Matthias Karch

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Matthias Karch (born August 15, 1956 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German architect , set designer and costume designer .

Life

Karch studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin . From 1984 to 1987 he studied stage design at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Achim Freyer and from 1987 to 1989 he worked as a stage and costume design assistant at the Burgtheater in Vienna while Claus Peymann was in charge . He assisted the set designers Luciano Damiani , Achim Freyer and Karl-Ernst Herrmann, among others .

In 1990 he received the Josef Kainz Medal of the City of Vienna for stage and costumes for the play What is called here love , realized at the Burgtheater. He has been working as a freelance stage and costume designer since 1990 and has so far implemented around eighty projects in various cities in Germany as well as in Vienna, Basel, Zurich and New York. From 1992 to 1993 he was head of equipment at the Landestheater Tübingen and from 1993 to 1995 first stage designer and art director at the Staatstheater Kassel .

In 1995 he founded the Studio for Architecture and Scenography (OZA) in Berlin. Matthias Karch was from 1995 to 2003 professor at the Hochschule Anhalt at the Bauhaus in Dessau . Since 2003 he has been a professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig . There he heads the Institute of Media and Design (IMD) in the Department of Architecture.

Realization projects (selection)

  • 2020 With your own eyes. Scenographic group exhibition in the Kunsthaus of the Achim Freyer Foundation, Berlin
  • 2019 new vision. Scenographic models for the exhibition at the Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation, Berlin
  • 2018 film in the Weimar Republic. Draft of the models for the exhibition: Kino der Moderne, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
  • 2017 With eyes wide closed. Exhibition design, KISD _Köln International School of Design, Cologne
  • 2016 marching orders. The Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg. Curation and exhibition design, Topography of Terror, Berlin
  • 2015 Bigger than life. Ken Adam's Film Design, draft of the models for the Ken Adam exhibition at the Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation, Berlin
  • 2014 Meat, Schaubühne Berlin
  • 2013 Out of Control. Exhibition in the former IBM building on Ernst Reuter Platz, Berlin
  • 2012 InForm. Exhibition in the raumLabor, Braunschweig
  • 2010 Sukkah City. Temporary architecture in Union Square, Manhattan, New York
  • 2006 What you want, Saarbrücken State Theater
  • 2005 The Comedian Harmonists, Nationaltheater Mannheim
  • 2004 Volpone, Saarbrücken State Theater
  • 2002 Minna von Barnhelm, Saarbrücken State Theater
  • 1999 Angels in America, Nationaltheater Mannheim
  • 1998 L'Illusion comique, Nationaltheater Mannheim
  • 1996 Oktoberföhn, Mülheim Theater Days
  • 1995 Maria Stuart, Theater Dortmund
  • 1989 What does love mean here, Burgtheater Vienna
  • 1989 Ah! Ça ira, Akademietheater Vienna

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Matthias Karch (profile) ( Memento from July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on arch.tu-braunschweig.de, accessed on July 27, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Karch, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, set designer and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein