Mail: contact@matthiasforster.com
Call: +41 76 332 96 96
Address: 8003 Zürich

Instagram: www.instagram.com/matthias__forster/
Web: www.matthiasforster.com

Matthias Forster is interested in experimenting and moving between the different fields of photography and fine art. His visual language is characterised by clarity, originality and playfulness in the use of light, form and colour. As a curious person, he does not follow a clear concept, but rather his instincts. In his work he is particularly interested in what human have made and built and the tension between chaos and order. With his keen observations, he visualises the everyday that is often overlooked.
After studying architecture, many years of experience in an established architecture firm and various travels, he completed his photography studies at the MAZ. Institut für Journalismus und Kommunikation in Lucerne in 2018. Since then he has been working as an architect and as a freelance artist with a focus on independent photographic projects. His work has been shown at exhibitions in Switzerland and Europe. An open and creative person, he welcomes any commission.

Member at NEAR
swiss association for contemporary photography
www.near.li

Metropolis Sunday - Hong Kong Series
Kerber Verlag

Happening Happenstance
emphemere & noice
Group Show and Book Launch

HOME'21
International Photography Prize
lensculture

2025 Belfast Photo Festival / PHOTO-BOOK WINNER
          HOMO FABER AND DIVINE PROVIDENCE
          June 5 - 30,  2025

2025 Rencontres d’Arles 2025 / LA GRANDE VITRINE
          "Metropolis Sunday -  Hong Kong Series"
           July 7 - 13, 2025

2024 Happening Happenstance HONCHO, KOGANEI, TOKYO
         "HOMO FABER AND DIVINE PROVIDENCE"
          emphemere & noicemag
          LAUNCH: AUGUST 24-25 / 12:00 - 17:00

2024  PHOTO ELYSEE. Nuit des images, near.x BYOB
           "HOMO FABER AND DIVINE PROVIDENCE"
           22.06.2024
           group exhibition, outdor beamer slideshow

2023  IPFO Olten
           "Metropolis Sunday"
            23.8.2023 bis 27.8.2023
           group exhibition

2023 "Exploration Senseland"
           Fotoforum Zug, Bahnhofstrasse 26,6300 Zug
           1.5.2023 bis 30.6.2023 06:00 - 23:00 Uhr
           solo exhibition

2022 6th Biennial of Fine Art&Documentary Photography
          METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Hong Kong Series
          FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona
          December 9, 2021-January 8, 2022
          group exhibition

2021 poivre-et-sel -Givisiez
          METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Hong Kong Series
          solo exhibition

2018 Swiss Scool of Journalism (MAZ)
          CHONGQING
          group exhibition

2017 «fragil»/BelleVue/Basel
          BREATHING SPACE OF HERMES
          group exhibition

2012 Inkognito¡ #2/kunstraum KEHLHOF/Stäfa
          ASIAN WALLS
          group exhibition

2025 Belfast Photo Festival
           HOMO FABER AND DIVINE PROVIDENCE
           PHOTO-BOOK WINNER

2022 Refocus Awards 
          Proffesional Section
          CHONGQING-Nominated
          METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Hong Kong Series
          Nominated

2022 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award
          Proffesional Section
          WIRED
          Honorable Mention in Digital Manipulation

2021 neutral density photography awards
          WIRED-untitled
          Honorable Mention in Fine Art

2021 Lensculture  HOME
          TRACES OF HOMELESS
          Finalist

2021 16th Pollux Awards
          METROPOLIS SUNDAY - Hongkong Series 

          honorable mention
          METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Bangkok Series
          honorable mention
          CHONGQING -Traces of Divergence
          honorable mention

2020 neutral density photography awards
          METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Hong Kong Series
          2nd place 
          silver star award in architecture

2020 Athens Photo Festival
          WIRED
          shortlisted

2019 Emergentes 2019 
          International Photography Award
          Encontros da Imagem
          TRACES OF DIVERGENCE-Chongqing Series
          finalist

2019 Athens Photo Festival
          TRACES OF DIVERGENCE-Hong Kong Series
          shortlisted

2019 Fribourg Photography Investigation 2019
          A EXPLORATION-Freiburgerland
          qualified for second round

2019 neutral density photography awards
          METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Bangkok Series
          honorable mention in special

2018 Lifeframer
          Faces of Life: Where Soul meets Body
          MUMBAI GENDER ROLE
          Editors Pick 

2023 Artdoc Magazine
          Conceptual Photography
          WIRED

2021 Noicemagazine
         METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Hong Kong Series

2021 Artdoc Magazine
          METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Hong Kong Series

2021 Thispapermag
          CHONGQING SERIES

2019 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards
          METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Bangkok Series
          featured in Competition Gallery

2019 LifeFramer
          SENSELAND

2019 LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2019
          TRACES OF DIVERGENCE-Chongqing
          featured in the Competition Gallery

2024 HOMO FABER AND DIVINE PROVIDENCE
2023 METROPOLIS MONDAY 
2024 METROPOLIS SUNDAY - Hongkong Series
2024 WIRES
2020 SUPRA SUBURBIA  - A Collection of Finds
2017 KRUNG THEP -  A Collection of Finds
2017 CHONGQING - Metropolis Sunday
2018 SENSELAND
2017 BREATHING SPACE OF HERMES
2014 MUMBAI - A Collection of Finds
2014 GRID
2013 METROPOLIS SUNDAY-Bangkok Series
2011 ASIAN WALLS
2014-2020 VARIOUS  COLLAGES

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