worry doll | NATASCHA STELLMACH

PUNK. IT’S TRACES IN CONTEMPORARY ART | BARCELONA

March 16, 2016 by nataschastellmach

May 13 – September 25, 2016. MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona | curated by David G. Torres. This major touring exhibition echoes the important presence of Punk as an attitude. Noise, refusal, violence, destruction, alienation, anarchy, nihilism and sexuality are explored and accompanied by references to bands, texts, music, and iconic works. A bilingual 380-page publication is available. As in the graphic designs of Jamie Reid or the collages by COUM Transmissions, the dolls of Natascha Stellmach display sexual […]

Categories: news • Tags: Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, fear, group exhibition, installation, MACBA, photography, worry doll

PUNK. IT’S TRACES IN CONTEMPORARY ART | VITORIA

October 4, 2015 by nataschastellmach

October 23, 2015 – January 31, 2016. Artium Vitoria | curated by David G. Torres. This major touring exhibition echos the important presence of Punk as an attitude. Noise, refusal, violence, destruction, alienation, anarchy, nihilism and sexuality are explored and accompanied by references to bands, texts, music, and iconic works. What “PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art” proposes is not just another dull exhibition in which a movement is dissected and castrated. It’s no death certificate, basically because what is […]

Categories: news • Tags: CA2M Museum Madrid, fear, group exhibition, installation, photography, worry doll

PUNK. IT’S TRACES IN CONTEMPORARY ART | MADRID

March 12, 2015 by nataschastellmach

March 26 – October 4, 2015. CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Madrid | curated by David G. Torres. This major touring exhibition echos the important presence of Punk as an attitude. Noise, refusal, violence, destruction, alienation, anarchy, nihilism and sexuality are explored and accompanied by references to bands, texts, music, and iconic works. What “PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art” proposes is not just another dull exhibition in which a movement is dissected and castrated. It’s no death certificate, […]

Categories: news • Tags: CA2M Museum Madrid, fear, group exhibition, installation, photography, worry doll

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

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

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