Janaina Tschäpe

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Janaina Tschäpe (born 1973) is a German artist.

Biography[]

Janaina Tschäpe was born in 1973 in Munich, Germany,^[1] and was raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Hochschule für Bildende Kueste, Hamburg in 1997 and her Master in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 1998.^[1] Tschäpe’s interdisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, photography, video and sculpture. Incorporating elements of aquatic, plant, and human life, Tschäpe’s universe of sublime forms shift between representation, fantasy and abstraction.

The artist lives and works in New York since 1997.^[2]

Selected solo exhibitions[]

• 2021: Balancing into the Deep, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
• 2020: Between the Sky and the Water, Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College, Sarasota, Florida
• 2020: Contemporary Counterpoint, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
• 2019: Mapping the Unattainable, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2018: HumidGray and ShadowLake, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
• 2018: Halbschatten, Bastide Projects, Marseille, France
• 2017: O Amor no Éter, Xippas Punta del Leste, Uruguay
• 2017: Unterirdisch Auch Du, Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2016: Iceberg, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japan
• 2016: Pássaro Que Me Engoliu, Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2015: Fernweh, , Berlin, Germany
• 2015: Until I Come, Gallerie Xippas, Paris, France
• 2014: Contemplating Landscape, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China
• 2014: Floating Worlds, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona
• 2014: The Ghost in Between, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2014: Fern Weh, Xippas Montevideo, Uruguay
• 2013: The Forest, The Cloud and The Sea, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
• 2013: The Ghost in Between, Tierney Gardarin Gallery, New York City
• 2012: Endless, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
• 2012: Entschluptf, Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneve, Switzerland
• 2012: Flatland, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2012: Shaping Fluid, Galleri Bo Bjerggard, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2011: Entschluptf, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
• 2011: Dream Particles, Carlie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
• 2008: Quimera at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)

Selected group exhibitions[]

• 2021: Janaina Tschäpe & Ursula Reuter Christiansen: Das Unheimliche, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

Collections[]

• Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• Guggenheim Museum, New York^[1]
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
• Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Mudam, Luxembourg^[3]
• National Museum of Women in the Arts^[4]
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
• Banco Espirito Santo, Lisbon, Portugal
• Société Générale, New York, NY
• Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, MAM Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Paris, France
• Clifford Chance, New York, USA
• Frac Champagne Ardennes, Reims, France
• Foundation Belgacom: Proximus Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
• Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
• Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
• Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Mudam Musée d'Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg
• Musee de la Photographie, Brussels, Belgium
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Progressive Corporation, Ohio, USA
• Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
• Taguchi Fine Art Collection, Japan^[5]
• Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
• The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Olso, Norway
• Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
• Tokyo Roki Co. Ltd, Japan
• University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida

Bibliography[]

• ARANTES, Priscila; BARROS, Lenora; LESCHER, Artur. Enciclopédia Temporada de Projetos: 1997–2009. São Paulo: Paço das Artes, 2010.
• Art Now! Vol. 4, Hans Werner Holzwarth (editor), Cologne: Taschen, 2013

References[]

External links[]

• Official site