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 exhibitions and inclusion in major museum collections. Her works are held in institutional collections such as the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Museum of Modern Art, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva. Solo exhibitions have taken place at MAMCO, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, and Kunstverein Heilbronn (both 2021); KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2019); CRAC d’Alsace (2016); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014); Kunstverein Hamburg (2013); and Ludlow 38, New York (2012), among others. Recent group exhibitions include KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf (DE); Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio (US); Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (CH); the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new collection presentation (UK); Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr (DE); Arlington Museum of Art, Texas (US); Tallinn Art Hall (EE); Photography Museum Braunschweig (DE); Musée de la Princerie, Verdun (FR); and Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld (DE). Her works are represented in numerous collections, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; Fotomuseum Winterthur; and Brooklyn Museum, New York. Currently, the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr (DE) is presenting her major solo exhibition "Every Window Thinks of Itself as Being an Opening."
