Jozef Kabaň

Jozef Kabaň (born 4 January 1973) is a Slovak automobile designer. He started his career as a designer at Volkswagen. In 2003 he moved to Audi as an exterior design assistant. In 2007 he advanced to the position of Chief of Exterior Design at Audi. He was exterior designer of the Volkswagen Lupo, SEAT Arosa, Bugatti Veyron and Škoda Octavia. He has been Chief of Exterior Design at Škoda Auto since 2008. In early 2017 he left Škoda for BMW to become its head of design replacing Karim Habib.^[1] In 2019 he changed position within BMW Group and headed design at its subsidiary Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.^[2] After half a year he decided to leave Rolls-Royce and BMW Group returning to VW in January 2020, this time for its main VW brand.^[3] In early 2023, Kabaň was dismissed from Volkswagen and replaced by Bentley designer Andreas Mindt after failing to impress VW's CEO.^[4] Bentley replaced Mindt with Tobias Sühlmann.^[5]

Jozef Kabaň
Jozef Kabaň (2007)
Born	(1973-01-04) January 4, 1973 (age 52) Námestovo, Czechoslovakia
Education	Master of Arts Industrial Design
Alma mater	Royal College of Art Academy of Fine Arts and Design
Occupation	Automotive Designer of Bugatti
Employer(s)	Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd BMW AG Volkswagen Group AG Škoda Auto a.s. Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. MG
Notable work	Škoda Superb Škoda Kodiaq Škoda Octavia Volkswagen Lupo SEAT Arosa Bugatti Veyron

On April 22nd, 2024, MG Motor officially announced that Kabaň has joined the company as the Vice President of the Global Design Center.^[6]

Education

Kabaň studied industrial design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design located in Bratislava, Slovakia, starting from 1991.^[7] He graduated with a Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art, London, UK in 1997.