Natalie Czech
Natalie Czech
Natalie Czech’s (DE 1976) conceptual photography brings together existing images and texts and places them in a new dialogue with each other. By subtly adapting aspects of Pop and Conceptual Art, she engages in a tongue-in-cheek play with the “power of images” and the “meaning of text slogans”. Natalie Czech’s conceptual photographs gauge the potentiality of pictorial and linguistic signs. Through markings in the text and image, a hidden, mundane poetry is “literally” and “pictorially” made visible and readable.
Natalie Czech’s work has become well-known through international solo shows and museum collections. Her works are included in several institutional collections such as the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Museum of Modern Art New York, LACMA LA, Victoria & Albert Museum London or the Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain Geneva. Solo exhibitions have taken place at the MAMCO, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Kunstverein Heilbronn (both 2021), KINDL - Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2019), the CRAC d’Alsace (2016), Palais de Tokyo Paris (2014), Kunstverein Hamburg (2013) and Ludlow 38 New York (2012) among others. Her works are currently on view at the new presentation of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection and from February 2024 onwards at the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf in the group exhibition "Size Matters - Scale in Photography", recently in "What are words worth?" McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, "Perspectives. Futurisms / Marcel Duchamp & Marcel Proust", Mercedes Benz Contemporary Berlin, "Breath", Hamburger Kunsthalle and "Is it true you said poems are made of words", MAMCO, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva. Her works are represented in numerous collections such as the Museum of Modern Art New York, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Fotomuseum Winterthur and the Brooklyn Museum New York.
