Beate Gütschow

Gütschow ( born August 11, 1970 in Mainz) is a contemporary German artist. She lives and works in Cologne and Berlin.

Life and work

Gütschow studied from 1993 to 2000 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg and in 1998 at the Art Academy in Oslo. She taught as a visiting professor from 2009 to 2010 at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Since 2011 she is a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

In their work Gütschow examines the difference between photographic representation and reality. It highlights also the extent to which the viewer's perception is influenced by already existing image knowledge.

LS series

In her first series, "LS" (short for Landscape), Gütschow reconstructed landscapes painting of the 17th and 18th centuries with the means of photography. On the computer they assembled from many fragments photos that follow the design principles of the ideal landscape.

S series

The "S" (short for city) described recent work group consists of large-format black-and- white photos, which are also composed of many individual images. Different architectures and countries are united in an image. These works make reference to the documentary photography, however, continued their photographic fiction meet.

I Series

In your latest series "I" ( abbreviation for interior ) to Gütschow is critically with the visual culture of advertising photography by mundane objects - arranged in her studio to surreal scenarios - a car battery, a health chair, an overhead projector.

Honors and Awards

Gütschow won awards including the " ars viva prize" of the Cultural Committee of German Business ( 2006), the Otto - Dix- Price / IBM Art Award New Media, Gera (2001 ) and the Art Prize of the city of Nordhorn ( 2001). 2001 Gütschow was also a fellow at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles.

Film

Gütschow was one of the protagonists of the documentary " In Berlin " (2009) by Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari.

Solo exhibitions (selection )

• 2011 Photo Galle Riet, Oslo
• 2011 St Paul St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
• 2010 Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich
• 2010 Producers Gallery, Hamburg
• 2009 Kunsthalle in the Lipsius Building, Dresden State Art Collections
• 2009 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
• 2008 Kunsthalle Nürnberg
• 2008 Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
• 2007 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
• 2007 ArtSway, Hampshire, UK
• 2005 producers Gallery, Hamburg
• 2004 Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich
• 2004 Danziger Projects, New York

Exhibitions ( selection)

• 2013 false fakes, Centre de la photographie Genève, Geneva
• 2013 photograph The future, NCCA - National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
• 2013 CONCRETE - photography and architecture, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich
• 2012 Seduced by Art: Photography Past & Present, National Gallery (London ), London
• 2012 After Photoshop - Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• 2012 Painting in Photography - strategies of appropriation, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
• 2012 An Orchestrated Vision, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
• 2011 Belvedere, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck Remagen
• 2011 Runge Today: Constructed sensation - Observable Time, Kunsthaus Hamburg
• 2010 Realism - The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthal Rotterdam
• 2010 Felicità, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel
• 2010 Project Europe: Imagining the (Im) possible, The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
• 2010 Realism - The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthalle Emden
• 2009 Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence
• 2009 Veto - Contemporary Positions in German photography, House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
• 2008 Recent European Landscape, Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
• 2008 REAL - photographs from the collection of DZ BANK, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
• 2008 Places of comprometidos: Topografía y Actualidad, Fundación ICO, Photo España 2008, Madrid
• 2007 World Receiver - 10 years Galerie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Hamburg
• 2007 New Forest Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice
• 2007 Made in Germany - Contemporary Art from Germany, Sprengel Museum / Kunstverein Hannover / Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
• 2007 Reality Bites - art after the fall of the Wall, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, MO
• 2006 ars viva 06/ 07 - story / narration, Galerie Neue Meister / octagon, Dresden State Art Collections
• 2005 Between reality and image: German positions in contemporary photography, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
• 2005 East of Arcadia, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Works in public collections

Work of Gütschow are among others the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern manner in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, in the Dresden State Art Collections and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.