Matthias Hoch (photographer)

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Matthias Hoch in the former Hotel Kobenzl, Salzburg 2016

Matthias Hoch (* 1958 in Radebeul ) is a German visual artist and photographer .

Life

Matthias Hoch studied photography from 1983 to 1988 at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art . After a DAAD study stay at the University of Essen (1990) and a master's degree at the HGB Leipzig (1991–92), he taught from 1993 to 1998 as an artistic assistant at the HGB Leipzig . In 2003 he received a scholarship from the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome and in 2013 a scholarship from the Goethe Institute for the Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto. He lives in Leipzig .

Work and reception

Matthias Hoch became known for his color photographs of the group of works “Railway Stations”, which were created in 1988 in East Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Halle and other cities in the former GDR. Pictures from this series were shown between 1992 and 1999 in the traveling exhibition “Status reports. German Photography from the 50s to 80s in East and West ”by the Institute for Foreign Relations in a total of 17 countries. You are u. a. in the collections of the Berlinische Galerie , the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig , the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich . As the curator and publicist Harald Kunde writes, "the almost deserted localities tell the story of a declining state through their shape, their coloring, their prescribed design and the traces of their use."

In the 1990s, Matthias Hoch realized series of photographs that dealt with the Reichstag building in Berlin , the Aachen University Hospital and newly built logistics centers in East Germany. This was followed by groups of works on modern functional architecture, which were created in Paris , Brussels and the Netherlands. The art magazine art describes Hoch's photographs as “economical and irritating comments on contemporary urbanity”, for the FAZ they are “adequate images for post-industrial society”.

During his one-year stay in Rome in 2003, large-format pictures and photographic “sketches” were created, which were published in Ingo Schulze's collection of stories “Oranges and Angels” in 2010. These 48 photographs reflect, as the Märkische Allgemeine writes, “in a wonderfully casual way the direct juxtaposition of the banal and the sublime”, “Image and text combine to form a subtle dialogue.” ( NZZ )

For his work on the abandoned corporate headquarters of Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt am Main (“Silver Tower, 2009-11”), Hoch received a working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony .

In summer 2016, Matthias Hoch presented his work on the transformation of a former Salzburg luxury hotel in simultaneous presentations in the Fotohof Salzburg and the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig ("Hotel Kobenzl, 2014-16"). The 3sat-Kulturzeit presenter Ernst A. Grandits described the pictures as follows: "Matthias Hoch's photographs make the passage of time visible. They are poetic testimonies to an apparently unstoppable change, both on a small and large scale."

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

Publications (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome, scholarship holders 2003 ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.villamassimo.de
  2. ↑ Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, 2013 scholarship holders
  3. ^ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Online Collection: Matthias Hoch, from the series Bahnhöfe (1988) ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / skd-online-collection.skd.museum
  4. ↑ Harald Kunde, Abglanz des Everyday, in: Matthias Hoch, Photographs / Photographs, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2005.
  5. ↑ Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg: Matthias Hoch, Photographs, 2000
  6. ↑ Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen: Matthias Hoch, Photography, 2006 ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ludwigforum.de
  7. ↑ Susanne Altmann, The city as a stage without actors, art, 4/2005, p. 89.
  8. ↑ Ludger Derenthal, From the smile of faceless cities, FAZ, May 24, 2000, p. 54.
  9. ↑ Ingo Schulze, Oranges and Angels, Italian Sketches, Berlin Verlag, 2010
  10. ^ Marion Lühe, Inconspicuous Stories, Märkische Allgemeine, June 10, 2010, p. 10.
  11. ↑ Beatrix Langner , Alles Ganz normal, NZZ, July 15, 2010, p. 20.
  12. ↑ Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Funding 2010
  13. ↑ Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm: Matthias Hoch, Silver Tower, 2010 (engl.)
  14. ↑ 3sat Kulturzeit extra: Salzburg Festival 2016, August 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Up, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Radebeul