Natascha Stellmach     Works     Vita
*1970   Melbourne, Australia
EDUCATION & GUEST LECTURING
2009 Guest Lecturing & Mentoring Photography Studies College, Melbourne (Art Photography 3rd year)
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.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Complete Burning Away, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Australia. (04.11.- 19.12.)
Come Live in my Head, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany. (03.09.- 23.10.)
2008 "secret", Galerie Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin, Germany.
2007 Meditations # 1 – 5 Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Biennale of Electronic Arts, Australia (as BORIS + NATASCHA)  
The Book of Back, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
The Book of Back, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2002 ‘OM’ in Fragmented Memories, Footscray Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia.
2001 ‘Maya’, Chapel Off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
1999 ‘Understanding Our Place’, Axiom Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Mythos Kindheit, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany. (09.10.2010 - 02. 01.2011)
Identität I - Biografie, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria.
2009 One step beyond reality. WAGNER + Partner, Berlin, Germany
Terra Nullius – Contemporary Art from Australia, Halle 14 Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig, Germany
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2009, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Terra Nullius – Contemporary Art from Australia, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany
2008 "I just wanted you to love me", WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany.
Monitoring, Fridericianium, Kunstverein Kassel, Germany (BORIS + NATASCHA)
Biennale d’Art Contemporain Le Havre, France (BORIS + NATASCHA)
All About Him, Goethe Institut Bulgaria, Ivan Vazov National Theater Sofia, Bulgaria
Death on Tour, Fusion 5 Festival, 3.14 Hotel, Cannes, France (BORIS + NATASCHA)
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).
2006 “Prequel” photomedia work as part of Global Fusion, Palais Porcia, Vienna, Austria.
“Meditations #1”, The Australian Centre for Photography, (as BORIS + NATASCHA), Sydney, Australia.
2005 Global Fusion, (with Slavica Janeslieva), Basement, Vienna, Austria & Maroondah Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Australian Video Art,   5uper, Vienna, Austria.
“Cover Versions” (as BORIS + NATASCHA),Fish Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2003 ‘Old Man New World’ (with Miles Bennett), commissioned for Remembrance, Australian Centre for The Moving Image, Australia.
2002 The Picture Show: 4 works from “Beyond Bollywood”, Lab X Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
“Momentary Investigations”, Maroondah Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
“Exhibit X”, Lab X Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Gold Coast Arts Centre Queensland, Australia.
2001 Wyndham City Contemporary Art Prize Victoria, Australia.
“She Who Must Be Obeyed”, Walker St Gallery, Victoria, Australia.
“Burn Baby Burn”, McGregor Prize for Photography University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
2000 blink, The Australian Centre Contemporary Art, Australia.
Asleep Awake, Australian Centre for Photography Sydney, major cross-media touring art project commissioned by Next Wave Festival Melbourne, (with Bennett & Lelliott)
2000-2002 Centre for Contemporary Photography Summer Salon, Melbourne, Australia.
GRANTS
2009 Australia Council 3-month grant and residency at Cité des Arts, Paris, France, 2009 - 2010
2007 Sidney Myer Fund grant for The Book of Back
2006-2007 Australia Council 12-month grant and residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
2001 15 week new-media Artist in Residence and weekly tutorials with Western Region Health’s “Rocket” Programme (with Miles Bennett).
AWARDS
2008 Prix Partouche de Court Métrage Expérimental, Le Havre Biennale, France (BORIS+NATASCHA)
2001 Wyndham City Contemporary Art Prize (Best 2D work for She), Chapel off Chapel Exhibition Award + Gabriel Gallery Exhibition Award (Dandenong Community Arts Centre).
2000 Next Wave Festival grant for Asleep Awake   (with Miles Bennett & Michael Lelliott).
McGregor Prize for Photography (Highly Commended).
New Filmmaker Award for womb, Wild Spaces Environmental Film Festival, Australia.
1999 National Association for Visual Arts (NAVA) grant for Public Space? Exhibition.
New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS) to develop art practice as small business.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Kunstsammlung Akademie der Künste, Germany.
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia.
Yarra Melbourne Libraries, North Melbourne, Australia.
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Australia, England, Germany and USA