Lorenza Böttner

Lorenza Böttner (6 March 1959 – 13 January 1994) was a Chilean–German disabled transgender multidisciplinary visual artist.

Born in Chile, she moved to Germany following the amputation of both of her arms as a child, where she studied and began a career in art. Using several art media, including performance pieces and a method called "danced painting", she depicted social outcasts, and she portrayed Petra during opening and the closing ceremonies at the 1992 Summer Paralympics. Her self-portraiture featured eroticized and nurturing depictions of herself.

Diagnosed with HIV in 1985, she died in 1994 of AIDS-related complications in Munich. While she did not receive widespread recognition of her work during her life, documenta and Paul B. Preciado began showing her work from 2016 onward, and she is now recognized for her contributions to art history and representing disability in art.