Tag: catharsis

THE LETTING GO | FÜRTH

September 30, 2015 by nataschastellmach

October 10 – November 8, 2015 Kunst Galerie Fürth, Germany | curated by Rebecca Suttner | The Letting Go is part of the group exhibition Skin Stories – Tattoo & Kunst in association with net:works festival. Featuring works by artists Timm Ulrichs, Wim Delvoye, et al, Skin Stories – Tattoo & Kunst goes beyond the pop cultural phenomenon of tattoos to contextualise conceptual body art within the age of digital and social media. The exhibition and events programme is part […]

Categories: news • Tags: bloodline tattoo, catharsis, Kunst Galerie Fürth, mindfulness, performance, photography, The Letting Go, vulnerability

THE LETTING GO | HAMBURG

June 17, 2015 by nataschastellmach

July 25 + 26, 2015. Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe Hamburg. Performances as part of the exhibition ‘Tattoo’. Project information: ENGLISH / DEUTSCH. PRESS TV – Hamburg 1 | Diese Tattoos verschwinden von selbst Hamburger Abendblatt | Wenn das Museum zur Tätowierstube wird – Review by Heinrich Oehmsen Eingeschrieben mit Blut. Künstlerin Natascha Stellmach tätowiert Sehnsüchte und Ängste | MK&G Pressetext Edit

Categories: news • Tags: bloodline tattoo, catharsis, inkless tattoo, mindfulness, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, performance, photography, The Letting Go, vulnerability

#TABS – ARTIST BOOKS | BERLIN

January 6, 2015 by nataschastellmach

January 9 – February 27, 2015. Lage Egal Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin | Curated by Pierre Granoux. A group exhibition celebrating the artist book, with over 200 participating artists and publishers. Stellmach’s artist book, The Book of Back explores a dark family story told across Germany and Australia, underpinned by the poetic idea of Zerissenheit – being torn between lands, between worlds, or simply being torn. The work was created at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin where Stellmach was Australia Council […]

Categories: news • Tags: artist book, Australia Council for the Arts, catharsis, childhood, group exhibition, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Lage Egal Raum für Aktuelle Kunst, mixed media, photography, studio residency, The Book of Back, vulnerability

UNSEEN 2014 | AMSTERDAM

September 9, 2014 by nataschastellmach

September 18 – 21, 2014. Wagner+Partner, Booth 32, Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam | with artist Miklos Gaál. Known for creating socially critical works that blur the boundaries of the personal, historical and imaginary – each of the new works in Stellmach’s ongoing series, I Don’t Have a Gun begins with a single film frame, scanned from the artist’s 1970’s Super-8 home movies inclusive of its black edges. Following detailed intervention by Stellmach, the result becomes a rousing exploration of self-image, […]

Categories: news • Tags: 2 person exhibition, bloodline tattoos, catharsis, empowerment, I Don't Have a Gun, photography, taboo, The Letting Go, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner

THE LETTING GO | BERLIN

August 31, 2014 by nataschastellmach

September 6 – 7, 2014. Berlin Festival Art Village | curated by Jan Kage. Installation + Performances: 12hrs/day – 13:30 to 01:30 – all sessions booked out. See The Letting Go for more information in English and German, including a short film.

Categories: news • Tags: Berlin Festival, bloodline tattoo, catharsis, installation, Jan Kage, mindfulness, performance, photography, solo exhibition, The Letting Go, vulnerability

SCHEITERN – so many ways to fail | BERLIN

October 15, 2013 by nataschastellmach

November 22, 2013 – January 18, 2014. Wagner + Partner Berlin | This group exhibition explores notions of ‘failure’ beyond the quintessential fact and questions whether in art it is even possible to fail? In Stellmach’s project The Letting Go, intimate, personal ‘failings’ become the literal foundation for self-awareness and transformation. See THE LETTING GO for more information. Artists: Anna + Bernhard Blume • Marcel Broodthaers • Miklos Gaál • Claas Gutsche • Eckart Hahn • Mike Kelley • Lars Ramberg […]

Categories: news • Tags: Berlin, bloodline tattoo, catharsis, failure, group exhibition, inkless tattoo, Marcel Broodthaers, Mike Kelley, photography, Scheitern, The Letting Go, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner

COMPLETE BURNING AWAY – The ashes of Kurt Cobain | BENDIGO

September 14, 2013 by nataschastellmach

September 14 – October 20, 2013. Latrobe University Visual Arts Centre Bendigo, Australia. Opened by Kelly Gellatly, Director Ian Potter Museum of Art Melbourne. [Featuring an encore performance of Romitelli’s Trash TV Trance by Mauricio Carrasco] In 2008, Natascha Stellmach sent out an international call, inviting six volunteers to join her in smoking the ashes of the dead rock star, Kurt Cobain, in a private, undocumented ritual. Immediately hype, hysteria and intrigue spread across 58 countries, while the online world erupted […]

Categories: news • Tags: Bendigo, catharsis, installation, Kelly Gellatly, Kurt Cobain, Latrobe University Visual Arts Centre, Mauricio Carrasco, mixed media, photography, solo exhibition, unique, video, vulnerability

I DON’T HAVE A GUN | BERLIN

June 15, 2013 by nataschastellmach

June 7 – August 31, 2013 (exhibition extended) Wagner + Partner Berlin. Supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council | The Aussie-German art darling’s provocative show blends fact with fiction, confronting the contemporary concept of burnout while celebrating renewal. Exberliner, 2013 This solo exhibition and performances is informed by an experience of burnout in the artists’ own life. Stellmach does not dwell on the negative aspects of the syndrome – instead her insights are evocative and hilarious and […]

Categories: news • Tags: alter ego, Australia Council for the Arts, bloodline tattoo, burnout, catharsis, inkless tattoo, installation, performance, photography, solo exhibition, unique, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner

COCK & BULL STORIES | BERLIN

January 10, 2013 by nataschastellmach

January 11 – March 3, 2013. Kit Schulte Contemporary Art Berlin | Curated by Kit Schulte & Agnes Hoffmann. This group exhibition celebrates the art of fantastic and delusional ideas. Natascha Stellmach hit the headlines in 2008 when she invited the public to join her in smoking the ashes of Kurt Cobain, which resulted in a massive media response. This evoked a dramatic reaction from the public (what we’d now call a ‘shit storm’), to the extent of sending the […]

Categories: news • Tags: Berlin, catharsis, group exhibition, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Kurt Cobain, vulnerability

DOCUMENTA(13) | KASSEL

August 2, 2012 by nataschastellmach

Aug 3, 2012. dOCUMENTA(13), Building 42, Hauptbahnhof Kassel | Curated by Critical Art Ensemble. PERFORMANCE – pen tattoos + installation (works from Complete Burning Away) Informed by the controversy around her major project with the ashes of Kurt Cobain, the “tattooed” statements critique the role of the artist and contemporary art in society. Visitors were invited to choose one of the countless responses to Stellmach’s project, but only from a pool of responses which debated “art”. This was then written […]

Categories: news • Tags: catharsis, Documenta, Kurt Cobain, pen tattoo, performance, photography, vulnerability

AGENT PROVOCATEUR | BERLIN

July 5, 2012 by nataschastellmach

July 6, 2012 from 19:00 | Wagner + Partner Berlin. PERFORMANCE – pen tattoos + installation (from Complete Burning Away) Informed by the controversy around her major project with the ashes of Kurt Cobain, the “tattooed” statements critique the role of the artist and contemporary art in society. Visitors were invited to choose one of the countless responses to Stellmach’s project, but only from a pool of responses which debated “art”. This was then written onto their skin by the […]

Categories: news • Tags: Berlin, catharsis, Kunst Kontakter, Kurt Cobain, Kylie Minogue, pen tattoo, performance, photography, Wagner+Partner

Natascha Stellmach, 2012, Annica & Simon wearing Wiseblood, Lisbon, ink on photo rag, 40 x 60cm

AGENT PROVOCATEUR | MELBOURNE

March 30, 2012 by nataschastellmach

PERFORMANCE – photography, pen tattoos, slide show, photo studio (works from Complete Burning Away) | March 30, 2012 | Anna Pappas Gallery Melbourne

Categories: news • Tags: Anna Pappas Gallery, catharsis, Kurt Cobain, Melbourne, pen tattoo, performance, photography

Natascha wearing GibsonGeek93, USA, 2012, ink on photo rag, 40 x 60cm

PULSE | MIAMI

December 1, 2011 by nataschastellmach

SOLO PRESENTATION & PERFORMANCES – photography, works-on-paper, pen tattoos, photo studio (works from Complete Burning Away) | December 1 – 4, 2011 | Wagner + Partner, Booth Impulse 1–105

Categories: news • Tags: art fair, catharsis, Kurt Cobain, Miami, pen tattoo, performance, photography, solo exhibition, unique, Wagner+Partner, works on paper

PARADISE … A HELL OF A PLACE | MELBOURNE

February 4, 2011 by nataschastellmach

GROUP EXHIBITION: Installation, photography, artist book, mixed media | February 4 – March 9, 2011 | Anna Pappas Gallery Melbourne

Categories: news • Tags: Anna Pappas Gallery, artist book, catharsis, childhood, Damian Smith, group exhibition, installation, Melbourne, mixed media, photography, unique, vulnerability

Media Headlines (detail) featured in artist book Media Whore, 2010

COMPLETE BURNING AWAY | PERTH

November 6, 2010 by nataschastellmach

SOLO EXHIBITION – installation, 1 & 4-channel videos, artist books, works on paper, mixed media | November 6 – December 19, 2010 | Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Australia

Categories: news • Tags: artist book, catharsis, mixed media, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, solo exhibition, unique, video, vulnerability, wall text, works on paper

COME LIVE IN MY HEAD | BERLIN

September 3, 2010 by nataschastellmach

SOLO EXHIBITION – installation, photography, mixed media | September 3 – October 23, 2010 | Wagner + Partner Berlin in association with Kunst & Wein

Categories: news • Tags: Berlin, catharsis, installation, mixed media, photography, solo exhibition, Sophie Calle, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner

Natascha Stellmach, Blood No. 9, 2006–09, archival ink on photo rag, 42 x 59 cm

IDENTITÄT – BIOGRAFIE | VIENNA

May 4, 2010 by nataschastellmach

MAJOR INSTALLATION & BOOK LAUNCH as part of GROUP EXHIBITION – video, photography, mixed media (works from secret & The Book of Back), publication | May 4 – June 2, 2010 | Fotogalerie Wien Austria

Categories: news • Tags: Amy Barrett-Lennard, Arts Victoria, catharsis, Celina Lunsford, childhood, Fotogalerie Wien, group exhibition, identity, installation, It is Black in Here, photography, Sophie Calle, The Book of Back, video, vulnerability