Nataša Berk

Censorship Project, 2015/16-

I initiated this censorship to assert my right to not have my face published without my permission and to highlight the importance of exercising our rights in every possible way – especially today. The lack of awareness and seeming insignificance of this right turned it into an art project for me, with the result of becoming someone with a censored face in a world where people are just an image. 

Nataša Berk (1978) is a diverse and versatile contemporary artist. She operates in the broader field of contemporary culture, often assuming various identities. Sometimes she works as a curator or gallerist and sometimes as a selector or collector. And she is only five million euros away from being an art dealer. Her work cannot be categorized as or confined to any specific genre and she refuses to be framed. The sharpness of her thoughts is hidden behind the naivety of a child’s perception of the world. She describes herself as an ironic and provocative avant-gardist of existentialism with a noticeable abstract instinct. After attending the High School for Design and Photography in Ljubljana, she enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien), where she received her master’s in 2005. Many of her identities’ works have been exhibited at numerous group and solo shows, both at home and abroad, from Art Moscow to Beirut Station, from Berlin to Beijing – from Vienna to Bratislava is went quickly, while in Marseille someone fell in love –, and from Ruše through Maribor to Ljubljana. Maybe she is too old for New York, but Tokyo is always on her mind. Nataša Berk and all her 23 personas believe that art can be anything but a competition. She works here and there, and exists everywhere.