Matthias Hoch

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Matthias Hoch is a visual artist and photographer, based in Leipzig, Germany.

Matthias Hoch’s 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.

Matthias Hoch (*1958 in Radebeul) studied photography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Solo exhibitions include Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (2016), Fotohof Salzburg (2016), Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig (2015), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (2014), Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco (2011), Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (2010), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen (2006), and Kunsthalle Bremen (2002). He has participated in group shows at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro (2017), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2014), ZKM Karlsruhe (2013), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2013), Berlinische Galerie (2012), and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2009). In 2013 he was a recipient of the Goethe-Institut's Villa Kamogawa scholarship in Kyoto, Japan. In 2003 he won the German Academy Villa Massimo scholarship in Rome, Italy. His work is included in such public collections as Berlinische Galerie, Kunsthalle Bremen, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Pinakothek der Moderne München, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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