Matthias Hoch   German | born 1958    

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Matthias Hoch has had two solo exhibitions at Rocket. The first in 2000 featured his large-format photographs of La Défense in Paris. Eight years later in 2008 his second solo show reflected his continuing fascination with contemporary architecture and featured work from The Netherlands – Rotterdam, Naarden and in particular Almere, one of the youngest of Dutch cities. Hoch photographs the backs of buildings, empty plazas and parking garages – anonymous places devoid of people where there is nothing obvious to see or experience.

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Armed with a large-format camera and analogue film material, Hoch pursues the path he has mapped out

for himself – with curiosity and the instincts of a skilled tracker – exploring the world that surrounds him,

identifying its constituent parts and structures.    Thomas Seelig, Land without Horizon, 2005

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Hoch lives and works in Leipzig. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and at the University of Essen. In 1993 he was awarded a DAAD travel scholarship to the UK; in 2003 he had a scholarship to the German Academy, Villa Massimo, Rome; in 2013 a Goethe-Institut Scholarship to the Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto, Japan. During 2019 he participated in a six-month residency programme at Cité  Internationale des Arts, Paris.

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