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Matthias Hoch, German b. 1958
Hoch studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.
His photographs are images of contemporary urbanity. In lucid compositions, his photos expose the materials of the modern age in all of their austere sensuality. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, they are 'adequate images for postindustrial society.' Objects are positioned precisely and with a keen sense of surface quality in the pictorial format and often evoke irritatingly ambiguous and puzzling effects by virtue of the artist's choice of scale and perspective. Beginning with the rapidly changing urban landscapes of eastern Germany, the photographer has been exploring the ubiquitous formal language of modern European urban development. The views he presents seem virtually impossible to localize. They document Hoch's critical, analytical approach to the space around us, yet they also exhibit a remarkable sculptural quality.
Solo exhibitions include the Goethe-Institut Paris (2022), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (2016), Fotohof Salzburg (2016), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (2014), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen (2006), and Kunsthalle Bremen (2002). He has participated in group shows at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2021), Museum Kurhaus Kleve (2020), Centre de la photographie Genève (2018), Paço Imperial Rio de Janeiro (2017), ZKM Karlsruhe (2013), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2013), Berlinische Galerie (2012), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2009).
Matthias Hoch has received residency fellowships at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2018/19), at the Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan (2013), and at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, Italy (2003). His work is included in public collections such as the Berlinische Galerie, Kunsthalle Bremen, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Pinakothek der Moderne München, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
