Márton Pintér, DLA

Curator of the Hungarian National Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2025

He has spent ten years in architecture, ten years outside architecture, and ten years in higher education—simultaneously. He began his career at OMA*AMO as an Creative Intern on one of the Venice Architecture Biennale’s main projects, Monditalia, an early encounter that shaped his interest in alternative uses of architectural knowledge. He earned his architecture degree at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in an unconventional way, completing a diploma project without architectural drawings. To gain direct, first-hand market experience, he founded the architectural agency VERY GOOD OFFICE not to stabilize a conventional career path but to actively question the profession’s prevailing status quo.

His professional credo is rooted in this constant challenge to architectural norms, articulated through realized projects, competition counter-proposals, critical essays, lectures, and public debates. Alongside his practice-based work he has remained deeply engaged in academia. He is an Associate Professor at Budapest Metropolitan University and the founding Head of the Environmental Design BA program, and has led numerous design-build camps while consulting on award-winning student projects across both formal and informal academic contexts.

A decade of this parallel practice was synthesized in his self-reflective PhD dissertation, The Professional, the Specialist and the Techie. At the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, he served as curator and designer of the Hungarian Pavilion exhibition There is Nothing to See Here, which celebrates architectural knowledge liberated from the constraints of the construction industry. The exhibition also introduced an updated version of a long-forgotten architectural slang term No is more…, conceived as a manifesto against the culture of performative labor, professional projection, and the dominance of quantitative thinking.

Looking ahead, his next decade is directed toward screenwriting and film directing.