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 its inclusion in major museum collections. Her works are held in several institutional collections, including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva. The Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, is currently presenting her major solo exhibition “Every Window Thinks of Itself as Being an Opening.” Solo exhibitions have taken place at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, and the Kunstverein Heilbronn (both 2021); KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2019); the CRAC d’Alsace (2016); Palais de Tokyo (2014); Kunstverein Hamburg (2013); and Ludlow 38, New York (2012), among others. Her work is currently on view in “Language/Text/Image – Can You Hear Me? Can You See Me?” at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany. Recent group exhibitions have taken place at the Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA; the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; the Victoria and Albert Museum (new collection presentation), London; the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr; the Arlington Museum of Art, Texas; the Tallinn Art Hall; the The Photography Museum Braunschweig; the Musée de la Princerie, Verdun; and the Kunstforum Hermann Stenner, Bielefeld. Her works are represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Kunstmuseum Bonn; the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; the Fotomuseum Winterthur; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York.