| 1991 | Completion secondary school - Gymnasium Himmelsthür, Germany | |
| 1991-1992 | Community Service in individual day-care for physically handicapped | |
| 1992-1995 | Apprenticeship as a carpenter in Hildesheim, Germany | |
| 1995-2000 | Studies at the University of Art Berlin, Faculty of Visual Communication and Design | |
| 1997 | Studies at Central St.Martins, London, Faculty of Graphics and Experimental Film | |
| seit 1998 | Foundation of Superschool artists’ collective. Realisation of various performative and new media-based projects | |
| 2005-2008 | Lecturer for contemporary art / interventional practice at the University of Art, Berlin | |
| seit 2006 | Foundation of the artist-run art association KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V. and exhibition space Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum | |
| seit 2000 | Artistic projects in the field of interventional, conceptional practice and experiemtal film in Europe, Asia, North America | |
| 2006-2011 | Curatorial practise and co-direction of Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum | |
| seit 2010 | Founder of Wasteland Twinning Network, a platform for cross-disciplinary research and artistic practice | |
| seit 2012 | Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Arts and Urbanistics (ZKU) in Berlin, Mitte | |
| 2011-2013 | Jury Participations at the BBK studio-program, Berlin Senat project fund and Scandinavian Embassies ‘Grosses Treffen’ | |
| 2012-2013 | Visiting Professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel | |
| 2013-2014 | Projects and Curatorial Board of ‘Archipel Invest’ as part of Urbane Labore in the Recklingenhausen district | |
Matthias Einhof was born in Hildesheim (1972) and lives in Berlin. After training as a cabinetmaker, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and Central St. Martins College in London. As an artist, composer and performer, he is interested in the intersection of art, popular media and everyday life. He utilizes photography, video and performance to distill media culture into abstract artifacts. In public performances, which assume the guise of media spectacles, Einhoff triggers atypical relationships between community groups. Einhoff works collaboratively and individually.
He is a founding member of the art group, Superschool, developing such project as Kongress des Halbwissens, Superschool TV and Das Gesichtsbuch, which were performed at the Maxim Gorki Theater (2006–2010), Neue Berliner Kunstverein (2012) and Caroussell du Louvre (2002). A retrospective of Superschool videos was held at the Film Festival Winterthur (2007). He has staged public projects in Lahore, Pakistan, Harburger Kunstverein, Hamburg and the Jaaga Creative Common Ground, India. His videos have been screened at various festivals including the Viper, Emaf and Cracow Festival.
Einhoff has also realized musical projects including Ragazzi, Commercial Breakup and Group of People with the music labels Buback, Staatsakt, Parfüm (Kompakt) and Ladomat.
In past years, he has taught at the Berlin University of the Arts and Beaconhouse College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan and is currently lecturing as a Visiting Professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
In 2010, Einhoff was a recipient of the Berlin Senate artist grant.
He is a co-founder of KUNSTrePUBLIK in which he has worked since 2006 as curator, artist, researcher and activist at Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum and in other contexts, including Werkleitz Festival (Halle/Saale, 2010), id Barri (Barcelona, 2009), Vasl Arts (Pakistan, 2008) and the 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art (2008).
In 2010 he co-founded Wasteland Twinning Network – a platform for cross-disciplinary research and artistic practise.
In 2012 he’s co-founded the Centre for Arts and Urbanistics in Berlin, which he is co-directing with his colleagues from KUNSTrePUBLIK.
Honors and Residencies
| 2012 | Catalogue-und Website Grant Berlin Senat | |
| 2011 | Research Grant from Intercult, Stockholm, Schweden | |
| 2011 | Travel Grant from Goethe Institute (Singapore; Jakarta, Indonesia; Saigon, Vietnam) | |
| 2009 | Individual Working Grant, Bildende Kunst from Berlin Senate | |
| 2009 | Travel Grant from Goethe Institute for Bangalore, India | |
| 2009 | Project Grant European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam(with KUNSTrePUBLIK) | |
| 2009 | Project Grant from Hauptstadtkulturfonds | |
| 2008 | Project Grant from the Berlin Senate (with Superschool) | |
| 2008 | Project Grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds | |
| 2008 | Travel Grant from Goethe-Institut for Cairo, Egypt. Lahore und Karachi, Pakistan | |
| 2007 | Retrospective Superschool at the Filmfestival Winterthur | |
| 2007 | Residence Grant, Anne-Marie Schimmel Haus, Lahore, Pakistan | |
| 2007 | Project Grant Bipolar, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, (with KUNSTrePUBLIK) | |