Beate Gütschow

Born in 1970 in Mainz, Professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Beate Gütschow defines her photographic artwork as rather a conceptual approach, assuming her role as image builder as much as photographer.

With the aid of computer software such as Photoshop, she works like traditional painters; conceiving of an image before realising it bit by bit through patiently stored fragments of photographs. She thus explores the relationship between reality and photographic representations by questioning how our visual perception may be influenced through prior knowledge of other images.

Her work has been exhibited at the Modern Art Museum of San Francisco, and at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Columbia.