Artists // Natascha Stellmach // Vita:
Natascha Stellmach
*1970, Melbourne, Australia
The vulnerability of truth, the darkness of the human condition and our fleeting insignificance in the grand scheme of things are recurring concerns for Natascha Stellmach. Her works at first appear delicate and personal, familiarly archival even, yet they soon take us into dark terrain – violence, war, suicide, death. Through a range of media encompassing film, photography, prose and installation, she invites us to share in a taboo, an unspeakable subject around which she has built a narrative. These tales are supported, it seems, by documentary evidence, yet are deliberately confusing in their authenticity.
(Amy Barrett-Lennard, Director, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia)
www.bookofback.com
Education
2009-2012
Guest Lecturing & Mentoring, Photography Studies College, Melbourne
2004-2005
Guest Professor of Photography, Fine Arts Academy, Mainz, Germany: Akademie für Bildende Künste
1997-1999
Diploma in Applied Photography RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
1988-1991
Bachelor of Applied Science (OT), Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2011
PULSE Miami, solo show with WAGNER + PARTNER
2010
Complete Burning Away, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Australia
Come Live in my Head, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
2008
Set me free / I just wanted you to love me, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
Secret, HERRMANN & WAGNER, Berlin, Germany
Recent Group Exhibitions
2013
Lügengeschichten, Galerie Kit Schulte, Berlin, Germany (11.1.2013-2.3.2013)
2012
Agent Provocateur – Happening & Pop-Up Exhibition as part of dOCUMENTA(13) Kassel, Germany
Agent Provocateur – Happening & Pop-Up Exhibition, WAGNER + PARTNER Berlin, Germany
Tokyo Love Show, Space O, Tokyo, Japan
Agent Provocateur – Happening & Pop-Up Exhibition, Anna Pappas Gallery Melbourne, Australia
2011
PICA Salon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia
Phantoms & Nightmares, Espace Culturel Beauvais, France
Paradise, a hell of a place, Anna Pappas Gallery Melbourne
2010
Mythos Kindheit, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany
Identität I: Biografie, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria
2009
One Step Beyond Reality, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
Terra Nullius – Contemporary Art from Australia, Halle 14 Leipzig & ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany
J.Ulrick & W.Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Arts Centre Queensland, Australia
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Grants and Awards (Selection)
2011-12
Australia Council Established Artist New Work grant
2010
Arts Victoria International Export & Touring grant for It is Black in Here
2009
Australia Council 3-month grant and residency at Cité des Arts, Paris, France
2008
Arts Victoria International Export & Touring grant for Secret
2007
Sidney Myer Fund project grant for The Book of Back at Sydney’s ACP
2006
Australia Council 12-month grant and residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Collections
The National Gallery of Australia
The Partouche Collection, France, (BORIS + NATASCHA)
Sidney Myer Foundation, Australia
The National Library of Australia
The State Library, Melbourne, Australia
Monash University Library, Melbourne, Australia
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
Yarra Melbourne Libraries, Melbourne, Australia
The Library of New South Wales, Australia
University of Melbourne Library, Australia
The Book of Back
Catalogue/Artist book
Texts: Scott Millwood, Astrid Mania
Publisher: Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Year published: 2007
Languages: German, English
Hardcover, 54 pages
ISBN 3-932754-82-4
It is Black in Here
Catalogue/Artist book
Texts: Amy Barrett-Lennard, Celina Lunsford
Publisher: cyanpress
Year published: 2010
Languages: German, English
Hardcover, 64 pages
ISBN 13: 978-3-932193-04-0
