Natasha Shulte (B. 1975, Odesa) graduated from the National University of Odessa and from the Speos School of Photography in Paris. PX3 2011 Priix de la Photographie Paris winner. She has been selected by International Photography Awards as the Editorial Photographer of the year 2011. Shulte explores voltage lines between state control and personal identities. The artist also reveals the mechanisms of biopower, making these instruments visible through her projects, often placed into specially sterilised settings. The artist combines and works on the intersection of video, photography and painting. In her practice Shulte is interested in issues of social organisation, psychology and human interaction with the environment.
In her seductive paintings, with fuzzy edges and shapes morphing into each other, Natasha Shulte effortlessly creates distorted erotic mixtures of human and animal. With their open mouths, arched limbs and torsos, feeding off each other and absorbing each other, these creatures in pastel colors are dominated by basic needs.
Solo exhibition include, I love to give birth, Milan, curated by Domenico de Chirico (2023); Beauty is in the eye of the belolder, Sandwich gallery, Bucharest (2023); Closed System, Dumchyk Gallery, Kyiv (2021); Rock Paper Scissors, Invoque gallery, Odessa (2021); Closed system, Museum of Modern Art, Odessa (2021); Rock Paper Scissors, Kooperativ space, Kyiv (2021); The Symposium: Third Gender and Cyborgs, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv (20217); The Symposium: Third Gender and Cyborgs, NT Art Gallery, Odessa (20217); Resignation, pop/off/art gallery, Moscow (2013); Resignation, pop/off/art gallery, Berlin (2013)
Group exhibition include, Group project, the Biennial of the Cities of the world at Farm Cultural Park, Mazzarino (2023); Group project organized Izolyatzia Momentum. Berlin; Gallery Eigenheim, Weimar (2023); You know that you are human, THEgallery; Mursbach (2023); You know that you are human; Zionskirche, Berlin (2022); Sirens are calling from the shadows; A:D:Curatorial, Berlin (2022); Delay, Invoque gallery, Odessa (2020); Сollective project, Solvay Gallery, Paris (2020); Odessa biennale of contemporary art; Museum of Western and Eastern art (2017); Odessa biennale of contemporary art; Museum of Western and Eastern art (2015); Photobiennale Logos; Museum of photography, Thessaloniki (2014); Group project, Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts, Kyiv (2024);
Highlights :
Photographer of the year (Moving images); International Photography Awards (2016); Sony World Photography Awards, shortlisted (2012); Editorial Photographer of the year; International Photography Awards (2011); Winner of the International Color Awards (2011); Nominee of the Pinchuk Art Centre Prize, Kyiv (2011); Winner of the PX3, The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (2011)