Nataša Skušek
Name: Skušek, Nataša
No. of works: 18
Countries: Slovenia
Born: 1967

 
Biography

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)

 
Author's Works
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Nataša Skušek - Toaleta 1 / 36Nataša Skušek - Toaleta 1 / 36Nataša Skušek - Toaleta 1 / 36
Nataša Skušek - Toaleta 1 / 36 (00:03:31)
Production: 2005
Video collage composed of 36 photographs of the author laying in a bathtub dressed in different clothes.
Nataša Skušek - FliperautomatNataša Skušek - FliperautomatNataša Skušek - Fliperautomat
Nataša Skušek - Fliperautomat (00:02:47)
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...
Nataša Skušek - EcstasyNataša Skušek - EcstasyNataša Skušek - Ecstasy
Nataša Skušek - Ecstasy (00:11:28)
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...
Nataša Skušek - Venezia 2Nataša Skušek - Venezia 2Nataša Skušek - Venezia 2
Nataša Skušek - Venezia 2 (00:12:05)
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...
Nataša Skušek - Venezia 1Nataša Skušek - Venezia 1Nataša Skušek - Venezia 1
Nataša Skušek - Venezia 1 (00:12:05)
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.
Nataša Skušek - WeddingNataša Skušek - WeddingNataša Skušek - Wedding
Nataša Skušek - Wedding (00:01:00)
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...
Nataša Skušek - LebdenjeNataša Skušek - LebdenjeNataša Skušek - Lebdenje
Nataša Skušek - Lebdenje (00:04:31)
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...
Nataša Skušek - You Will See...Nataša Skušek - You Will See...Nataša Skušek - You Will See...
Nataša Skušek - You Will See... (00:04:23)
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.
Martina Bastarda, Mateja Ocepek, Nataša Skušek - PissingMartina Bastarda, Mateja Ocepek, Nataša Skušek - PissingMartina Bastarda, Mateja Ocepek, Nataša Skušek - Pissing
Martina Bastarda, Mateja Ocepek, Nataša Skušek - Pissing (0:04:28)
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...
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YEARS 25 decades present
SCCA Ljubljana, Jake Yuzna - Back2Back: Jake Yuzna – The Alternative Is Hard To See
SCCA Ljubljana, Jake Yuzna - Back2Back: Ja... (1:19:36)
SCCA-Ljubljana, 2021
SCCA-Ljubljana, Milena Kosec - Video evening with DIVA Station: Milena Kosec
SCCA-Ljubljana, Milena Kosec - Video eve... (01:01:51)
SCCA–Ljubljana, Galerij..., 2021
Lea Badovinac, Ela Romih, Amadej Zalokar - U reki (MRFY)
Lea Badovinac, Ela Romih, Amadej Zalokar... (04:20)
SCCA-Ljubljana, Društvo Kr..., 2020
Tyfenn Comparot, Sasha Ihnatovich, Rožana Švara, Lea Teraž - U reki (MRFY)
Tyfenn Comparot, Sasha Ihnatovich, Roža... (04:27)
SCCA-Ljubljana, Društvo Kr..., 2020
Lučka Peterlin, Tilen Peterlin - Faking keš (Balans)
Lučka Peterlin, Tilen Peterlin - Faking... (04:16)
SCCA-Ljubljana, Društvo Kr..., 2021/2022
SCCA-Ljubljana, Andreja Džakušič, Simon Macuh, Iva Tratnik, Keiko Miyazaki - Video evening with DIVA Station: Andreja Džakušič, SIVA and IvAnKe
SCCA-Ljubljana, Andreja Džakušič, Sim... (57:47)
SCCA–Ljubljana, Galerij..., 2021
SCCA-Ljubljana - Video art in videospot
SCCA-Ljubljana - Video art in videospot (01:24:02)
SCCA-Ljubljana, 2017
Lea Badovinac - My Juliet Beckons (Niko Novak)
Lea Badovinac - My Juliet Beckons (Niko No... (04:17)
SCCA-Ljubljana, Društvo Kr..., 2021/2022
Maria Sorokina - Shadows (YREX)
Maria Sorokina - Shadows (YREX) (03:16)
SCCA-Ljubljana, Društvo Kr..., 2021/2022
SCCA-Ljubljana, Duba Sambolec - Video evening with DIVA Station: Duba Sambolec
SCCA-Ljubljana, Duba Sambolec - Video ev... (01:27:52)
SCCA-Ljubljana, Galerija Ph..., 2022
Ela Hartman, Jakob Žorž, Kaja Horvat - Skupivn (SBO)
Ela Hartman, Jakob Žorž, Kaja Horvat -... (03:34)
SCCA-Ljubljana, Društvo Kr..., 2020
SCCA Ljubljana, Matevž Jerman - Back2Back: Matevž Jerman – Rendezvous with the Past
SCCA Ljubljana, Matevž Jerman - Back2Ba... (01:34:21)
SCCA-Ljubljana, 2022
Milena Kosec - Rene Rusjan: Holes in space, holes in time
Milena Kosec - Rene Rusjan: Holes in spa... (35:55)
Galerija Vila Katarina, 1996
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