Design Week — Eindhoven, Netherlands
2021 Museum de Fundatie — Zwolle, Netherlands
2021 Romania Design Week — Bucharest, Romania
2020 Volvo Studio — Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Formex — Stockholm, Sweden
2020 DesignMarch — Reykjavik, Iceland
2020 House of Sweden — Washington D.C., USA
2020 Light + Building — Frankfurt, Germany
2019-20 Dunkers Kulturhus — Helsingborg, Sweden
2019-20 Design Museum/Beazley Designs of the Year— London, England
2019 Designart Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan
2019 Form/Design Center — Malmö, Sweden
2019 Interzum Trade Fair — Cologne, Germany
2019 Salone di Mobile — Milan, Italy
2019 ArkDes Museum for Architecture & Design — Stockholm, Sweden
2019 Stockholm Furniture Fair — Stockholm, Sweden
2018 The Glass Factory — Boda Glasbruk, Sweden
2018 Konstfack spring exhibition — Stockholm, Sweden
2017 After Fair/Stockholm Furniture Fair — Stockholm, Sweden
2014 IMM Cologne — Cologne, Germany
—Recognition and Awards
2020 Formex Nova Nordic Designer of the Year, Swedish nominee
2020 Design Plus powered by Light + Building Award
2019 Beazley Designs of the Year
2019 Dezeen Awards longlist
2019 ein&zwanzig German Design Council shortlist
2019 Ung Svensk Form Award
2018 SSES Validator Grant
—Publications and Reviews
“Bacteria Lamp - Jan Klingler” Damn Magazine 02/2022
“Jan Klingler’s Bacteria Lamp is a Crossover between Science, Art, and Industrial Design” Scandinavian Mind 09/2020
“Formex Nova Nominee 2020 Jan Klingler” FORM - Magazine for Nordic Architecture and Design 01/2020
“Art Meets Science in These Dazzling Lamps Made of Microbes” Scientific American 07/2019
“These Lamps Preserve the Bacteria of your Favorite People, Pets, and Places” Fast Company 03/2019
“Jan Klingler’s Microbiological Lamps are Made from Bacteria Swabbed from Your Loved Ones” Sixtysix 03/2019
“Lights with Patterns Created by Bacteria” Material District 02/2019
“Jan Klingler’s Bacteria Lamps are ‘Modern Fossils’ as well as Lights” Dezeen 02/2019
FORM - Magazine for Nordic Architecture and Design 12/2018
—Workshops
2019 The Glass Factory, Glass Tech-Hack — Boda Glasbruk, Sweden
Jan Klingler is an artist and industrial designer from Germany who currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden.
He received his BFA in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Design in Hildesheim, Germany in 2016, and his Master's Degree in Individual Study/Industrial Design at Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden in 2018.
Jan enjoys finding design inspiration in the most unexpected of places. He is currently available for freelance projects.