Natalie Czech

Natalie Czech (b. 1976, Germany) is a conceptual photographer whose work brings together existing images and texts, creating a new dialogue between them. 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”. Czech’s conceptual photographs explore the potential of pictorial and linguistic signs. Through markings in the text and image, a hidden, mundane poetry is made visible and readable both “literally” and “pictorially”. Her works are included in several institutional collections such as the Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, LACMA in Los Angeles, Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Musée d‘Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva. Czech has had solo exhibitions at MAMCO, Musée d‘Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva, Kunstverein Heilbronn (both 2021), KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin (2019), CRAC Alsace (2016), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2014), Kunstverein Hamburg (2013) and Ludlow 38 in New York (2012), among others.