Matthias Koch, born in 1964 in Southern Germany, is an artist and photographer. His journey—which led him to live in Venezuela, Chile, and Mexico before settling in Ardèche—has forged a perspective marked by exile, one that turns toward the margins, instability, and what teeters on the edge.

Koch develops a free and unconventional photographic approach. For him, the image is not a tool for explanation, but an instrument for philosophical investigation and resistance to erasure, seeking to capture the world's silences.

His work revolves around the notion of Impermanence and the complex interaction between Humans, Space, and Time. Each shot emerges from a gesture of humble attention: a face in transformation, a fragile light, or a landscape steeped in memory.

Through his series—Metamorphosis, Todtnauberg, Figures of a World at Risk (or Figures d'un Monde en Sursis)—Matthias Koch traces a sensitive cartography of the ephemeral and the fragile. He explores this Unheimlichkeit, this "uncanny familiarity" that haunts his works, often in direct dialogue with thought. His recent collaboration with French philosopher Claude Molzino (notably on the work Figures d'un Monde en Sursis) fully positions his approach within a search for truth through art.

For Matthias Koch, photography is a singular way of inhabiting the world with humility, offering a privileged space for resonance, memory, and emotion