Josephin Böttger

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Josephin Böttger
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Born1965
Hamburg, West Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationHochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
Known forVideo installations, experimental films, performance art

Josephin Böttger (* 1965 in Hamburg) is a German video- and multimedia-artist, who uses in her work different elements: film, installation art, performance art, photography and drawing.

Life

At the beginning of her career in the early 1990s, Josephin Böttger produced experimental short films: "Initially, Böttger used analog techniques and materials, primarily Super 8 or 16mm formats, to make films that combined various processes. 'We played with analog film techniques, time-lapse, slow motion, rear projection'. … Drawing elements also appeared in these films, linking different visual media, which she continues to use in varying combinations in her work. Later in her studies, the artist additionally edited and cut the films digitally in post-production, a precursor to her expansive and transcendent video installations created today using digital means." (Belinda Grace Gardner).[1] In the 1990s, she began studying visual communication at the HfBK Hamburg. Since graduating in 2002, she has primarily designed works for 2- to 6-channel video installations, which have been shown at international exhibitions and projected in public spaces.

Work

As a multimedia artist, Josephin Böttger uses her multi-channel film compositions to create "…precise image disturbances in motion, allowing her aesthetic interventions in public spaces to encounter the unpredictability of chance. Her immersive film assemblages reflect and bundle the acceleration of reality that media critic Paul Virilio diagnosed as the state of a world caught up in an unstoppable dynamic of progress: a world in dissolution, inexorably heading toward its complete evaporation in the scattered light of the digital age." (Belinda Grace Gardner).[1]

The artist often incorporates everyday objects into her recordings. These readymades are altered through digital processes, set in motion, and placed in new contexts: “The multiple superimposition of drawings, digitally altered found footage, her own images, performances, and a diffuse soundscape from various sources with digital effects evokes a kind of sci-fi world that seems frighteningly real in some respects” (Leona Marie Ahrens).[2]

Using time-lapse photography and seriality, the artist exaggerates documentary scenes from public life and casts them in a new light. She draws on her own visual repertoire, which focuses primarily on the motifs of architecture and time. Her works deal with the metamorphosis of urban space and address the chronology and aesthetics of constant new construction and renovation, against the backdrop of which she creates a kaleidoscope of different states of being: "Böttger shows the ever-accelerating cycle of urban renewal as an accelerationist vortex, as a dystopian ballet. The fragmentation, the acceleration—it is a restless sense of the world that emerges from the cycle of demolition, construction, demolition." (Raphael Dillhof).[3]

In September 2021, her site-specific video and sound installation Deviation One[4] was displayed on the façade of the Galerie der Gegenwart. Deviation One experiments with the geometry of the building surfaces of the Galerie der Gegenwart and the Lichtwark Galerie of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and addresses the internal and external structures of the contemporary and historical building in relation to spatial perception. The image composition was based on film recordings of the architecture and a precise survey of the façade. Field recordings of the sounds in the immediate vicinity of the buildings influenced Felix Kubin's sound composition.

„The combination of real and virtual spaces, as well as sounds from the environment that were fed into Kubin's sound composition, transformed the entire urban environment into a stage for a performance in which all those present were equally involved: 'The whole city participated in Deviation One. It was an interaction between public space and private space in the sense of an individual, mental-physical experience. At the same time, a collective space of experience was created in which the environment played a part.'" (Belinda Grace Gardner).[1]

Since her first mobile projection in Manhattan[5] in 2007, public space has been one of the artist's favorite fields of action. The specific characteristics of urban environments become part of the mobile projections and video performances. Building facades become dynamic projection surfaces and temporarily change their visual structure. The movement of the images in space creates perspective distortions, and the interaction of the projections with urban surfaces and objects dissolves the framing.

Exhibitions / Projections in public spaces (selection)

  • 2007: Blackrocketbear, mobile projection in public space, Scope Art Fair, Cinema-Scope, Lincoln Center/New York/USA[6]
  • 2007: Hibernation, “Video As Urban Condition,” curated by Perpetual Art Machine Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria[7]
  • 2007: Hibernation, video and installation[8] GenArt Best of the Best, Cinema-Scope, Perpetual Art Machine at Scope Miami, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Museum of Modern Art, Linz/Austria
  • 2011: Rubato, 4-channel video and sound installation with the ensemble Nelly Boyd, U.FO Kunstraum, Hamburg[9]
  • 2011: T. Koller, Part Two, 3-channel video installation, Digital Art & Sound Weekend / Transmediale, Walden Kunstausstellungen, Berlin
  • 2013: Dynamo Lines, 3-channel video installation and live sound performance with Sergej Tolksdorf, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada[10]
  • 2013: Trapez, projection in public space, Surrey Urban Screen, Surrey, Canada[11]
  • 2014: Zeichen 124, video loop in the exhibition Call “Stein In My Mind,” Hohenlockstedt, M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Hohenlockstedt
  • 2015: Hinter der Fassade, projection on the facade of the HCU, “Von Zwei bis Zwei in der Shanghai,” HafenCity University and BDA, Hamburg Architecture Summer[12]
  • 2016: Topia, 3-channel video installation, Hall 4 in Oberhafen, Hamburg[13]
  • 2017: Tour de Topia, mobile projection in public space, European Capital of Culture 2017, Aarhus, Denmark[14]
  • 2018: Juxtalektrovision, audiovisual performance, premiere, Felix Kubin (electronics/effects); Hubert Zemler (percussion/effects), Josephin Böttger (video), Future Soundscapes Festival at Silent Green, Berlin[15]
  • 2019: 10 Inch, exhibition as part of the project “Zeitgleich-Zeitzeichen” (Simultaneous Time Signals), bm Atelier, Hamburg
  • 2019: Topia II, Part Two, projection in public space, Hamburg Architecture Summer, Buenos Aires Quay, Hamburg[16]
  • 2019: Topia II, video and sound environment, Hamburg Architecture Summer, Wandlerwerk at Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg[17]
  • 2020: Chains of Mania, boiler room of Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg[18]
  • 2020: Passage, video installation for 3 halls, klubkatarakt/Kampnagel, Hamburg[19]
  • 2021: A Swimming Symphony, an audiovisual collaboration with “The Heffels,” Westwerk, Hamburg[20]
  • 2021: Deviation One, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle (premiere)[4][6]
  • 2022: PHOTON Y, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, exhibition GIVE AND TAKE. BILDER ÜBER BILDER, 8th Triennial of Photography[21]
  • 2023: DEVIATION II, Reservoir – Festival for Experimental Music and Media Art and Kunstverein Global Forest, Black Forest[22]
  • 2024: HYPERONS, curated by MIKIKO SATO GALLERY, ART OSAKA 2024, Expanded Section, Osaka, Japan[23]
  • 2025: PLASMATRON, sound installation by Felix Kubin with a mobile projection by Josephin Böttger, presented by Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House, Großer Wasserspeicher, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg[24]

Short films (selection)

  • 2005: Trust and Try
  • 2006: Hibernation, Hibertalk
  • 2007: Ninety Degrees
  • 2009: Trapez II
  • 2019: Topiaskop

Publications/Literature

  • 2006: Ding Dong Art Festival,[25]
  • 2019: Postdigital, From A to B to A, BBK, catalog[26]
  • 2020: Art after Dark, 10 Years of Urban Screen, catalog as eBook[27]
  • 2025: Deviations. Monograph[1]

Scholarships/Awards

  • 2007: Award as young artist / Cinema-Scope-Scope Art Fair, Lincoln Center, New York
  • 2014: M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation Sponsorship Award, Hohenlockstedt
  • 2016 Award, Kunstbeutel #3, “Carnivore, Mischwesen und andere Nomaden” (Carnivore, Hybrid Creatures, and Other Nomads), a project of the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media
  • 2021: Scholarship, Kulturwerk der Bild-Kunst Foundation
  • 2021: Topiaskop, best short film, Festival du Film d'Architecture et des Adventures Constructives (FIFAAC), Bordeaux
  • 2022: Scholarship, STIFTUNGKUNSTFONDS -Neustart Kultur
  • 2023: Artist-in-Residence, Kunstverein Global Forest

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Belinda Grace Gardner (2025), Josephin Böttger (ed.), Deviations, Berlin: Distanz, ISBN 978-3-95476-810-3
  2. ↑ Leona Marie Ahrens (2022). "Give and Take, Bilder über Bilder" (PDF). josephinboettger.com (in Deutsch). Hamburger Kunsthalle. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
  3. ↑ Raphael Dillhof (2019). "Topia II" (PDF). josephinboettger.com (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Deviation One". Josephin Böttger (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-10-20.
  5. ↑ "BlackRocketBear". Josephin Böttger (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-10-20.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Künstlerin über Installation im Freien: „Menschen in Publikum verwandeln“. 2021-09-17. ISSN 0931-9085.
  7. ↑ "Hibernation". Lentos (in Deutsch). 2007. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  8. ↑ "Hibernation". Josephin Böttger (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  9. ↑ Leona Marie Ahrens (2022). "Give and Take, Bilder über Bilder" (PDF). josephinboettger.com (in Deutsch). Hamburger Kunsthalle. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
  10. ↑ "Dynamo Lines". grunt.ca. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  11. ↑ "Josephin Böttger: Trapez". surrey.ca. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  12. ↑ "Hinter der Fassade". Josephin Böttger (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  13. ↑ "TOPIA". Josephin Böttger (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  14. ↑ "Tour de Topia". Josephin Böttger (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  15. ↑ Josephin Böttger. "Juxtalektrovision" (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  16. ↑ "TOPIA II mobile projection". Josephin Böttger (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  17. ↑ Josephin Böttger. "Topia II" (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-10-20.
  18. ↑ "Chains of Mania". Josephin Böttger (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  19. ↑ "Programm". Klub Katarakt (in Deutsch). 2020. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  20. ↑ Matthew Partidge. "A SWIMMING SYMPHONY". matthewpartridge.de. Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  21. ↑ "GIVE AND TAKE. BILDER ÜBER BILDER. 20.05.2022 - 28.08.2022. 8. TRIENNALE DER PHOTOGRAPHIE 2022 – CURRENCY". hamburger-kunsthalle.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  22. ↑ "JOSEPHIN BÖTTGER". global-forest.com (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-11-04.
  23. ↑ Mikiko Sato. "special exhibition on the occasion the anniversary of '35 years of twinning between Hamburg and Osaka'. Josephin Böttger, Mariella Mosler, Oliver Ross". Mikikosatogallery (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-10-30.
  24. ↑ "Zwei Klangräume – Zwei Jubiläen. Soundinstallationen in den Wasserspeichern Prenzlauer Berg. 11.-13. Juli 2025" (in Deutsch). Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
  25. ↑ Christopher Muller, Derek Richards (2007), Kim Poerksen (ed.), Ding Dong Art Festival 2006, ISBN 978-1584232698
  26. ↑ "zeitgleich-zeitzeichen 2019". zeitgleich-zeitzeichen-2019.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2025-10-20.
  27. ↑ "Art after dark" (PDF). surrey.ca. 2020. Retrieved 2025-10-20.

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