Exhibition: Macho Mystic Meltdown: Subtracted Anthology

The first Dutch solo exhibition of Minahasan artist Natasha Tontey (1989) invites you to think of a more inclusive world through speculative fiction. Her fascination finds expression in experimental video works and performances.

For Tontey, the past is not set in stone; it is something that can be revisited, reshaped, and reimagined - especially where histories hold discomfort, silenced knowledge, and unresolved failures. By engaging with these hidden layers, she opens up the possibility of imagining alternative ways of being in the world.

In Macho Mystic Meltdown: Subtracted Anthology, Tontey weaves together personal, colonial, and ancestral histories to create three parallel worlds. Through fictionalised truths and speculative narratives, each video installation in the exhibition unfolds as three chapters of the series Macho Mystic Meltdown. As a visitor you are invited into psychedelic, witty universes where identity becomes fluid, open to transformation, and resistant to fixed categories.