He is interested in aesthetics as politics of forms and practices that contribute to the restoration of broken worldviews. Matthias has held fellowship appointments at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as a Fulbright scholar; at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies with Kone Foundation; at University of Bayreuth’s Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence; and at the Waseda University in Tokyo. His works include an edited book on Lumumba in the Arts (Leuven University Press) which reached a list of the top-100 "books to escape the news" (LitHub) and the award winning films Under The White Mask (2020), Palimpsest of the Africa Museum (2019), Lobi Kuna (2018), Diorama (2018) and Jerusalem, the Adulterous Wife (2008) among others.