Robert Koch Gallery

07/05/2026

Following a highly successful presentation at the AIPAD art fair in New York, we were thrilled by the exceptionally strong response to Michael Wolf’s “Paris Rooftops Box Set”.

Having established himself through his distinctive visual language in Hong Kong, Wolf later set up his second home in Paris. Confronted with Haussmannian order and the weight of the city’s photographic tradition, he sought a new vantage point. The result was “Paris Rooftops”: a pivotal body of work revealing a hidden, geometric poetry above the boulevards. Following in the tradition of Atget, whom Berenice Abbott described as weaving a “tapestry of French civilization”, Michael uncovered an abstract vocabulary of zinc roofs, chimneys and stone walls. Compressed into painterly layers, these compositions recall Fernand Léger’s Les Toits de Paris and Morandi’s still lifes, transforming functional structures into lyrical forms.

Contact us for more information while these portfolios are still available.

Michael Wolf
Paris Rooftops Box Set (4, 3, 8, 11, 1, and 2 pictured)
2014/2025
12 Pigment Prints on Hahnemühle PhotoRag Bright White Edition of 12 + 3 APs
Signed and stamped verso
Each 15 1/16 x 21 1/16 in. image on 16 9/16 x 22 5/8 in. sheet Housed in a custom grey-linen box

25/04/2026

In Conversation: Edward Burtynsky. Join us today, Saturday, April 25, at 2 PM at Booth B6 in the Park Avenue Armory, NYC, for The Photography Fair presented by AIPAD.

The artist will discuss his ongoing work documenting humanity’s impact on the landscape.

24/04/2026

Visit us at the Photography Show 2026, presented by AIPAD. We are at booth B6 featuring Matt Black, Edward Burtynsky, Henri Cartier-Bresson, František Drtikol, Robert Frank, Jaromír Funke, György Kepes, Károly Kismányoky, Helen Levitt, Mimi Plumb, Man Ray, Charles Marville, Jaroslav Rössler, Carleton E. Watkins, Michael Wolf, and others.

Gallery artist Edward Burtynsky will also be in conversation at our booth on Saturday, April 25th, from 2-3pm. We look forward to seeing you. 

The Photograhy Show
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
Through April 26th

24/02/2026

The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to share news of the first museum survey dedicated to gallery artist Mimi Plumb’s work, “Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb”. With more than one hundred photographs created between 1972 and 2025, it is currently on view at the High Museum of Art through May 10th. The exhibition will then travel to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

Spanning five decades of Plumb’s work, the photographs in the exhibition are largely made in California and across the American West. Her images explore how people inhabit and are shaped by changing landscapes, both social and environmental, offering a quiet but perceptive view of the region over time.

30/01/2026

14/01/2026

Join us this Saturday, January 17, from 12 to 3 pm for a reception with the artist Debra Bloomfield for “Changing Seas”, a series of richly detailed and expansive photographs exploring the North Atlantic coastline. On view January 15 through February 28, 2026 at the Robert Koch Gallery.

Water covers more than seventy percent of the Earth’s surface and makes up a good proportion of our own bodies. It shapes climate, sustains life, and has always drawn humans in with its openness and mystery. Bloomfield’s images capture the ocean’s raw power and quiet presence, beginning with a moment of recognition when the landscape reveals something new to her.

In 2015, while teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute, Bloomfield developed the course Environmental Landscape Photography to explore how human actions reshape the earth and, in turn, ourselves. Later in her career, while working on her Wildernessseries, she studied the work of environmental writers such as Rachel Carson, Margaret and Adolph Murie, Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, and Edward Abbey, which provided inspiration for the direction of her work going forward. Changing Seas continues Bloomfield’s deep interest and exploration of the environmental landscape. “Changing Seas” project.

05/12/2025

The Yamamoto Masao exhibition is now on view through January 31st. Join us tonight for the opening reception from 5:30-7:30.

08/10/2025

The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to announce that gallery artist Matt Black has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, widely known as the “genius grant.” The award recognizes his extraordinary body of work chronicling America’s social and environmental dilemmas.

The Fellowship honors accomplished individuals who have demonstrated exceptional originality and dedication in their creative pursuits, with the potential for continued outstanding self-directed work. Recipients are selected through an anonymous nomination and review process by leaders in their respective fields.

Matt Black’s photography is distinguished by its profound depth, singular vision, and unwavering commitment to socially and ecologically urgent subject matter. His deeply rooted, cohesive projects address complex issues with empathy and clarity, making him not only a remarkable artist and image-maker but also an essential voice in the ongoing dialogue around environmental and social justice.

It has been the gallery’s privilege to represent Matt Black and share his work with wider audiences through exhibitions and art fairs. His photography, both timely and timeless, possesses the same resonance and moral urgency as that of the great social documentary photographers of the Depression era, while remaining wholly contemporary and uniquely his own.

Read more on news section of our website, link in bio.

24/09/2025

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky was named #2 on The Independent’s 2025 Climate 100 List for his impactful photographic work highlighting humanity’s environmental impact. This list honors environmental leaders whose work provides critical insights into the climate crisis. Burtynsky’s placement underscores the power of visual art in communicating complex environmental messages.

Burtynsky’s work was the subject of the award-winning documentary trilogy “Manufactured Landscapes” (dir. Jennifer Baichwal, 2006), “Watermark” (dir. Baichwal and Burtynsky, 2013), and “ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch” (dir. Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Burtynsky, 2018).

Burtynsky’s works are held in the collections of over eighty museums worldwide, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim, New York; Tate, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the National Gallery of Canada, among other notable international institutions. Major institutional exhibitions include “The Great Acceleration” (2025), International Center of Photography, New York; “BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction” (2024), premiered at Saatchi Gallery, London, before touring to M9, Mestre, Italy; “Anthropocene” (2018), Art Gallery of Ontario and National Gallery of Canada (international tour); “Water” (2013), New Orleans Museum of Art and Contemporary Art Center, Louisiana (international tour); “Oil” (2009), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (five-year international tour); “China” (2005–2008, international tour); “Manufactured Landscapes” (2003–2005), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (toured to Art Gallery of Ontario and Brooklyn Museum); and “Breaking Ground” (1988–1992), produced by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (international tour).

12/09/2025

Join us for the Opening Reception of EDWARD BURTYNSKY: TRANSFORMATION this Saturday, September 13, from 2 to 4 pm at Robert Koch Gallery, 49 Geary Street, 5th Floor.

Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to announce Edward Burtynsky: Transformation, on view Sept. 13 - Nov. 29, 2025, featuring monumental color photographs that examine landscapes altered by resource extraction, manufacturing, rapid development, and the ecological changes that follow. These works continue Burtynsky’s ongoing exploration of how human intervention has reshaped natural environments worldwide, revealing both their vulnerability and magnificence.The exhibition embodies Burtynsky’s decades-long pursuit of capturing the profound and often permanent changes human industry brings to the earth’s surface.

Edward Burtynsky: Transformation opens concurrent to The Great Acceleration, Burtynsky’s exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York, presently on view through September 28, 2025. Timed to coincide with Climate Week NYC in September 2025, this landmark presentation, curated by David Campany, marks Burtynsky’s first major institutional exhibition in New York City in over twenty years. It is accompanied by a monograph by the ICP / Steidl.

Each project remains intrinsically linked, showing how local environmental changes reflect broader global patterns, documenting the visible effects on the land brought on by demographic expansion, water consumption, carbon emissions, and mineral extraction. “At such a critical moment in time, I hope this work sparks meaningful dialogue about our relationship with the planet and brings more people to this awareness,” reflects Burtynsky on his mission to document our changing world.

25/08/2025

"Narrative Implied" is on view through this Wednesday, August 27. The exhibition brings together work from eleven artists whose photographs explore narrative concepts, ranging from clearly defined stories to more subtle and indirect approaches.

Characterized by what they reveal and what they hold back, the photographs invite interpretation and draw viewers into a realm of mystery and uncertainty.

Featuring work by Holly Andres, Trent Davis Bailey, Matt Black, Chris Dorley-Brown, Nadav Kander, Josef Koudelka, Mimi Plumb, Amy Stein, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb, and Michael Wolf.