THE LETTING GO | 2026, Limited Edition 55
Natascha Stellmach, cover detail.
The Letting Go: wonder in our wounds
352 p., 24 x 16,5cm., English (& some German).
Texts by: Sandra Hüller, Dr Matthew McArdle, Kelly Gelatly, Natascha Stellmach & participants.
Soft cover, Swiss binding, off-set printed in Bönen, Germany.
Published June 2026 by Verlag Kettler. ISBN: 978-3-98741-227-1
LIMITED EDITION (55):
numbered, signed, sewn into and includes an: archival A5 signed print, embroidered badge + satin tote bag.
The Letting Go limited edition: Signed, numbered & sewn-into book; signed and numbered archival A5 print; embroidered badge and satin tote bag, both designed by the artist.
Limited Edition of 55: signed, numbered, sewn into, includes ‘Self Portrait (Yesterday)’ fine art print (Ed. 55)
Limited Edition sewing intervention by the artist: back of edition page, each is unique
Detail of artist designed satin tote bag + embroidered badge
p162-163 (of 352) of The Letting Go book
Acknowledgements page of The Letting Go book
ABOUT THE LETTING GO
FLY | 2012, unique piece
Artist Book “Fly”, 300 pages, mixed media (hand-bound book with 1450-word erotic short story set between a hand-coloured 1970s novel), details and installation views 2012.
Installation view, “Fly”, artist book, satin gloves, remodelled chair, dimensions variable, at Wagner+Partner Berlin, 2012
ABOUT FLY
BLACK COCKATOO | 2011, unique piece
Black Cockatoo, 2011, artist book, 19 x 13 x 5 cm, unique piece
ABOUT BLACK COCKATOO
BOOKS FROM COMPLETE BURNING AWAY | 2010, unique pieces
BOOK 1
Media Whore, 2010, hand-bound artist book, 440 pages, digital printing on paper, ribbon, faux leather, 16 x 13 x 6 cm
The artist book, Media Whore is bound in red faux leather and resembles a bible. It illustrates across 440 pages of ‘red-washed’ news articles how the media used Stellmach’s story and Cobain’s image to sell products.
mē’diə hōr Engl. n.
The 1960’s term ‘media whore’ originated during political campaigns and referred to newspapers who covered a candidate relational to their ad buy. Given the public’s derogatory use of the term against Stellmach, the fact that she refused all interviews and the project intentionally generated no income for the artist or gallery – this rich and ironic work questions who indeed the media whores are.
Media Whore pages (2 pages: Rolling Stone & Liberation – from 440 pages of collected media)
BOOK 2
“Rape Me” (detail), 2010, calf-leather hand-bound artist book: pen, pencil, texta, crayon on 300 pages (drawn on the published diaries of Kurt Cobain), 28 x 22 x 6cm, unique piece
The artist book, “Rape Me” highlights the public opinion regarding the smoking of Nirvana’s infamous leader. The book’s title is borrowed from Cobain’s 1991 song and is bound in white calf leather with 300 unique pages of transcribed comments that are re-interpreted by Stellmach’s students, friends and colleagues. Drawn in pen, paint and crayon on the whitewashed pages of Cobain’s posthumously published diaries, it reinforces the artist struggle between public and personal persona.
Installation view, “Rape Me” (artist book), PICA, Australia, 2010
“Rape Me” page (one of 300 pages)
ABOUT COMPLETE BURNING AWAY
THE BOOK OF BACK | 2007, Limited Edition 123
The Book of Back, 2007, offset printing on paper, thread, photograph, DVD, linen, faux grass, box, gloves, tote bag, boxed dimensions: 23 x 32 x 3.5 cm, limited ed. 123
The Book of Back, 2007, offset printing on paper, thread, photograph, DVD, limited ed. 49/123, p. 78–9
The Book of Back, 2007, offset printing on paper, thread, photograph, DVD with 3:30min film, linen, limited ed. 49/123
ABOUT THE BOOK OF BACK
