Natascha Niederstrass’ photography and installation works are steeped in the symbolic intersections she detects in visual culture and history. She creates narrative reconstructions of phenomena sidelined in mainstream accounts, with the aim of reclaiming a place for them in our perceptions of reality.

Through video, photography and installation, Natascha Niederstrass's work draws inspiration from art history, cinema, and miscellaneous news stories to highlight the ambiguity of cultural signs and codes that are held up as truths, but prove misleading when confronted with a reality that eludes us.

Attentive to questions of photographic narrative, Niederstrass explores the possibilities offered by methods of historical reconstruction, with a particular focus on the grey zones between truth and fiction. She often opts for a forensic aesthetic, a surprisingly effective tool for interpreting clues that invites viewers to immerse themselves in the process of reconstructing a story, scene, or event whose visible signs are not immediately apparent.

A graduate of Concordia University in Montreal (BFA) and York University in Toronto (MFA), Natascha Niederstrass has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and artist-run centres. She has been collaborating with Galerie Patrick Mikhail in Montreal since 2022 and presented her most recent body of work, entitled Ruinenlust, there in the fall of 2024. The Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne in France also recently featured her work in a group exhibition of national interest curated by Nicolas Surlapierre, Director of MAC VAL, and Vincent Lavoie, a Professor in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in various visual arts journals and her works are included in several private and public collections, such as those of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'art de Joliette, the National Bank of Canada, Ville de Longueuil, and Ville de Laval.