Valentin Link was born in Herrenberg in 1987. In 2013, he completed his studies in jazz and popular music, majoring in double bass, at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim. In the same year, he won the audience award at the Open Mind competition of the art and music academies of the state of Baden-Württemberg with his project »Schattentrios«, which combines jazz, contemporary classical and electronic music. He then began his studies at the Institute for Music and Media at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, specializing in media composition, visual music and classical music recording. In 2015, he traveled with the Palanteeroo project to the opera village in Burkina Faso initiated by Christoph Schlingensief to set up a recording studio there and play concerts with Patrick Kabré and Tim Winsey in Ouagadougou, among others. Concert tours with his electronic/acoustic trio KUF have taken him to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, the UK, Japan and South Korea. Invitations to international festivals include the Moers Festival, Shapes Festival Norway, the Hanover Art Festival and the Acusmatiq Festival in Italy. In 2018, KUF held an artist residency as part of the »Paradise Air« program in Matsudo, Japan. Since 2018, he has been working closely with the Iranian singer Hani Mojtahedy and the Babylon Orchestra from Berlin. Concert tours with the Goethe-Institut have taken him to Iraq and Italy. In 2020, Valentin Link founded the band sink together with singer Silvia Pfändner. In the same year, he joined the jazz/post-rock/minimal quintet Monoglot. Valentin Link has been a member of the Leipzig sextet Hotel Rimini since 2021.