Biography
Burcu Guettler weaves her Photographs using literally time and light as raw materials. In her long time exposures, she walks in the scene, painting with light, whereas the camera is used as a recording device of her interaction with the scene. Human being, nature and city, drawing again and again a triangle causing a beautiful tension. What are the people of the 21st century longing for? A more natural life? More romantism? More control over the nature? Apocalypse? What do we miss?
She is a modern romantic, experimenting with complicated techniques, creating a unique visual language on the borderlines of photography. Her body of work combines the masterworks of Caspar David Friedrich, William Turner, the constructivists like Malewitsch and surrealists to the postmodern, drawing a line along the art history. The conceptual, but still subjective approach of the artist gives the observer the freedom to interpret, contribute with own ideas and feelings and to think further.
Burcu Guettler has a masters degree in Photography and Cinema from the University of Applied Arts Dortmund, Germany, and having a second masters degree from Bielefeld University in Photography and Media.
She had prices in numerous competitions among which being the finalist of the wellknown international Adobe Design Achievement Awards, been given the second place on the photography competition of the Ministry of Domestic Affairs Germany, and selection as a juried winner of the Artslant Showcase, San Francisco U.S.A.. She had won in 2011 the Matching Funds Scholarship for excellent academic achievements.
Her work has been shown in museums and galleries in Germany and USA, and is in private collections especially in USA.
She lives and works in Germany.
