Claas Gutsche Biography

Taking its subject matter from where suburbia meets the natural landscape, Claas Gutsche’s work is concerned with the human living space as an alien, unsafe space, in which what is behind the curtain of an ideal world can sometimes be more threatening than the world outside.

Common to Gutsche’s work is an interest in narration and the subversive view of beauty in landscape, as well as an unease and uncertainty about the space or place. Gutsche is interested in the contradiction between the beauty of the surroundings and the actuality of its past, a space where the viewer can feel a tension, a darkness just below the surface.

Claas Gutsche graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2009 with an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, and has exhibited in London, Brighton, Newcastle, Berlin and Brussels. He has won numerous awards, including the Financial Times Fine Art Award, and the British Institution Prize from the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Claas Gutsche lives and works in Berlin.