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
1988 - 1991
Bachelor of Applied Science (OT), Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
1997 - 1999
Diploma in Applied Photography RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
2004 - 2005
Guest Professor of Photography, Fine Arts Academy, Mainz, Germany Akademie für Bildende Künste
2009
Guest Lecturing & Mentoring Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia
2010
Complete Burning Away, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (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
2007
The Book of Back, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
The Book of Back, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Meditations # 1 – 5, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Biennale of Electronic Arts, Australia
2011
PICA Salon 2011/Westend Gallery, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
Phantoms & Nightmares, Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne / Espace culturel François Mitterrand in Beauvais, France
project11: paradise... a hell of a place, anna pappas gallery, Victoria, Australia
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
2008
Death on Tour, Fusion 5 Festival, 3.14 Hotel, Cannes, France, (BORIS + NATASCHA)
All About Him, Goethe Institut Bulgaria, Ivan Vazov National Theater Sofia, Bulgaria
2007
“Meditations # 3 in the Körber Photo Award, Deichtorhallen International House of Photography, (as BORIS + Natascha), Hamburg, Germany.
Videolounge HERRMANN & WAGNER - Special event during Art Forum, Berlin, Germany.
”Meditations #1-5”, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia,(as BORIS + NATASCHA).
2009
Australia Council 3-month grant and residency at Cité des Arts, Paris, France, 2009 - 2010
Arts Victoria International Grant for "It is Black in Here".
2008
Prix Partouche de Court Métrage Expérimental, Le Havre Biennale, France (BORIS+NATASCHA)
2007
Sidney Myer Fund grant for The Book of Back
2006 - 2007
Australia Council 12-month grant and residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
The National Gallery of Australia
The Partouche Collection, France
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
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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
