Burkhard Meltzer is a Zurich-based writer, researcher and curator.
Meltzer has co-edited books and magazines on contemporary art and design. He has been contributing to publications such as artforum.com, form and frieze magazine. From 2003 to 2007, Burkhard Meltzer worked in the curatorial team of the Kunsthalle St. Gallen, as a curatorial assistant until 2006, and as a curator and director until 2007. He has been associate lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) since 2006. Senior researcher at ZHdK`s Institute for Critical Theory from 2008-2015 and at the Shared Campus network from 2022.