Stéphane V. Bottéro is an artist and sometimes curator working at the intersection of social practice, installation, writing, and gardening based in London. With a background in environmental science, he is interested in the entanglements of community, materiality, body and place. Based on site-specific research and durational interventions, his practice explores pedagogies of repairing. He co-initiated the collaborative platform The School of Mutants in Dakar in 2018. In the framework of the exhibition Critical Zones at ZKM, he initiated the Katzenwedelwiese project in Karlsruhe, a collaborative socio-ecological artwork and orchard meadow restoration effort that has developed continuously since 2019. His work has been exhibited at biennales, museums, and festivals, including: ZKM, Karlsruhe; 4th Autostrada Biennale; Centre Pompidou Metz; 12th Berlin Biennale; 14th Dakar Biennale; RAW Material Company, Dakar; 12th Taipei Biennial; 7th Oslo Triennale; Le Lieu Unique, Nantes; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; Sheffield DocFest. He has lectured and taught at Leeds School of Art, HEAD Geneva, Ensad Paris, HKB Bern, St Lukas Antwerp.

IG: @stephane.verlet.bottero @katzenwedelwiese

Photo credits: Oliver Selim Boualam