Matthias von Hartz

Matthias von Hartz studied economics and directing in London and Hamburg. After staging productions at municipal theaters and international production houses, he developed series with artists, scientists, and activists for museums and theaters. In 2007, he founded the EU network IMAGINE 2020 on art and climate change with European partners and has since been involved with ecological issues in art, both in terms of content and structure. From 2007 to 2011, he directed the Impulse Festival with Tom Stromberg and, until 2012, the International Summer Festival Hamburg at Kampnagel. After directing the Foreign Affairs / Berliner Festspiele festival, he worked as artistic advisor to the Manchester International Festival MIF from 2016 and curated the international program of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. Since 2018, he has been co-director and artistic director of the Zurich Theater Spektakel.