General Commissioners

Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger were both born in 1974 and set up raumtaktik together in 2003 to pursue an investigation of space and spatial intervention.

Both architects are concerned with an interest in the means of production of space, and the cultural, economic and political parameters that determine the shape of architecture and urban development. Globalisation, migration, economic transformation, commercialisation, the event character of space, as well as the activation of urban space are the underlying conditions which their work investigates.

In 2006 Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger were commissioned by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb (Federal Agency for Civic Education) to curate the tour exhibition entitled: Fanshop der Globalisierung (Fan Shop for Globalisation) and edited an accompanying publication of the same name. A year later they published Space Time Play – Computer Games, Architecture and Urbansim which dealt with the defi nition of virtual space in computer and video games.

Work by raumtaktik has featured in exhibitions such as Shrinking Cities, with archilab Orleans, at the Rotterdam Architectural Biennial, the Berlin Jewish Museum and with Designmai Berlin. More of their current work can be seen this year at ZKM in Karlsruhe, at the Zurich Architekturforum and at Nai in Rotterdam. Together, Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger have been selected for residences in 2009 with Akademie Schloß Solitude in Stuttgart.

Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger have been visiting professors for art in public space at the Nuremberg Akademie der Bildenden Künste since 2007.