TODTNAUBERG

Not things. Their echo.

My grandfather was a Nazi. I have three portraits of him, smoking a cigar. He is the Meister aus Deutschland — the master from Germany — the figure Paul Celan conjured in Todesfuge: the one who plays with serpents, who commands, who gives orders with precision and grace.

Something is wrong, but nothing has happened yet. Unheimlichkeit photographs that suspension — a present already marked by its own end, familiar and irreparably strange.

The land remembers. Not as archive, not as monument — but as texture, as light, as the slow persistence of what has no voice. Resonances is an act of listening.

Exhibitions 2026

30th January → 13th March Aubenas — La Ferme

1st April → 2nd May, Sainte Etienne de Fontbellon

1st October → 31st October, Festival Chambre 07

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Matthias Koch (b. 1964) is a German photographer based in France. He develops long-term bodies of work in which images address memory, transmission, and the fractures of the present.