Wagner+Partner | NATASCHA STELLMACH

KÖRPER*SELBST | BERLIN

October 16, 2016 by nataschastellmach

October 21 – November 19, 2016. Wagner+Partner | Berlin What does it mean, to have a body and to form an identity? This group exhibition addresses this question in numerous ways: through photography, installation, film and painting – and by artists across three generations. Artists: Andreea Cioran • Izabella Gustowska • Ren Hang • Eckart Hahn • Natascha Stellmach Stellmach’s floor to ceiling installation of a selection of photographs and testimonials from The Letting Go** reveal participants’ oft-fragile and frequently powerful […]

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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, Amsterdam, art fair, bloodline tattoos, catharsis, I Don't Have a Gun, photography, The Letting Go, unique, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner

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 […]

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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, bloodline tattoo, burnout, catharsis, inkless tattoo, installation, performance, photography, solo exhibition, unique, vulnerability, Wagner+Partner

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 […]

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AGENT PROVOCATEUR | BERLIN

July 5, 2012 by nataschastellmach

July 6, 2012 from 19:00 | Wagner + Partner Berlin. PERFORMANCE – pen tattoos + installation (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 onto their skin by the […]

Categories: news • Tags: Berlin, catharsis, Kunst Kontakter, Kurt Cobain, Kylie Minogue, pen tattoo, performance, photography, Wagner+Partner

Natascha Stellmach, 2012, Hannah wearing Varookamcsalt, Southern USA, ink on photo rag, 40 x 60cm

PULSE ART FAIR | 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

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