Beate Grötsch is a photographer and film director. She started photography at the age of 15. Her first solo exhibition was in Vienna at the Künstlerhaus curated by Ursula Probst: "born to be a star". She studied film in Vienna at the directing class of Ruth Mader and did her Master's at the Goldsmiths University in London. She is working with the Jarvis Dooney Gallery in Berlin and has published fours photo books, two of them with the Krautin Verlag in Berlin. She is seeing the world through the lense of her film perspective and stories.
Series
photoSCHWEIZ 2023
10 images
"Burning down childhood finding light" is a journey through my childhood. When in 2022 my parents burned my childhood buildings with a excavator - all my childhood memories came back: the good ones and the dark ones. When I photographed the sucidide room of my uncle - extreme light came through the window - just before the buildings pulled down and in this moment I realised the light of underwater photographs I am working on since seven years in my hometown area is the searching of light for my childhood. I went for serval years to the same pond and photgraphed through all seasons the underwater light. Now it was time to combine this understanding.
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photoSCHWEIZ 2022
9 images
Are you one of these fishpeople? are analogue photos from 2001 and 2005 from New Zealand. I scanned them in 2021 and published a photo book. The photo book is about my personal journey through New Zealand. The Hahnenmühle fine art prints show my connection to nature.
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