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BABES BITCHES & QUEENS

December 17, 2020 by nataschastellmach

BABES BITCHES & QUEENS is both an empowerment programme and a new artistic project. It invites you to explore your dark and golden shadow traits with me to create a Superpower Archetype that will help you navigate these strange times with more ease. And this archetype will not only relate personally, but also help you nail your focus for positive social change. Across four confidential online sessions, we’ll dive into archetypes such as the lover, healer, mother, whore and warrior […]

Categories: news • Tags: Babes & Bitches, identity, participatory art, self-awareness, shadow work, social practice, vulnerability

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 […]

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

THE LETTING GO | NATIONAL COMMERCIAL TV

January 12, 2018 by nataschastellmach

EXCERPT FROM THE DOCUMENTARY “TATTOOS II” Commissioned by Galileo Spezial for German National Commercial Broadcaster Pro 7 Thnx to the inspiring documentary crew from pqpp2. Respect and gratitude to participants Thilo and Alena. Below are Alena’s reflections in the weeks post-session. ENGLISH below Natascha, du hast mich auf eine Reise geschickt! Es steht alles Kopf. Zuerst der Schmerz. Das Tattoo auf meiner Brust, genau da, wo sich alles zusammen zieht, wenn ich KAMPF denke. Es war brutal. Du ganz […]

Categories: news • Tags: body, performance, photography, The Letting Go, vulnerability

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, alter ego, Babes & Bitches, 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

Natascha Stellmach, 2007, Sewing Calms Me Down, archival ink on photo rag, 120 x 84 cm, courtesy Wagner+Partner

UNSEEN PHOTO FAIR | AMSTERDAM

September 12, 2013 by nataschastellmach

September 26 – 29, 2013 | Wagner+Partner, Booth N 20. Natascha Stellmach at Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam with artists Erwin Olaf and Miklos Gaál. SELECTED PRESS Handelsblat Amsterdam | Review September 27, 2013 (Nederlands)

Categories: news • Tags: 3 person exhibition, alter ego, Amsterdam, art fair, photography, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner

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, Babes & Bitches, 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

I AM NOT INTERESTED IN REALITY | BERLIN

November 1, 2012 by nataschastellmach

November 2 – 30, 2012. Wagner + Partner Berlin in association with The European Month of Photography. Following her successful participation at dOCUMENTA(13), Australian artist Natascha Stellmach’s new work tackles fear and intimacy, themes the artist consistently places under her scurrilous lens. Photographic prints which are scans of grotesque worry dolls that the artist has made, become adult totems to project fears onto and embody narcissism, failure, prejudice and murder. An installation involving an artist book encloses a dark erotic tale […]

Categories: news • Tags: artist book, Berlin, Erica Jong, European Month of Photography, fear, Fear of Flying, group exhibition, installation, photography, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner, worry doll

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

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

FANTÔMES & CAUCHEMARS | BEAUVAIS

May 9, 2011 by nataschastellmach

GROUP EXHIBITION – installation, video, artist book, mixed media (works from The Book of Back) | May 13 – August 21, 2011 | Espace Culturel Beauvais | Curated by Marie-Luz Ceva & Gaïdig Lemarié

Categories: news • Tags: artist book, BORIS+NATASCHA, childhood, Espace Culturel Beauvais, group exhibition, installation, mixed media, Nobuyoshi Araki, The Book of Back, video, vulnerability, worry doll

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

Natascha Stellmach, Still from Oi Oi Oi, 2006, Super 8 film transferred to video, sound, 3:30 min video loop

MYTHOS KINDHEIT | LUDWIGSHAFEN

October 9, 2010 by nataschastellmach

GROUP EXHIBITION – installation, video, mixed media (works from The Book of Back) | October 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011 | Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany | Curated by Barbara Auer & Andréa Holzherr

Categories: news • Tags: Astrid Mania, childhood, group exhibition, installation, Kindheit, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, mixed media, The Book of Back, video, vulnerability, worry doll

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

VIENNAFAIR | VIENNA

May 7, 2010 by nataschastellmach

BOOK LAUNCH & SIGNING – It is Black in Here | Friday May 7, 17:00, 2010 | VIENNAFAIR: Wagner + Partner, Booth A 2005

Categories: news • Tags: Amy Barrett-Lennard, art fair, Arts Victoria, book signing, Celina Lunsford, It is Black in Here, Vienna, 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

PARIS PHOTO | PARIS

November 19, 2009 by nataschastellmach

BOOK SIGNING – The Book of Back | Thursday November 19, 19:00, 2009 | Paris Photo: Schaden Books, Booth C–10

Categories: news • Tags: art fair, Astrid Mania, book signing, Paris, photography, The Book of Back, vulnerability, worry doll

ONE STEP BEYOND REALITY | BERLIN

July 17, 2009 by nataschastellmach

GROUP EXHIBITION – photography (works from secret) | July 17 – August 29, 2009 | Wagner + Partner Berlin

Categories: news • Tags: Berlin, childhood, group exhibition, photography, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner

TERRA NULLIUS – CONTEMPORARY ART FROM AUSTRALIA | WEIMAR & LEIPZIG

May 1, 2009 by nataschastellmach

GROUP EXHIBITION – installation, video, photography, mixed media (works from The Book of Back) | ACC Galerie Weimar: January 27 – March 22, 2009 | Halle 14 Leipzig: May 1 – July 26, 2009 | Curated by Frank Motz & Deborah Kelly

Categories: news • Tags: ACC Galerie, group exhibition, Halle 14, installation, mixed media, photography, The Book of Back, video, vulnerability