Konrad Renner (*1982) studied Communication Design at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle (Saale). In 2008/09 he worked as a designer at Project Projects in New York. Together with Christoph Knoth, he founded the graphic design studio Knoth & Renner in 2011.⁠ ⁠Through collaborative working processes, projects were developed for, among others, Sternberg Press (London), e-flux (New York), the Sonic Acts Biennial (Amsterdam), the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, the Fikra Graphic Design Biennial (Sharjah, UAE), the EPFL Pavilions (Lausanne), and the German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale.

Konrad Renner regularly gives lectures on topics such as digital culture, the dichotomy of contemporary visual identities, and the lapse as a design strategy, including at the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou, China), Kindai University (Osaka, Japan), the Berliner Festspiele, HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design (Gothenburg, Sweden), and UQAM (Montreal, Canada).

In addition, Konrad Renner publishes texts on the political dimension of digital interfaces, including in Graphic Design Is (…) Not Innocent (ed. Ingo Offermanns, Valiz, 2022) and Para-Plattformen — Die Raumpolitik des Rechtspopulismus(eds. Markus Miessen, Zoë Ritts, Merve, 2020).

Since 2017, Konrad Renner has been Professor of Digital Graphics at HFBK Hamburg together with Christoph Knoth.