unique | NATASCHA STELLMACH

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

TOKYO LOVE | TOKYO

May 24, 2012 by nataschastellmach

GROUP EXHIBITION – mixed media | May 24 – 31, 2012 | In support of cancer charity, Keep-A-Breast Foundation Japan | Space O Tokyo | Curated by Yasha Young

Categories: news • Tags: cancer, charity, group exhibition, Keep-A-Breast Foundation, mixed media, Tokyo, unique, vulnerability

WHAT HAPPENED TO GOD? | LEIPZIG

March 3, 2012 by nataschastellmach

GROUP EXHIBITION – installation, works on paper (from BORIS+NATASCHA’s Oracle) | March 3 – April 1, 2012 | Halle 14 Leipzig | Curated by Frank Motz

Categories: news • Tags: Alois & Klara Hitler, BORIS+NATASCHA, Frank Motz, Friedrich Nietzsche, frottage, grave rubbing, group exhibition, Halle 14, installation, Leni Riefenstahl, Max Ernst, Oracle, R.W. Fassbinder, unique, works on paper

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

BORIS+NATASCHA, 2010, Oracle from the grave of Jim Morrison, Paris, frottage on handmade paper, 47 x 66 cm, unique piece

ORACLE ‘NITE’ | MAK VIENNA

October 20, 2011 by nataschastellmach

SOLO EXHIBITION & HAPPENING – works on paper, video, séance (works from BORIS+NATASCHA’s Oracle) | October 25, 2011 | MAK Nite Lab Vienna

Categories: news • Tags: Antonio Salieri, BORIS+NATASCHA, frottage, grave rubbing, Jim Morrison, MAK Nite Lab, Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien, Oscar Wilde, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, solo exhibition, unique, video, 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