Beate Gütschow is a contemporary German artist who lives and works in Cologne and Berlin. She studied art at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg from 1993 to 2000 and at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 1997. Her work explores the relationship between photographic representation and reality, investigating how visual perception is informed by prior knowledge of images. Gütschow is known for several series: 'LS' (Landschaft), which reconstructs 17th- and 18th-century landscape paintings using digital photomontage; 'S' (Stadt), which combines architectural structures into large black-and-white photographs; and 'I' (Interior), which creates surrealistic scenes from mundane objects. She has served as a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne since 2011.[1,2]
