Matthias Böttger
Matthias Böttger (born February 7, 1974 in Braunschweig) is a German architect and curator.
Matthias Böttger studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Westminster, London. He worked as an architect in Cologne, Berlin and Paris. His scientific activity began at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, followed by the University of Stuttgart and the ETH Zurich, where he taught art and architecture. After he was a visiting professor of art and public space at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, he has since 2012 the Chair Sustainable Architecture + Spatial Tactics at the Institute of Space and Design.[1] Together with Friedrich von Borries Matthias Böttger was 2008 the general commissioner and curator for the German contribution " Updating Germany - 100 Projects for a Better Future" to the XI. International Venice Biennale of Architecture.[2] He was a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude [3] in Stuttgart and in 2010 took over the direction of the “aut architektur und tirol”,[4] an Art Association of Architecture in Innsbruck. Since 2011 Matthias Böttger is the artistic director of the German Center of Architecture (DAZ)[5] in Berlin. In 2013 he was the curator for the German contribution "Nos Brasil! We Brazil!" at the X. Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo.[6][7]
Curatorial activity
- 2013: Nós Brasil! We Brazil!, Casa do Povo, a German contribution to the X Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo on behalf of the Goethe-Institut and the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.
- 2012: Why Architecture, German Center for Architecture DAZ, Berlin.
- 2011: Raumproduktion, Seitenlichtsaal, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.[8]
- 2010: aut.raumproduktion, exhibition series with the conditions of the production of space, aut architektur und tirol, Innsbruck.
- 2009: TV towers. 8,559 Meters of Politics and Architecture, German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt.[9]
- 2008: Updating Germany. 100 projects for a better future, German contribution to the Venice Biennale of Architecture, commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.[10]
- 2006: Fanshop of Globalization. A traveling exhibition shown in Germany's fan zones during the football World Cup in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education.[11]
Writings
- with Friedrich von Borries (ed.): Fanshop of Globalisation . Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-89331-684-1.
- with Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz (Ed.): Space Time Play - Computergames, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level. Birkhäuser, Boston Basel Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8414-2.
- with Friedrich von Borries (ed.): Updating Germany. 100 Projects For a Better Future. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern -Ruit 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2262-9.
- with Friedrich von Borries and Florian Heilmeyer (eds.): Better Future? Searching for the Spaces of Tomorrow. Merve, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88396-255-9.
- with Friedrich von Borries and Florian Heilmeyer (ed.): TV Towers. 8,559 Meters Politics and Architecture. Jovis, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86859-024-1.
- with Ludwig Engel and Juliane Otterbach (ed.): Talking futures. A miniature book about utopias and futures. Lost Books, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-0-95676-410-2.
- Angelika Fitz and Tim Rieniets (ed.): WELTSTADT - Nós Brasil! We Brazil. Goethe Institute, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-939670-93-3.
External links
- Literature by and about Matthias Böttger in the German National Library catalogue
- raumtaktik
- University of Arts Linz
- German Center for Architecture DAZ
- Weltstadt
References
- ↑ Faculty Kunstuniversität Linz
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL "Von Natur aus kreativ"
- ↑ Fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude
- ↑ History of the aut
- ↑ Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ
- ↑ Interview with Matthias Böttger
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL "Hochbahntrasse zu Parkanlage"
- ↑ Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- ↑ DAM Frankfurt
- ↑ Updating Germany
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr.142, Friday, June 23rd 2006 "Nur mit Hemd in der Hose"