Matthias Koch studied Architecture and Fine Arts with
Professor Heinrich Riebeseh at the University of Hannover and Art with Photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,
Germany where he was in the master class of Professor Bernd Becher graduating with Honours. From 1998 - 2000 he was lecturer in the faculty of Fine Arts at the Fachhochschule in Hannover and from
2006 - 2008 at the University Niederrhein in Krefeld, Germany.