Natasha Tontey
Natasha Tontey is participating in the MUNCH Triennale with a new commission.
Photo: Leandro Quintero
Born in 1989 in Indonesia. Based between Yogyakarta and Jakarta.
Tontey’s artistic practice predominantly explores the fictional accounts of the history and myths surrounding ´manufactured fear´. In her practice, she observes any possibilities of other futures that are projected not from the perspective of major and established institutions, but a subtle and personal struggle of the outcasted entities and beings. She is interested in power relations between living human and non-human creatures, indigenous practices and forms of knowledge, cultural heritage, and environmental preservation.
Exhibitions include the solo show Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre (2024), commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary at Museum MACAN, Jakarta, and Garden Amidst the Flame (2022) at Auto Italia, London. Selected group exhibitions include the Singapore Biennale (2023); KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2023); De Stroom, The Hague (2022); Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2022); and Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2021).
In 2020, she received the HASH Award from ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Akademie Schloss Solitude. She was a fellow on the Human Machine programme at the Junge Akademie of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2021–2023). In 2024, she was awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation Video Production Grant.
