Vincent Laine

Vincent Laine is a Finnish-born Swedish artist and designer based in Norway, and founder of the multidisciplinary studio Laine. Working across furniture, objects, and spatial installations, his practice explores the space between material certainty and perceptual ambiguity. Through industrial materials, atmospheric forms, and speculative narratives, he investigates how design can function as a lens into alternative futures.

Over the past decade, Laine has contributed to a range of influential design projects, including the Leica Q and Q2 cameras and award-winning work developed during his tenure as Creative Director at Db. While rooted in industrial design, his recent practice has increasingly shifted toward independent and self-initiated works that operate between design, sculpture, and conceptual inquiry.

In 2025, Laine initiated Immaterial, a sculptural bench developed in collaboration with Vestre and Jacques Cartier Studio. Presented during Paris Fashion Week and later installed at the Munch Museum in Oslo, the project explored the coexistence of structural rigor and atmospheric softness. The same year, he developed Incremental Chair, an independent work exhibited at Alcova Miami during Art Basel, examining transformation through the simplest possible intervention: a series of folds in a single sheet of steel.

Across his work, Laine is interested in moments where perception becomes unstable and familiar materials appear to behave in unfamiliar ways. Steel, sound, weight, and illusion are recurring elements used to create experiences that oscillate between the rational and the improbable. His works often propose alternative readings of reality, inviting viewers to consider what becomes possible when certainty gives way to curiosity.

Guided by the idea of a Far fetched near future, Laine’s practice seeks not to predict what comes next, but to create tangible glimpses of futures worth imagining.