Meet the artist / Nataša Berk
Meet the artist / Nataša Berk
Who are you and what do you do?
Many people. Just someone. Many contemporary workers. An artist (m), sorry, an artist (f), experts say. Mostly I'm Nataša Bergk, sometimes Hildegard Stein, I use to be Mojca Lešnik, even earlier Wanja Mannsky, once a bad painter Ernst Martin Paak, often a photographer Viivi Tarik, sometimes Isidora Tomin, here and there Tito van Jölovsen, etc. We deal with everything that irritates us, provokes us and leads us to an idea.
Describe your work in three words / adjectives.
Spontaneous, diverse, unpredictable.
Best advice on the art world you've received?
Unfortunately, I did not accept it at the time.
Artwork / author / music / movie that has been your favorite lately?
Lately, almost nothing, if I'm the one who is answering. For the rest, I’m not sure because it’s very different. The movie Holy Motors left us empty at the time we watched it. An interesting feeling. A reset.
What do you fear when you create?
I do not understand. Fear? When I create?
What creation tool would I not be able to live without?
Without coffee and bread. (We hear music in the background)
Vanja (out loud, screams): No phone!
What do you consider to be the biggest success of your artistic career so far?
Nothing and everything at the same time.
How do you view the positive or negative critique of your creation?
I can’t wait for the real criticism, let’s stop with these platitudes. However, I once read somewhere: "If you do not accept negative criticism, you are not worthy of positive criticism." However, it is also true that both are equally valuable and important, but only when constructive criticism comes from the established, amateurs and experts.
Name an artist that you would like to be compared to.
I wouldn't like that! Because I remember the feeling when they first compared me, a few times even, to Cindy Sherman. The first time I didn't even know who she is. It wasn't nice. Not because of her. I do not know. The feeling was uncomfortably strange and foreign.
How did the pandemic mark your work?
Not yet.
The relay question of the artist Mina Fina:
Favorite technique in your art practice?
Dance and photography.
Nataša Berk is an artist who uses performance, photography, video, music, drawing and the use of found objects to create her work. She is especially known for creating under many pseudonyms. She is the founder of the smallest gallery 0.04m³ and the mobile gallery 0.02m³, where she works as a selector and gallery owner.
