Beate Gutschow (b. 1970) studied at the School of Fine Arts, Hamburg and at the School of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway. Her tableaux landscapes are digital assemblages of details from her various archives of images of trees, fields, knolls, clouds, people and shadows. Beate Gutschow has been the recipient of numerous awards such as a Pixel Award, an Otto-Dix-Prize of New Media, and a Villa Aurora fellowship in Los Angeles. She lives and works in Berlin.