Matthias Hoch erhält von der Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn eine Förderung für die digitale Dokumentation seines bisherigen künstlerischen Schaffens. Matthias Hoch receives funding from the Kunstfonds Bonn foundation for the digital documentation of his artistic oeuvre to date. https://www.kunstfonds.de/aktuelles/details/259900-euro-fuer-werkverzeichnungen
Paintings, photographs, sculptures, weavings & books exploring Geometry & Colour by Bram Braam, Sigrid Calon, Cedric Christie, Michelle Grabner, Charles Hill, Matthias Hoch, Ditty Ketting, Zora Kreuzer, Martin Parr, Carter Potter, Lars Wolter.
14 June - 29 November 2025
Rocket Gallery, 4-6 Sheep Lane
London E8 4QS, United Kingdom
+44 20 7254 8391
rocketgallery.com
List of works: artlogic.net
Art Tombola on 13 September 2025 at Spinnerei Leipzig for cultural and democracy projects in rural Saxony, organized by Land in Sicht e.V.: Every ticket wins! For €200, you can support these projects and receive one of 200 works of art donated by Leipzig artists for this purpose. Artist list: land-in-sicht-ev.de/tombola/
My donation: Matthias Hoch, Leipzig V, 1986, silver gelatin print, motif 26 x 33 cm, sheet 40 x 50 cm, © VG Bildkunst Bonn.
Enlarged from a 6x7 negative in the HGB Leipzig darkroom on ORWO paper in 1986. The motif is part of the series “Stadt” (City, 1986-92) and was shown in its larger final format in my exhibitions at Jochen Hempel, Leipzig (2023) and Nagel Draxler, Berlin (2021). It is also part of the cassette “Foto-Anschlag” (Leipzig, 1988).
It shows the portal of the former Leipzig Artists’ House at Nikischplatz 2, a masterpiece of Art Nouveau, built in 1900 and destroyed in World War II in 1943. When I took this photo, however, I knew nothing about this; there was no indication of the place’s history. In 2013, the portal was renovated and the historic lettering was added. Further information here on wikipedia
Update: The raffle was a great success, with all 200 tickets sold out within 50 minutes. The proceeds of €40,000 will go entirely to cultural and democracy projects in Saxony. Contact and Information: land-in-sicht-ev.de Donations are always welcome.
In honor of its 50th anniversary, Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present the second in a series of exhibitions celebrating the Gallery’s history and early roots, this time highlighting photography and video art with work by: Dawoud Bey, Sophie Calle, Jim Campbell, Doug Hall, Matthias Hoch, Len Jenshel, Chip Lord, and Vik Muniz.
RBG at 50: Photo & Video, June 21 – August 21, 2025
Rena Bransten Gallery, 1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco, CA 94107
https://renabranstengallery.com/exhibitions/rbg-at-50-photo-video/
For 50 years Rena Bransten has guided the Gallery on the principals of close relationships, humanity, and belief in current scholarship. Advocacy for and friendships with artists and arts professionals has always been at the core of the Gallery’s ethos. As Bransten states, she is “very lucky, and it has been an extraordinary life in art.” (from the Press Release, June 2025. Photo: before the opening of the gallery space at 77 Geary Street, San Francisco, 1987. Credit: John Vaughan/RBG)
I am very happy and proud to be part of this exhibition and the gallery’s history. Since 1997, Rena Bransten Gallery has shown my work in five solo and six group exhibitions. Many thanks to Rena & Trish Bransten, Jenny Baie, and the entire team, and congratulations on the gallery’s 50th anniversary! Here are three invitation cards to my exhibitions:
Eines Tages ist es dann doch zu einer Eröffnung gekommen, wird es heißen, und das Ganze hat den Betrieb aufgenommen, das wird sehr merkwürdig wirken. And then one day it did open, they will say, and the whole thing will have gone into operation, and it will seem very weird.
Man wird den einzelnen Bauteilen noch lange ihre Verpackung anmerken, man wird sie freilegen müssen durch Nutzung, freilegen von all dem anderen Verpackungsmüll im übertragenen Sinn, den Stillhaltefolien und Schonbezügen, Schutzschichten, die man nicht mehr als solche erkennen kann, vor allem nach einem so langen Baugeschehen. The individual component parts and the packaging will still be noticeable for some time; they will have to be unwrapped and exposed through use, unwrapped from all the other packaging rubbish, figuratively speaking, the protective film and the dust covers, protective layers no longer recognisable as such, especially after such a long construction phase.
Kathrin Röggla, aus/from „Letzter Rundgang/ Final Inspection“, in: „Matthias Hoch, BER“, Spector Books, Leipzig 2021. Translated from the German by Stephen B. Grynwasser.
The exhibition uses Leipzig as a geographical interface and point of reference to bring together 22 positions in a multifaceted spectrum of contemporary photography.
Works by Laura Bielau, Joachim Brohm, Cihan Çakmak, Kerstin Flake, Caroline Hake, Matthias Hoch, Margret Hoppe, Silke Koch, Edgar Leciejewski, Carina Linge, Nadin Maria Rüfenacht, Ricarda Roggan, Adrian Sauer, Ramona Schacht, Oskar Schmidt, Valentina Seidel, Björn Siebert, Sebastian Stumpf, Anett Stuth, Anna Vovan, Uwe Walter, Arthur Zalewski. Curated by Danny Otto and Klaus Fischer.
Fokus Foto, June 17 – August 22, 2025
Kunstverein Freunde Aktueller Kunst
Hauptstr. 60/62, 08056 Zwickau
freunde-aktueller-kunst.de
photography-now.com/exhibition/171582
Fotografien im Auftrag der Klassik Stiftung Weimar: Fundort und Aufbewahrungsort des Manuskripts von Faust II. Damals hatte es Goethe in einem Schrank seines Arbeitszimmers versteckt. Heute wird es im klimatisierten Magazin des Goethe- und Schiller-Archivs aufbewahrt. Photographs commissioned by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar: where the manuscript of Faust II was found and is now stored. At the time, Goethe had hidden it in a cupboard in his study. Today it is kept in the air-conditioned Goethe and Schiller Archive.
»Als Goethes Mitarbeiter nach seinem Tod alles akribisch verzeichneten, was sie im Arbeitszimmer fanden, lag das Manuskript im Pappelholzschrank unter vielerlei anderem, von Pappkapseln mit Spottgedichten bis zu einem Konvolut mit der Aufschrift „Unleserliches, Zweifelhaftes“. Nicht singulär herausgehoben also, sondern schon fast im papiernen „Dünenschutt“ versteckt.« Petra Lutz, Nachrichten ins Anthropozän, S. 8
»Es wurde mir erstaunlich feierlich zumute bei der Betrachtung und geistigen Betastung. Die Bindung der feinsäuberlich zueinandergelegten Lagen - ein herrlicher Blätterteig! - ist in Aktenstichheftung und drei schmalen Pergamentriegeln gefertigt.« Nora Gomringer, Unboxing Faust II, S.14
Klassisch Modern: Faust. Mit Beiträgen von Petra Ahne, Antje Boetius, Dietmar Dath, Heinrich Detering, Heike Geißler, Nora Gomringer, Lena Gorelik, Dana Grigorcea, Halldór Gudmundsson, Anne Haug, Matthias Hoch, Petra Lutz, Michał Matejko, Thomas Schmuck, Julia Voss, Gordon Welters; Gestaltung Stan Hema, Sara Božić; Redaktion Silke Müller, Sophia Schalt, Bastian Denker. Das Magazin der Klassik Stiftung Weimar, 2025. Auflage 150.000 Expl. klassik-stiftung.de/magazin
Focus on Photography - Recent Additions to the Collection
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 4 December 2024 — 2 March 2025
https://mdbk.de/en/exhibitions/fokus-fotografie/
Under the title “Focus on Photography”, the MdbK will in future provide insights into the Photographic Collection at irregular intervals. It will begin with a selection of recent acquisitions, donations and permanent loans. Following the gradual establishment of photography as an equal form of expression in the visual arts from the end of the 1970s, the collection initially grew rather sporadically. In the last 20 years, however, it has been continuously expanded - not least thanks to the commitment of private and institutional sponsors.
The selected new additions were created in the last 60 years and come from eleven different photographers from three generations: Kerstin Flake (*1967), Erich-W. Hartzsch (*1952), Matthias Hoch (*1958), Jan Mammey (*1972), Klara Meinhardt (*1987), Falk Messerschmidt (*1982), Evelyn Richter (1930-2021), Ricarda Roggan (*1972), Erasmus Schröter (1956-2021), Andrzej Steinbach (*1983) and Marion Wenzel (*1958). Curated by Dr. Philipp Freytag, Curator Photography and Media Art at the MdbK Leipzig.
Almost all of the artists have a connection to the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts (HGB). In addition to social documentary positions, there are conceptual, often media-reflective approaches.Some image sequences are narrative, others are serial.Black and white photographs alternate with color photographs, and classic exposures stand alongside prints. There are also infrared photographs, a cyanotype as well as collages and overpaintings.The collection presentation thus unites a remarkable variety of photographic means of expression and at the same time offers a fragmentary overview of the recent history of photography in Leipzig.
Finissage on Sunday, 2 March 2025, 11 am, a guided tour with the curator and artists.
Capital Extra: Der grosse Kunstkompass, Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg, Oktober 2024
p. 7 - Tizian, Der Zinsgroschen, 1516
p. 8/9 - Matthias Hoch, Silver Tower #3, 2009
p. 10 - Christian Jankowski, Die Jagd, 1992
p. 11 - Barbara Kruger, I shop therefore I am, 1987
»Ein Fest im Oktober«. Fotografie: Matthias Hoch, Leipzig, 16. Oktober 1989. Poster der Stiftung Friedliche Revolution, Leipzig 2024. www.stiftung-fr.de
Sechs Billboards mit Motiven aus der Serie »Silver Tower, Frankfurt am Main, 2009-11« sind als ortsspezifische fotografische Arbeit auf einer Freifläche zu sehen. Die Tafeln korrespondieren mit einem Pavillon, der ursprünglich in den 1970er Jahren von ABB und Otl Aicher im gleichen Corporate Design wie die Zentrale der Dresdner Bank entwickelt wurde und der jetzt von der nGbK als temporäres “Klassenzimmer der Zukunft” genutzt wird. Weitere Fotografien sind rund um die Uhr im Schaufenster der station urbaner kulturen als Slideshow und Leuchtkasten zu sehen.
Six billboards with motifs from the series »Silver Tower, Frankfurt am Main, 2009-11« are on view as a site-specific photographic work on a green area. The images correspond to a pavilion originally developed in the 1970s by ABB and Otl Aicher in the same corporate design as the Dresdner Bank headquarters. This summer, the modified pavilion has been used by the nGbK as a temporary »classroom of the future«. More photographs can be seen around the clock as a slideshow and lightbox in the shop windows of the station urbaner kulturen.
Related Events:
Open Air Film Screening »Abwärts« (Carl Schenkel, 1984), 15 August, 9 pm.
»Unter dir die Stadt« (Christoph Hochhäusler, 2010), 7 September, 8:30 pm.
Artist Talk with Matthias Hoch, Anna Voswinckel (Camera Austria, Graz) and Jochen Becker (nGbK), 14 September, 5 pm, as part of the Berlin Art Week, berlinartweek.de Place Internationale, green area near U5 Station Cottbusser Platz, 12619 Berlin
Matthias Hoch, Silver Tower Pavilion, until 15 September 2024 (station urbaner kulturen until 8 September 2024), neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Berlin, ngbk.de
