Natascha Stellmach

Natascha Stellmach, I Have a Ghettoblaster and a Pen, 2013

Natascha Stellmach (born 1970 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian artist.

Biography

After completing a Bachelor of Applied Science (OT) in 1991, Natascha Stellmach worked part-time as a therapist in community health and pain management whilst making and exhibiting short films. She then went on to study photography at RMIT University in Melbourne. She lives between Melbourne and Berlin.[1]

Work

Natascha Stellmach works with image and text, across a range of media including installation art and happening. ”Stellmach’s dark investigations are a dance of image and text, in which hidden, emotive worlds are brought to life.”[2] Her works ”blend documentary and fiction with a strong personal voice, utilising a constellation of media to tell intimate stories about the transience of life. It is this consistent interest in the emotional layers of her conceptual works that sets her apart.”[3] Her work is often provocative and influenced by popculture. Amy Barrett-Lennard, director of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia writes: "Stellmach’s works at first appear delicate and personal, familiarly archival even, yet they soon take us into dark terrain––violence, war, suicide, death. 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.”[4]

Her works were shown at dOCUMENTA (13), the thirteenth edition of the quinquennial contemporary art exhibition.[5]

Books

References

  1. ↑ Natascha Stellmach's Website
  2. ↑ Celina Lunsford, Contre-Jour / Backlighting, Natascha Stellmach: It is Black in Here. Berlin, 2010, p. 60
  3. ↑ Ibidem
  4. ↑ Amy Barrett-Lennard: Natascha Stellmach: It is Black in Here. Natascha Stellmach: It is Black in Here. Berlin, 2010, p.3
  5. ↑ Information concerning the Documenta(13) happening: "DOCUMENTA(13) | KASSEL"

External links

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