Matthias Böttger 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 Böttger taught art and architecture. In 2007-08 he was a visiting professor of art and public space at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. From 2012 to 2017, he was Professor for Sustainable Architecture + Future Tactics at Kunstuniversität Linz. Since 2017 he is Professor and Head of the Institute HyperWerk at the Academy of Art and Design of FHNW Basel. 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. He was a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and in 2010 took over the direction of the “aut architektur und tirol”, an Art Association of Architecture in Innsbruck. Since 2011 Matthias Böttger is the artistic director of the German Center of Architecture an initiative of the Association of German Architects 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.
Curatorial activity
2016: Neue Standards. Zehn Thesen zum Wohnen, DAZ Berlin, KAZ im KuBA Kassel, Neues Museum Nürnberg, ait-Salon Köln, Baukulturzentrum Sachsen, afo Linz, etc.
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 BMVBS.
with Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz : Space Time Play - Computergames, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level. Birkhäuser, Boston Basel Berlin 2007,.
with Friedrich von Borries : Updating Germany. 100 Projects For a Better Future.Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern -Ruit 2008,.
with Friedrich von Borries and Florian Heilmeyer : Better Future? Searching for the Spaces of Tomorrow. Merve, Berlin 2008,.
with Friedrich von Borries and Florian Heilmeyer : TV Towers. 8,559 Meters Politics and Architecture. Jovis, Berlin 2009,.
with Ludwig Engel and Juliane Otterbach : Talking futures. A miniature book about utopias and futures. Lost Books, Stuttgart 2010,.
with Angelika Fitz : WELTSTADT - Nós Brasil! We Brazil. Goethe Institute, Munich, 2013,.
with Stefan Carsten and Ludwig Engel, Speculations Transformations – Thoughts on the Future of Germany's Cities and Regions, Zürich 2016,.
with Olaf Bahner, Neue Standards. Zehn Thesen zum Wohnen, Berlin 2016,.
