Natascha during VOYAGE – Part I, photo by Joachim Rissmann
Natascha Stellmach’s 30-year interdisciplinary practice explores the transformation of fears, vulnerabilities and taboos. Weaving together image, text, and performance, the work draws on Stellmach’s background in therapy—unfolding through the body, as installations, and in artist books. Research, participation, and collaboration are central to the process.
Questions about questions and like all good art, to which there are no answers.
Berliner Morgenpost, Germany, Alan Posener, translated excerpt
With works held in international collections, Stellmach has exhibited at Documenta Kassel, MACBA Barcelona, MAK Vienna, PICA Perth, and ACP Sydney. Her practice has received support from Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, Australia Council, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Arts Victoria, Melbourne University, Sidney Myer Fund, NAVA, Sir Edmund Herring and Goethe-Institut, among others. Publicly funded residencies include Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Cité des Arts (Paris), and Goethe-Institut/Sana Sanaa (Nairobi).
There is poetry here. There is razor sharp commentary here. These works expand and contract and will not be forgotten easily.
Artrage, Marcus Canning
Stellmach holds an MFA (Interdisciplinary Practice) from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, a Bachelor of Applied Science (OT) from Latrobe University, and has studied Applied Photography at RMIT. From 2007, until their closure in 2020, she was represented in Berlin by Wagner+Partner.
Stellmach’s works are totally engrossing and the entire show is indeed kind of magic.
The Australian, Ted Snell
Since 2012, she has performed THE LETTING GO —a participatory practice she developed—across museums and private art spaces. A comprehensive publication of this work will be released by Kettler in June 2026. Previous books include, It is Black in Here (2010) and The Book of Back (2007). Since 2003, she has collaborated with Boris Eldagsen as BORIS+NATASCHA.
Born in Australia to German immigrants, she has lived between coastal Victoria and Berlin since 2004.
The artist’s antipodean warmth belies little of the darkness of her work.
DAZED UK, Natalie Holmes
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