identity | NATASCHA STELLMACH

GOETHE INSTITUT RESIDENCY | NAIROBI

October 19, 2019 by nataschastellmach

October 24 – Christmas, 2019 Honoured to be nominated for the first Goethe Institute visual arts residency of its kind, in association with Sana Sanaa and Brush Tu Art Studio. This “twinning” artist residency is unique because of its focus on cultural exchange: one artist is selected from Germany (lucky me) to live and work in Nairobi for 2 months & another is selected from Kenya to do the same in Berlin: Moira Bushkimani. We were fortunate to both […]

Categories: news • Tags: artist residency, body, Brush Tu, contemporary art, cross cultural, cultural exchange, female power, Goethe Institute, gratitude, identity, moira bushkimani, performance art, photography, Sana Sanaa, selfie

MFA | MELBOURNE UNI

June 14, 2019 by nataschastellmach

Successful completion of my Master of Fine Art (Interdisciplinary Practice) I’m pleased to announce that Melbourne University have awarded my research (on longstanding project, The Letting Go) with a distinguished H1. An introduction to the work is below. The entire exegesis can be accessed here: Naked Awareness: The Private Performance of Inscribing Skin Deepest gratitude to all those who supported this endeavour: all thanked in the exegesis acknowledgements (& below). There is indeed wonder in our wounds. NAKED AWARENESS: THE […]

Categories: news • Tags: bloodline tattoo, body, identity, impermanence, performance art, photography, ritual tattoo, self-awareness, selfie, The Letting Go, vulnerability

TAGESPIEGEL | GERMANY

November 4, 2018 by nataschastellmach

Categories: news • Tags: body, frottage, group exhibition, identity, photography, The Letting Go, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner, works on paper

PORTRAIT EXTENDED | BERLIN

October 22, 2018 by nataschastellmach

October 12 – November 17, 2018 (extended till November 24) Wagner+Partner | Berlin Portrait Extended includes five new intimate works by Natascha Stellmach that address the changing notion of the self, via personal polaroids with text, paint and nail polish, and frottage (made ‘post sex’). The six artists in Portrait Extended take into account the search for identity, image and origin. To what extent are we autonomous, or ruled by outside forces? How much power does the past have for […]

Categories: news • Tags: frottage, group exhibition, identity, photography, Wagner+Partner, works on paper

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

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GOETHE INSTITUT RESIDENCY | NAIROBI

MFA | MELBOURNE UNI