Natasha Tontey
Natasha Tontey working and living in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 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 work has been shown at transmediale 2021, Kyoto Experiment 2021, Asian Film Archive (2021), Other Futures (2019), Liquid Architecture (2019) amongst others.
In 2020 she received the HASH Award from ZKM and Akademie Schloss-Solitude, and is currently a fellow for Human Machine of the Junge Akademie at Akademie der Künste Berlin (2021-2022).
PAMERAN TUNGGAL / SOLO EXHIBITION
2020
Pest to Power at K4 Gallery of Moving
Image, Københavngata (Oslo, Norwegia)
2018
ALMANAK at Cemeti - Institut for Art and
Society (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
AWARD / FELLOWSHIP
2021
Human Machine Fellowship by Akademie
der Künste and E.ON Stiftung
2020
HASH Award 2020 for Net-Based Projects
in the Fields of Art, Technology, and Design
by ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien
Karlsruhe and Akademie Schloß Solitude
Performance Space Micro-fellowship
2019
ArtJog MMXIX Young Artist Award by
MUSEUM MACAN FOUNDATION
RESIDENSI / RESIDENCIES
2020
Martin Roth Initiative Virtual Residency
for transmediale 2021
2019
>>Planetary Glitch<< Web Residency by
ZKM & Akademie Schloss-Solitude
2015
Koganecho Bazaar 2015, Koganecho Area
Management Center (Yokohama, Japan)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2021
Transmediale for Refusal at Bettonhale
Silent Green (Berlin, Germany)
State of Motion [Alternate/Opt] Realities
by Asian Film Archive (Singapore)
Kyoto Experiment Spring 2021 (Kyoto, Japan)
Universal Iterations at Komunitas
Salihara (Jakarta, Indonesia)
2020
‘The Wrong Biennale for Digital Arts’ (the internet)
‘Re-Imagining Futures’ Curated by Henk Slager
at ONCurating Space (Zurich, Switzerland)
‘ArtJog MMXIX Art in Commons’ Curated at Jogja
National Museum (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
‘Multispecies Experiments’ CT Curated
by Other Futures, at Compagnie Theater
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
‘Indonesian Women Artist’ Into the Future, at
Galeri Nasional Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia)
2018
‘THE INSTRUMENT BUILDERS PROJECT - Circulating
Echo’, at Kyoto Art Centre (Kyoto, Japan)
‘MASS’ working as collaborator for Auto
Italia South-East, at Cemeti Institute for Art
and Society (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
PERFORMANCES / LECTURE / SCREENING
2021
Back to the Ritual at ADAM Asia Discovers
Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance,
Taipei Performing Arts Centre.
2020
The Forest Is In The City Is In The Forest - II, developed
in collaboration with the RAT School of Art, Seoul, with
the support of the the Arts Korea Council, the Goethe
Institut, Korea and in association with the GAMeC,
Bergamo. Curated by Abhijan Toto & Pujita Guha
FAUX MO / MONA FOMA at Launceston, Tasmania
2019
Performance Lecture on ‘Manifesto of Speculative
Future’ at Goethe Institut Indonesien
Tricks of the Mouth at Performance
SpaceCarriageworks presented by
Liquid Architecture, Sydney
Polyphonic Social 2019 presented by
Liquid Architecture, Melbourne VIC
SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITINGS
2021
Mapalus
https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/onlinepublications/
untranslatable/mapalus/
2020
Invisible Currency; A Speculation Through
Pest, Diaspora, and Futures
https://www.so-far.online/invisible-currency/
The Epoch of Mapalucene
https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/luxury-bunker-
4-the-epoch-of-mapalucene-natasha-tontey/
2019
Speculation in the Dark Times (coauthor
with Sanne Oorthuizen)
https://www.mahkuscript.com/articles/10.5334/mjfar.56/
SELECTED PRESS / INTERVIEWS
2021
JUNGE AKADEMIE and E.ON Foundation
award Human-Machine Fellowship to
Indonesian media artist Natasha Tontey
https://www.adk.de/en/press/pressreleases.
htm?we_objectID=62715
2020
Artist-in-Residence: Interview with Natasha Tontey
https://transmediale.de/content/artist-inresidence-
interview-with-natasha-tontey
Future Failure : Failed Futures
https://schloss-post.com/future-failure-failed-futures/
The World is a Computer
https://kunstkritikk.com/the-world-is-a-computer/
2019
VICE Netherlands ‘Wat mensen van
kakkerlaken’ by Adriana Ivanova
https://www.vice.com/nl/article/43jnyd/wat-mensen-vankakkerlakken-
kunnen-leren?utm_source=vicefbned
ARTFORUM Critics Pick ‘Twinkle’ by Olivia Perce
https://www.artforum.com/picks/twinkle-79758
The Future is A Cockroach, Interview by Schloss-
Post (Akademie Schloss-Solitude & ZKM)
Indonesian Women Artist into the Future by Carla
Bianpoen (Published by Yayasan Cemara 6)
2018
The Fear Producer’ written by Nuraini Juliastuti of
KUNCI Study Forum & Collective (October 2018)
http://tontey.org/natasha-tontey-the-fear-producer/
Alia Swastika ‘Merayakan Feminisme Baru’
published at Koran Tempo July 2018