Not things. Their echo. TODTNAUBERG
Matthias Koch is a European photographic artist exploring memory, transformation, and the invisible structures that shape contemporary life.
Through long-term projects spanning landscapes, archives, and human experience, his work investigates how personal, historical, and social forces persist across time.
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.
Unheimlichkeit unfolds within a world on borrowed time. Developed in dialogue with philosopher Claude Molzino, the photographs capture fragments of a present already marked by its own end — a time suspended between persistence and collapse.
Resonances explores how a territory retains the memory of human gestures, past lives, and the living world, at a moment when our relationship to the land is being fundamentally reconsidered.