performance art | NATASCHA STELLMACH

VOYAGE | PART 1

November 14, 2022 by nataschastellmach

The work, Free Passage, is the first in the project, VOYAGE, which researches slow travel across the seas and my parents immigration from Germany to Australia. The Queen Frederica pictured above is the ship my parents traveled on in 1967. That’s them standing on the bow. The blog below describes my recent voyage. The project is supported by a juried grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds (German Arts Council). I left Berlin early this August 23rd, 2022 morning for Bremerhaven (an auspicious […]

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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 Art Studio. This “twinning” artist residency is unique because of its focus on cultural exchange and mentoring: one artist is selected from Germany (lucky me) to live and work in Nairobi for 2 months and another is selected from Kenya to do the same in Berlin: Moira Bushkimani. We were both concurrently in Berlin […]

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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 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 PRIVATE […]

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VOYAGE | PART 1

SANA SANAA / GOETHE INSTITUT RESIDENCY | NAIROBI

MFA | MELBOURNE UNI