THE LETTING GO

The Letting Go is a project and 1:1 process with Natascha Stellmach. From 2012 through 2020, Stellmach pioneered an artistic-somatic process and worked with individuals to addresses a personal obstacle. The process is empowering and involves: identifying, naming, embodying, seeing and experiencing healing and impermanence play out on the body through a holistic experience that includes the art of bloodline tattooing. The Letting Go encourages self-awareness and celebrates our capacity for reconciliation.

Natascha Stellmach, Day 1, Moira’s Letting Go, 2019

ABOUT THE LETTING GO: ENGLISH |  DEUTSCH
PERFORMANCES: ENGLISH  |  DEUTSCH
RESEARCH: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY

THE PROCESS:

Participant meditating with Stellmach as part of The Letting Go, Berlin Festival, 2014, photo by Michael Lelliott
1. The Letting Go: “Landing in our Bodies”, Berlin Festival 2014, photo by Michael Lelliott
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2. The Letting Go: “Finding the Word”, Kunst Galerie Fürth 2015, photo by Joana Schwender
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3. The Letting Go: Preparing to tattoo, MK&G Hamburg 2015
Stellmach tattoos Grief in German, Berlin Festival, photo by Michael Lelliott
4. The Letting Go: Natascha tattoos ‘the word’, Berlin Festival 2014, © Studio Stellmach, photo by Michael Lelliott
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5. The Letting Go: “Embodying the Word-Wound” (Bernd’s Letting Go), Galerie Wagner+Partner 2013
Stellmach photographs a participant with her CLING tattoo
5. The Letting Go: Natascha photographs the Word-Wound, MKG Hamburg 2015
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6. The Letting Go: The skin heals and the word fades and eventually disappears: Dupe, Day 25, Selfie by Adam, 2016

[Respect goes out to the 120+ daring, stunning souls who participated in The Letting Go.]

PRESS
Barbed Magazine |  The Letting Go: artist portrait, Issue 05 / Spring 2017, Detroit, p. 55
Teaser Magazine | Künstler Portrait: Natascha Stellmach by Katrin Kobberger – Artist Portrait, 2015 (Deutsch)
Essay | Gespannte Erwartung: Ecce Me! – by Rafael von Uslar, 2015 (Deutsch)
Nürnberger Nachrichten | Mit Herzblut gezeichnet – Review by Reinhard Kalb, 2015 (Deutsch)
TV – Hamburg 1 | Diese Tattoos verschwinden von selbst, 2015 (Deutsch)
Hamburger Abendblatt | Wenn das Museum zur Tätowierstube wird – Review by Heinrich Oehmsen, 2015 (Deutsch)
Der Tagesspiegel | Vom Regen ausgewischt – Review by Michael Nungesser, 2014 (Deutsch)
art in berlin | Scheitern – so many ways to fail – Review by Inge Pett, 2014 (Deutsch)
Dazed Digital | Under The Gun – Review by Natalie Holmes, 2013
Berliner Zeitung | Das Böse ist immer und überall – Review by Ingeborg Ruthe, 2013 (Deutsch)
Die Welt & Berliner Morgenpost | Kämpf den Dämonen – Review by Frédéric Schwilden, 2013 (Deutsch)
Deutschlandradio Kultur | Kunst die unter die Haut geht – Andreas Main, 2013 (audio & transcript: Deutsch)
TAZ, Die Tageszeitung, Berlin | Tattoo-Happening zur Selbsterkenntnis – Review by Meike Jansen, 2013 (Deutsch)
a.muse Berlin | Beyond The Smoking Gun – Review & Interview by Julie Anne Miranda–Brobeck, 2013
Troublemag | Review & Interview by Carmen Ansaldo, 2013
Nau Nua Art Magazine | Interview by Juan Carlos Rom, 2013

©NataschaStellmachThe Letting Go: Mathias's Ernst & Frauke's Kerker, 2015
Day 1, Frauke & Mathias’s Letting Go, 2015