Photo courtesy of the artist and Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
Natasha Tontey is Minahasan artist based between Yogyakarta and Jakarta. Her 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.
Her recent 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 and screenings include presentations at Museum MACAN; the 34th Singapore International Film Festival (2021,2023) ; the 57th and 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (2023, 2024); the Singapore Biennale (2023); KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2023); De Stroom, The Hague (2022); GHOST:2565, Bangkok (2022); Protozone8 Queer Trust, Zürich (2022); Arko Art Council, Seoul (2022); Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2022); Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2021); transmediale, Berlin (2021); Performance Space, Sydney (2021); Other Futures, Amsterdam (2021); Kyoto Experiment (2021); and the Asian Film Archive, Singapore (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.
Profile picture and bio in courtesy of the artist and Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
Writings:
Natasha Tontey’s “Primate Visions: Macaque Macabre,” 2024-25, February 14, 2025 12:10 pm, Artforum.