Item Tag: Architecture

MATTHIAS HOCH (b. 1958, Germany) ‘Rom (Rome) #19’, 2004/2005 SIGNED Color PhotographColor Coupler Print (C-Print / Chromogenic / Ektacolor), 2001/2002, ed. 25. Dimensions: 17-1/2″ x 22″ sheet, 13-1/4″ x 16-3/4″ image. Professionally and archivally hinged into 19-3/4″ x 23-3/4″ mat. SIGNED, titled ‘Rom 19, 2004’ and numbered ‘8/25’ in black marker by artist on verso. Excellent condition aside from slight rippling at hinges (in margins under mat). REFERENCE: Matthias Hoch: Fotografien / Photographs, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2005, plate 54. This image is from a recent series of photographs done in Rome, Italy, that reflect the influence of a softer, more ‘southerly’ light. Yet here as well, Matthias Hoch persistently documents developments – and wrong turns – in European urban architecture of the past several decades. Matthias Hoch’s photographs of interiors and exteriors function both as a study of architectural detail and a commentary on the dehumanizing aspects of contemporary city planning. Often starkly monumental, his powerful compositions derive rhythm from sequences of elements and color fields, whether glass windows in an office building, or corrugated steel wall panels. Although photographed in cities throughout Europe, Hoch’s focused approach decontextualizes his subject material, melding distinct individual features into a shared architectural vocabulary. Hoch’s delight in capturing the unexpected or overlooked in cities is often humorously underlined by the works titles which divulge the general, if not specific, subject location. Hoch received his Degree in Photography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany. He has exhibited throughout Europe, Canada and America and has work in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; and Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany. SELECT RECENT EXHIBITIONS: 2024’Compilation’ (group exhibition), Rockey Gallery, London, UK 2023 ‘Matthias Hoch: Silver Tower’, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Berlin, Germany 2021 ‘Matthias Hoch: Stadt. Fotografien 1986-92’, Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin, Germany ‘Voyage, voyage’ (group exhibition), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany ‘Matthias Hoch: BER’, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany 2020 ‘Resonance – Artists on Niemeyer’ (group exhibition), TechneSphere Leipzig, Hall9, Leipzig, Germany 2019 ‘Moderne. Ikonografie. Fotografie. Das Bauhaus und die Folgen 1919-2019’ (group exhibition), Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany 2018 ‘Zerrissene Gesellschaft / Broken Bonds’ (group exhibition), Centre de la Photographie Genève (CPG), Genève, Switzerland 2016 ‘Matthias Hoch: Hotel Kobenzl – Die Geschichte eines Hauses’, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria Matthias Hoch: Hotel Kobenzl’, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 2015 ‘Matthias Hoch: Silver Tower’, Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, Germany 2014 ‘Matthias Hoch: Silver Tower’, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany ‘Matthias Hoch: Silver Tower’, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany 2013 ‘Matthias Hoch: Silver Tower’, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany 2012 ‘Matthias Hoch: Train Stations’, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany 2011 ‘Matthias Hoch: Train Stations / Night’, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 ‘Matthias Hoch: Silver Tower’, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden ‘Sammlung Bergmeier’ (group exhibition), Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin, Germany ‘Mit Abstand – Ganz nah. Fotografie aus Leipzig’ (group exhibition), Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany 2009 ‘Die andere Leipziger Schule – Fotografie in der DDR’ (group exhibition), Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany ‘Denk ich an Deutschland…’ (group exhibition), DZ Bank Art Foyer, Frankfurt, Germany ‘East – For the Record / Zu Protokoll’ and ’60/40/20: Leipziger Kunst seit 1949′ (group exhibitions), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany ‘Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures’ (group exhibition), National Museum of German Art, Nuremberg, Germany ‘Carte Blanche VI: VNG’ (group exhibition), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK) Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany ‘Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures’ (group exhibition), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA ‘Mit Abstand – Ganz nah: Fotografie aus Leipzig’ (group exhibition), Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, Germany 2008 ‘Matthias Hoch: New Works’, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA ‘Matthias Hoch: New Photographs’, Rocket Gallery, London, UK ‘Matthias Hoch’, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany ‘Matthias Hoch’, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ‘The Leipzig Phenomenon’ (group exhibition), Mücsarnok – Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary ‘Von Kunst und Politik’ (group exhibition), Kunst-Raum im Deutschen Bundestag, Berlin, Germany 2007 ‘berlin_nl’ (group exhibition), Niederländische Botschaft, Berlin, Germany ‘Picturing Eden’ (group exhibition), Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego, CA ‘Leerräume des Erzählens’ (group exhibition), Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany ‘Fotografierte Landschaften’ (group exhibition), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany ‘Made in Leipzig’ (group exhibition), Schloss Hartenfels, Torgau, Germany ‘Stichwort Gegenwart’ (group exhibition), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany ‘Picturing Eden’ (group exhibition), University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA 2006 ‘Made in Leipzig’ (group exhibition), Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria ‘Matthias Hoch: Fotografie’, Studio d’Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome, Italy ‘Matthias Hoch: Fotografie’, Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany ‘Matthias Hoch und MK Kähne: realfiktiv’, Guardini Galerie, Berlin, Germany ‘Matthias Hoch: Photographs’, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 ‘Matthias Hoch’, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany ‘Matthias Hoch’, Lindenau-Museum Altenburg, Altenburg, Germany SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Berlinische Galerie, Berlin Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, Germany DZ-Bank Frankfurt, Germany KPN Collectie Fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands Kunstfondes die Freistaates Sachsen, Dresden, Germany Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany Museum der bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, Germany Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria Sammlung Kunne, Hannover, Germany Stadtishe Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY StoreICON ABOVE Pay me securely with any major credit card through PayPal!