GirlGI | Girl Gone International GirlGI Issue 4 | Page 136

Visual artist Natascha Stellmach has been spent the last decade thriving and commuting between Berlin and her native Australia. Of her first impressions of the Berlin art scene, she says ‘What struck me was the lack of parochialism. And perhaps because there were so many established as well as transient artists, there wasn’t really any one scene. No one gave a shit what you looked like or who you were – there was an unpretentious fluidity and freedom that was seductive, making you believe you could do anything and be anyone.’ 1 Natascha Stellmach 2