

Nataša Skušek is a visual artist who, apart from video, uses various other medias of expression such as performance, sculpture, drawing, or photography in order to deal with the topic of social relations of women in contemporary world. Lately, she mostly takes upon the autobiographical position. She reflects on the complicated relations in a marriage and family ties. She had been actively exhibiting at numerous solo and group shows ever since 1999. In 2005 she finished MFA at the Academy of Fine Art in Ljubljana and Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim. She lives and works in Ljubljana. In the framework of individual projects she had often collaborated with various artists like Mladen Stropnik, Rene Rusjan, Mateja Ocepek, Martina Bastarda and others. (Portrait photo: Jaka Babnik)
Production: SCCA–Ljubljana, Galerija Photon, Nataša Skušek, 2020
Video Evenings are events organized by SCCA-Ljubljana and Photon Gallery with screenings and talks by artists included in the DIVA Station archive. In the time of the coronavirus pandemic we prepared a digital event with a screening and conversation in th...
Production: N.S., 2013
Videoperfomans je bil vključen na samostojno razstavo z naslovom Pravi moški v Galeriji Alkatraz leta 2014. Nataša Skušek v svojih delih obravnava stereotipne družbene, seksualne in družinske vloge, ki jih družba pripisuje ženska...
Production: N.S., 2013
Videoperfomans je bil vključen na samostojno razstavo z naslovom Pravi moški v Galeriji Alkatraz leta 2014. Nataša Skušek v svojih delih obravnava stereotipne družbene, seksualne in družinske vloge, ki jih družba pripisuje ženska...
Production: N.S., 2013
Videoperfomans je bil vključen na samostojno razstavo z naslovom Pravi moški v Galeriji Alkatraz leta 2014. Nataša Skušek v svojih delih obravnava stereotipne družbene, seksualne in družinske vloge, ki jih družba pripisuje ženska...
Production: N.S., 2011
Video prikazuje moškega v spodnjicah, ki trdno spi na postelji. Ženska roka ga obmetava z obešalniki, vendar ga to ne zbudi. Čez nekaj časa se telo v spanju začne tresti, kot bi skušalo odvreči nakopičene obešalnike. Vide...
Production: 2008
The artist is placed in the place of a naked female model inside an impressionistic painting by Édouard Manet Luncheon on the Grass. Video collage is author's miniature emancipatory gesture fighting against the passive representation of women.
Production: 2008
Video documents the cleaning o fan apartment with the help of Fen Shui method. The author presents a humours version of a cliché expression with a multiple meaning, which is firmly present in the western culture. The raw document of a performance is crea...
Production: 2007
The video documents a performance depicting one of the author's dream. The viewer witnesses a directed imitation of a dream. The other author poses in a dream that does not belong to her. But despite the acting a metaphysical ambient is created. An e...
Production: 2007
Video work discusses time management in a modern family life. The authors document their holiday with their children and through personal experience explore the overload and expectations imposed upon an individual about themselves by modern society.
Production: 2005
Video collage composed of 36 photographs of the author laying in a bathtub dressed in different clothes.
Production: 2005
V videu se na štirih slikah, ki se izmenjujejo na ekranu, odvijajo mitološka ženska opravila: kuhanje, pranje, likanje, masiranje, dojenje. Vlogam sodobne ženske - delavke, negovalke, žene, ljubice, urejene lepotice - avtorica dodaja &sca...
Production: 2005
The video consists of ten close-up shots of the author's face while breastfeeding her daughter. The author got inflammation of the tissue in her breast or mastitis and shows the unpleasant, painful part of motherhood, which is usually depicted with ideali...
Production: 2004
A flipped shot of a walk in Venice with unidentified figure in red and city background. The work is a continuation of a video Venezia 1. A figure in a red costume walks forward along a white line until it reaches perpendicular to the line. The image and t...
Production: 2004
Video captures an unidentified figure dressed in red walking backwards. The figure is following a white line to its end, where it meets a new white line, which crosses the first one and completes the space. The scene is accompanied by loud street sounds.
Production: 2004
A one-minute video is a simple static shot of an altar celebrating a wedding. It is ornamented with a bouquet of flowers, wedding cards and gilded statue. Above the altar an empty frame is set in which signs quoting personal declarations of married couple...
Production: 2004
V videu avtorica leži v vodi in spominja na Ofelijo, ki je postala ikona obupane ženske. Ko leži v vodi in mimo nje namesto rož, kot na sliki Ophelie Johna Evereta Millaisa, plavajo odsevi kamenja, je popolna. Ne upira se več igri okoli nje in izpoln...
Production: 2003
Video is set on a windy beach. The author and her sister appear in two roles, which foretell dim prospects to each other with clichee expresions in a sinister way. Simple editing and the usage of shot reverse shot is used.
Production: 2002
Video work by three artists establishes a feministic social critique with an act of urinating in public. The authors in elegant costumes are placed into an idyllic snowy landscape. They take down their tights, lift their skirts and start urinating in a po...