Manu Linder is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam and Vienna.
Producing books, visual identities, exhibition displays, websites, texts, with and for others, their practice engages with language, editing, rehearsing, publishing, reading out loud, printed matter and working collaboratively.
Selection of recent work, events, exhibitions, collaborations:
– “Playbill”, self-published (July 2026)
– “Six Photocopied Garments” with Gijs van Herwaarden, six screenprinted posters, self-published (June 2026)
– Perfect Attendance, reading (May 2026)
– Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Instituut Open Day campaign (January 2026)
together with Anja Aurand, Ivo Blackwood, Velko Kalchev
– Residency at Habitat, Cà de Monti, Tredozio. Curating the radio show “Radio is...” (Oct. 2025)
“Radio is...” broadcasts documents and publishes various outcomes of a week in residence by the Graphic Design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in collaboration with Habitat.
– Graphic design and social media managing for TAG – Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße (2023–2025)
– “ahem (raising the voice)”; Roelof Hartplein 290, Amsterdam (Dec 2024)
Book launch, readings, performances by the Graphic Design department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie in collaboration with Werker Collective.
– Performance & writing workshop with Ivo Blackwood. Park Schinkeleilanden, Amsterdam (Nov 2024)
– Exhibition WIE WIR (NICHT) LEBEN, in collaboration with Arbeiterkammer Wien. Library Ottakring, Vienna (April 2024)
Studies
– BA, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Graphic Design department (2024–2026)
– University of Applied Arts Vienna, Applied Photography and Time-Based Media (Guest Year, 2024)
– University of Applied Arts Vienna, Design and Narrative Media (formerly: Graphic Design, 2021–now)
– HGBLuVA Vienna, Graphic and Communication Design (2017–2020)
– HGBLuVA Vienna, Printing and Media Technologies (2015–2017)