Maria Kirk Mikkelsen graduated from the Kolding School of Design, the Institute of fashion and textile in 2004. She took part in the Danish Biennale for Craft and Design in 2009, where she was awarded the Biennale Prize. She exhibited at the Dutch Design Center in Utrecht in The Netherlands in 2008 and at Salone Satellite in Milano in 2007. Maria Kirk Mikkelsen received a grant from Nationalbanken’s Anniversary Foundation in 2009 and a travel grant from the Danish Arts Foundation in 2007. Maria Kirk Mikkelsen’s works springs from musings about modern man, and the results offer poetic comments on the world that surrounds her and us.

Although Maria Kirk Mikkelsen considers herself a textile designer, that does not restrict her choice of materials and technique. To her, the textile approach and sensitivity offer something unique that is expressed in colours, patterns, structures and constructions. Maria Kirk Mikkelsen’s preferred materials are light and underscore the weightlessness and mobility that is also reflected in her visual expression. She often uses humour and strives to give the beholder a sensory experience with a degree of surprise or curiosity. The interaction between product and user is always in focus; this is where function and experience come together. She designs mainly for exhibitions and interiors with an emphasis on the ornamented surface in a room, including seating surfaces and, in particular, walls.