performance art | NATASCHA STELLMACH

THE LETTING GO | BOOK & EXHIBITION

September 17, 2025 by nataschastellmach

Thank you! Danke! Sincere thanks to Creative Victoria, Creative Australia MATCH Lab, Goethe-Institut and all who contributed to the crowdfunding campaign—your generous support has made it possible to begin work on both the book and the exhibition. If you receive my Newsletter, you’ll be up to date on the 2026 Basel, Berlin and Melbourne launches and exhibition. While we’ve reached a major milestone, the funding journey isn’t over.Book pre-sales remain an essential part of getting this project across the line. […]

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THE LETTING GO | SYDNEY

August 1, 2025 by nataschastellmach

I’m excited to be presenting THE LETTING GO as a guest speaker at this year’s Australian Psychoanalytical Society’s Annual Conference on August 30, 2025. I’ll be discussing this decade-long body of work as an art practice, interwoven with my academic research that deepens its context. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Matthew McArdle will follow with a paper reflecting on how the themes in THE LETTING GO resonate within the field of psychoanalysis. The session will be chaired by the Psychoanalyst Rise Becker. […]

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VOYAGE | PART 1

June 28, 2023 by nataschastellmach

The work, “Free Passage”, is the first in the project, VOYAGE, which researches identity, migration, slow travel, sustainability and the sea, inspired by my parents’ immigration from Germany to Australia. The Queen Frederica pictured above is the ship they traveled on in 1967. That’s them standing on the bow. The Pilot Project, Part 1 of VOYAGE was supported by a juried grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds (German Arts Council). This blog describes a 2022 sea-crossing I completed as part of the […]

Categories: news • Tags: neustartkultur, performance, performance art, photography, stiftungkunstfonds, works on paper

GIANT STEPS ART AUCTION | MELBOURNE

February 17, 2023 by nataschastellmach

February 20 – March 5, 2023 The Giant Steps Art Auction includes a previously unexhibited work of mine, created with artist Moira Bushkimani during a Goethe Institut artist residency in Kenya (more on the residency below). The auction proceeds go to supporting the wonderful work that Giant Steps do for children with autism. Bid for Me and Moira, Nairobi until March 5 and you’ll be supporting this great cause. The auction includes works by 30 artists: Maree Clarke, Callum Morton, […]

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

SANA SANAA / GOETHE INSTITUT RESIDENCY | NAIROBI

October 19, 2019 by nataschastellmach

October 24 – Christmas, 2019 Honoured to be nominated for the inaugural Sana Sanaa arts residency, supported by Goethe Institute and in association with Brush Tu Artist Collective. This “twinning” or reciprocal artist residency was unique because of its focus on cultural exchange and mentoring: one artist was selected from Germany (lucky me) to live and work in Nairobi for 2 months and another from Kenya to do the same in Berlin: Moira Bushkimani. We were both concurrently in Berlin […]

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 exegesis is below (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 PRIVATE PERFORMANCE OF INSCRIBING SKIN RESEARCH STATEMENT […]

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