The image: a face.

Mine.

Unvarnished, unguarded.
Close-up

= close responsibility.
Not the art of beauty.

But of trace.

Of guilt, perhaps.

(Or memory,

if one wishes to soften it.)

MATTHIAS KOCH

b. 1964, Germany — Lives and works in Ardèche, France

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Solo Exhibitions

2026 Sainte Eulalie, Café au Soleil, France, Mexico

2026 Centre Culturel, Sainte-Étienne-de-Fontbellon, France
Mexico

2026 La Ferme, Aubenas, France
Unheimlichkeit — Figures d'un monde en sursis

2025 Festival Chambre 07, 8th edition, Ardèche, France
Unheimlichkeit

2025 Galerie Agapé, Aubenas, France
Metamorphosis

Selections & Festivals

2026 Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece — shortlisted
Todtnauberg

2025 Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece — shortlisted
Eschaton

Curatorial

2024 - Founder and editor, Les Cahiers du Tanargue

Publications

2018 Figures d'un monde en sursis, L'Harmattan, Paris
Texts by Claude Molzino

Press (selection)

2026 FK Magazine — Todtnauberg

2026 L'Œil de la Photographie — Resonances

2025 L'Œil de la Photographie — Todtnauberg

2025 Kamira Institute — Todtnauberg

2024 L'Œil de la Photographie — Metamorphosis

Collaborations

2018– Claude Molzino, philosopher — ongoing dialogue and texts

Editions

Piezography carbon inks on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper. Limited editions (9 or 15), signed and numbered. ArtTrust certified. Browse editions →

Statement

History and experience are not inherited as narrative; they are transmitted as structure.

The work moves across landscapes, archives, and inherited forms — four long-form series forming a constellation around Eschaton, a world under the shadow of its own end. Todtnauberg confronts what grew up with me in the Black Forest: a grandfather, a philosopher, a silence Celan did not break. Unheimlichkeit registers a present saturated with its own disappearance. Resonances listens for what the land keeps without saying.

Each series stands alone. Together, they form a single sustained question: what does Europe carry forward without speaking?

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Press & Contact

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