Jonathan Muecke

In 2022 the Art Institute of Chicago presented a solo show of Muecke's work titled "Objects in Sculpture" and Jonathan launched MU-EC-KE, a company that produces carbon fibre furniture using proprietary methods.

In 2013, Muecke designed Stabilizer, a carbon fibre diamond-shaped void on legs intended to visually stabilize a room and its contents, and CS (Coil Stool), which are both held in the design collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Domus described Muecke's 2014 Design Miami Pavilion as an experiment in object-making at a scale neither architectural nor domestic, and as "envisioned as a space without detail", consisting of "a single, indistinguishable construct that filters and focuses vision though its predominantly closed perimeter and optically flattening color field walls." In 2016 Muecke was commissioned by Maniera Gallery to create objects in response to Juliaan Lampens' Van Wassenhove House. The resulting five experimental objects are informed by architectural and artistic references, and have been described as sharing the "stark geometries" and "juxtaposition of straight and curved lines" of that house.

Muecke has exhibited with Volume Gallery in Chicago, and Maniera Gallery in Brussels. His approach has been described as cerebral and experimental, and as “inscrutably abstract.” In 2010, reporting on Muecke's first works produced at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Abitare magazine wrote: “Muecke has built a body of work that is stripped of special-case functionality and references, and expresses only larger phenomena such as absorption, containment, conversion, filtration and gravity... domestic products, which Muecke’s objects are, have perhaps never before had their functions so abstracted from routine use. Muecke has designed away all the trimmings and left us with raw experience.”

Jonathan Muecke (born 1983) is an American designer and architect, based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.