Johannes Büttner moves between past and present, and between speculative imaginaries and science-based socio-economic realities. His work reflects on the future in all its potentialities, while remaining sharply attuned to planetary crises.

He draws on contemporary and historical countercultures, political manifestos, cyberpunk, DIY YouTube tutorials, as well as spiritualism and (urban) myths—treating them as prisms through which to examine the production of ideology and belief. He is currently a PhD candidate at the HFBK Hamburg.

Selected exhibitions include K21 Düsseldorf, Istanbul Biennial, Kunsthalle Mainz, and Palais de Tokyo. His films have been screened at Visions du Réel, DOK.fest München, and Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, and broadcast on ARTE and ZDF.

Johannes Büttner is contributing artist to Kunst Raum Mitte’s 2026 program DISSOLUTIONS.

Johannes Büttner moves between past and present, and between speculative imaginaries and science-based socio-economic realities. His work reflects on the future in all its potentialities, while remaining sharply attuned to planetary crises.

He draws on contemporary and historical countercultures, political manifestos, cyberpunk, DIY YouTube tutorials, as well as spiritualism and (urban) myths—treating them as prisms through which to examine the production of ideology and belief. He is currently a PhD candidate at the HFBK Hamburg.

Selected exhibitions include K21 Düsseldorf, Istanbul Biennial, Kunsthalle Mainz, and Palais de Tokyo. His films have been screened at Visions du Réel, DOK.fest München, and Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, and broadcast on ARTE and ZDF.

Johannes Büttner is contributing artist to Kunst Raum Mitte’s 2026 program DISSOLUTIONS.