Human

Christoph Matt is an Austrian eco-social designer and interdisciplinary facilitator with a diverse background in design, visual arts, sustainability, and posthumanism. He has a BA in InterMedia in sustainability and graphic design focus from FHV University of Applied Sciences, Austria, and completed studies at Bilgi University in Turkey. His education continued with a MFA in Embedded Design, emphasizing sustainability and design, at HDK-Valand in Sweden, including an exchange program at Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavik. Christoph has guest lectured and hosted workshops at institutions such as Iceland University of the Arts, University Centre of the Westfjords, in Iceland, HDK-Valand, Chalmers University of Technology, KV Konstskola, in Gothenburg, Sweden, and FHV University of Applied Sciences in Austria. He has also presented at international design festivals and conferences and conducted workshops focusing on nature-human relationships through design and artistic practice. He actively participates in the Design + Posthumanism Network and The Conference of the Birds project in Scandinavia. He founded and co-curated the Nature Design Camp with UNESCO Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal and publishes the Nature Design Guide, fostering connections between humans and nature which earned the University of Gothenburg Sustainability Thesis Award in 2022. Within the PUBLIC–US project, Catherin Schöberl invited Christoph to work together with marginalised communities on decolonising public monuments in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. Additionally, Christoph co-founded the interdisciplinary art collective Sympoietic Society, focusing on the extinction of glaciers and bodies of water in Finland, Italy, and Austria. As part of the Dear Deer artist duo with Isadora Alves, he engages in the Archives of the Earth project, combining on-site printmaking and text writing in volcanic habitats. In addition to his research and artistic endeavours, Christoph is working both, on-site and remote with regional and international clients upon request.

AWARD

(2022) The University of Gothenburg Sustainability Thesis Award (GUSTA), Gothenburg, Sweden
(2022) De Structura, Selected emerging European artist

GRANT

(2024) Culture Moves Europe, Hafnar.haus, Reykjavik, Iceland
(2023) Erasmus+ enterprise exchange, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
(2023) LEADER project funding, Vorarlberg, Austria
(2023) KLAR! Climate Change Adaptation Model Regions for Austria, Thüringerberg, Austria
(2023) LEADER project funding, Vorarlberg, Austria
(2023) Erasmus+ enterprise exchange, University Centre of the Westfjords, Isafjordur, Iceland
(2022) The University of Gothenburg Sustainability Thesis Award (GUSTA) research grant, Gothenburg, Sweden
(2022) KLAR! Climate Change Adaptation Model Regions for Austria, St. Gerold, Austria
(2021) Erasmus Scholarship, Reykjavik, Iceland
(2020) Theodor och Hanne Mannheimmer Scholarship, Gothenburg, Sweden
(2015) Erasmus Scholarship, Valencia, Spain
(2015) Erasmus Scholarship, Istanbul, Turkey

RESIDENCY

(2024) Design and Posthumanism curatorial exchange, Vienna, Austria
(2024) Hafnar.haus art residency, Reykjavik, Iceland
(2023 – 2024) Corrispondenze Magazine, Vienna, Austria
(2023) ICE residency, UNESCO Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal, Austria, in collaboration with the Walserherbst Festival
(2023) ICE residency, Parco dell’Adamello, Italy, in partnership with Avanzi and Casa Del Parco dell’Adamello
(2023) FIUMANA, Foodwave Festival, Milano, Italy
(2023) ICE residency, Sideby, Finland, in partnership with Ymmärrys ry and Kilens Hembygdsgård
(2023) TARA Art for Ocean finalist shortlist, Paris, France

PUBLICATION

(2024) Hafnar.Zine #3, artist zine, Hafnar.haus, Reykjavik, Iceland
(2024) Hafnar.Zine #2, artist zine, Hafnar.haus, Reykjavik, Iceland
(2024) ARCHIVES OF THE EARTH Reykjanes, Iceland, participatory research artist book, Turin, Italy
(2024) Hafnar.Zine #1, artist zine, Hafnar.haus, Reykjavik, Iceland
(2023) Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture, magazine feature, Cambridge, England
(2023) Never Forever, glacier register, Thüringerberg, Austria
(2023) Nature Design Guide ll, art book, St. Gerold, Austria
(2023) A flash of light united those who saw it and yet an abyss, Adamello, Italy
(2023) FIUMANA, interactive text and exercise art book, Milano, Italy
(2023) ARCHIVES OF THE EARTH, art book, Isafjordur, Iceland
(2022) Nature Design Guide l, art book, St. Gerold, Austria
(2022) Building relations with nature by design methods, explorative paper, Gothenburg, Sweden
(2021) Everything is going to be alright, fanzine, Reykjavik, Iceland

PRESS

(2023) Vorarlberger Nachrichten, newspaper feature, Dornbirn, Austria
(2023) Radio Proton, podcast, Dornbirn, Austria
(2023) Heimat, newspaper feature, Dornbirn, Austria
(2023) Vorarlberger Nachrichten, newspaper feature, Dornbirn, Austria
(2023) REGIO-V, newsletter feature, Vorarlberg, Austria
(2023) Design+Posthumanism network feature, Gothenburg, Sweden
(2023) Talschafft feature, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Großes Walsertal, Austria
(2023) REGIO-V feature, Vorarlberg, Austria
(2023) Talschafft feature, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria
(2023) REGIO-V feature, Vorarlberg, Austria
(2022) Vorarlberger Nachrichten feature, Dornbirn, Austria
(2022) REGIO-V feature, Vorarlberg, Austria
(2022) Alpenverein Austria feature, Bludenz, Austria
(2022) Talschafft feature, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria
(2022) The Conference of the Birds feature, Gothenburg, Sweden (2022) Design and posthumanism network feature, Gothenburg, Sweden
(2017) STRAKS magazine, Dornbirn, Austria
(2017) PAGE magazine, Hamburg, Germany
(2017) Design made in Austria platform, Vienna, Austria

Don't hesitate to contact me from Monday to Friday daytime for work and collaboration, availability varies according to the weather of the great outdoors. 

Christoph Matt MFA
Eco-Social Designer

Studio Matt
Responsibility for
Nature and Humans

+43 (0)664 95 91 333
christophmatt.com
@christophmatt