Beate Gütschow

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

Life and work

Gütschow studied art at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg from 1993 to 2000, and at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 1998.

She served as guest professor from 2009-2010 at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Since 2011 she is a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Gütschow’s work explores the relationship between photographic representation and reality. It also investigates how our visual perception is informed and influenced by prior knowledge of other images.

LS Series

In her first series, "LS" (an abbreviation of Landschaft, or landscape) Beate Gütschow uses photographic means to reconstruct depictions of landscape in 17th- and 18th-century paintings. With the aid of computer software, she montages scores of image fragments to create photographs that adhere to the compositional principles of the ideal landscape.

S Series

The body of work entitled "S" for Stadt (city) consists of large black-and-white photographs that are also composed of multiple images. Diverse architectural structures and geographical locations are combined within a single picture. These works clearly reference documentary photography, but at the same time contradict it with their photographic fictions.

I Series

In her newest series "I" (for Interior), Gütschow undertakes a critical investigation of advertising photography, composing mundane objects such as a car battery, ergonomic chair, and overhead projector into surrealistic scenes in her studio.

Gütschow has received numerous awards, including the ars viva prize awarded by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft (2006) and the Otto-Dix-Prize/IBM Art Award for New Media, Gera (2001). In 2001 she also held a fellowship at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.

Gütschow was one of the urbanites portrayed in the 2009 documentary In Berlin by Michael Ballhaus and Ciro Cappellari.

Solo exhibitions (select)

  • 2011 Fotogalleriet, Oslo
  • 2011 St Paul St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 2011 ph-projecs, Berlin
  • 2010 Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich
  • 2010 Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
  • 2009 Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  • 2009 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
  • 2008 Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
  • 2008 Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  • 2007 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
  • 2007 ArtSway, Hampshire, UK
  • 2005 Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
  • 2004 Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich
  • 2004 Danziger Projects, New York

Group exhibitions (selected)

  • 2013 fALSEfAKES, Centre de la photographie Genève, Geneva
  • 2013 Photographing 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 Malerei in Fotografie - Strategien der Aneignung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
  • 2012 Lost Places: Orte der Photographie, Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • 2012 An Orchestrated Vision, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
  • 2011 Belvedere, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
  • 2011 WERT/SACHE, Potsdamer Straße 87, Berlin
  • 2011 Runge Heute: Konstruierte Empfindung - Beobachtbare Zeit, Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 2011 Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)possible, Miriam and Ira D Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York
  • 2010 Felicità, Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt, Biel
  • 2010 Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)possible, The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
  • 2010 Realismus – Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle Emden
  • 2009 Manipulating Reality – How Images Redefine the World, CCCS - Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence
  • 2009 Veto – Zeitgenössische Positionen in der deutschen Fotografie, Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 2008 Recent European Landscape, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
  • 2008 REAL – Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ BANK, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
  • 2008 Lugares comprometidos: Topografía y actualidad, Fundación ICO, PHotoEspaña 2008, Madrid
  • 2007 Weltempfänger - 10 Jahre Galerie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • 2007 New Forest Pavilion, 52nd International Venice Biennale, Venice
  • 2007 Made in Germany – Aktuelle Kunst aus Deutschland, Sprengel Museum / Kunstverein Hannover / Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover
  • 2007 Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, MO
  • 2006 ars viva 06/07 – Erzählung / narration, Galerie Neue Meister / Oktagon, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  • 2005 Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Bild: Positionen deutscher Fotografie der Gegenwart, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
  • 2005 Jenseits von Arkadien, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Works in public collections (selected)

Works of Beate Gütschow can be found in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kunsthaus Zurich, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden and in the Staedel Museum, Frankfurt.

Literature und sources

  • Concrete – Photography und Architecture. Janser, Daniela, Thomas Seelig and Urs Stahel, ed. Zurich 2013, p. 157.
  • Seduced By Art: Photography Past and Present. The National Gallery ed. London 2012, pp. 184.
  • Lost Places – Orte in der Photographie. Kunsthalle Hamburg, ed. Bielefeld, 2012, S. 44- 49, 140-141.
  • Malerei in der Fotografie. Strategien der Aneignung.Städel Museum, ed. Heidelberg 2012.
  • BELVEDERE – Warum ist Landschaft schön? Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, ed. Bielefeld. 2011. (pp. 58–61)
  • Veto – Zeitgenössischen Positionen in der deutschen Fotografie. Deichtorhallen Hamburg, ed. Heidelberg Berlin, 2011. (pp. 68–75)
  • XL Photography 4. Deutsche Börse AG, ed. Ostfildern, 2011, (pp. 74–77)
  • WERT/SACHE. Gebbers, Anna-Catharina, ed. Exh. Cat. Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. Berlin, 2011. (pp. 15–16)
  • Felicità – Freude, Glück und Emotionen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Denaro, Dolores, ed. Exh. cat. CentrePasquArt. Biel, 2010, pp. 84–89.
  • Double Fantasy – Jan Jedlička, Michal Šeba, Beate Gütschow. Exh. cat. Galerie Rudolfinum. Prague, 2010, pp. 47–52, 96–109.
  • Realismus – Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit. Edited by Christiane Lange and Nils Ohlsen. Exh. cat. Kunsthalle Emden, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich. Emden and Munich, 2010.
  • Oliver-Smith, Kerry. Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)possible. Exh. cat. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida. Gainesville, 2010.
  • Unruh, Rainer. “Beate Gütschow: ‘I’.” Kunstforum International, no. 201 (March–April 2010), pp. 281–282.
  • Beate Gütschow: S. Exh. cat. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Ostfildern, 2009.
  • Gefter, Philip. Photography After Frank. New York, 2009.
  • Beate Gütschow LS / S. Edited by Lesley A. Martin. Exh. cat. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin. Cologne, 2008.
  • Lübbke-Tidow, Maren. "Aufführungen des Glücks und seiner Zerstörung." Kunst-Bulletin (March 2008), pp. 38–44.
  • Beate Gütschow LS / S. Edited by Lesley A. Martin. Exh. cat. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. New York, 2007.
  • Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, vol. 2. Edited by Harriet Bee and Robert Storr. Exh. cat. 52nd Biennale, Venice, 2007.
  • "Beate Gütschow." In Made in Germany. Edited by Martin Engler. Exh. cat. Kestnergesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Hanover. Ostfildern, 2007.
  • Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany / Kunst nach dem Mauerfall. Edited by Sabine Eckmann. Exh. cat. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO. Ostfildern, 2007.
  • Amelunxen, Hubertus von. “Die Erzählung vor dem Bild.” In ars viva 2006/2007: Erzählung/Narration, Galerie Neue Meister. Exh. cat. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2006, pp. 66–96.
  • Bischoff, Ulrich. “Gestaltete Landschaften.” In ars viva 2006/2007: Erzählung/Narration, Galerie Neue Meister. Exh. cat. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2006, pp. 97–106.
  • Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Bild: Positionen deutscher Fotografie der Gegenwart. Edited by Rei Masuda et al. Exh. cat. The National Museum of Modern Art. Tokyo, 2005.
  • Gefter, Philip. "The Picnic That Never Was." The New York Times, November 21, 2004, p. 34.
  • Gebbers, Anna-Catharina. "Beate Gütschow." Artist Kunstmagazin, Nr. 51 (2002), pp. 4–7.
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