Janaina Tschäpe

(German, born 1973)

blood sea (film still 1) by janaina tschäpe

Janaina Tschäpe

Blood Sea (Film Still 1), 2007

Biography

Timeline

1973
Born in Munich, Germany
1992 - 1998
Fine Arts Studies, Hochchule fur Bilende Kuenste, Hamburg, Germany
1994
Artists in Residence Program, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil
1997 - 1998
M.F.A. School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
Currently lives and works in New York and Rio de Janeiro

Exhibitions

2018
Janaina Tschäpe Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Janaina Tschäpe, Catherine Bastide Gallery, Marseille, France (solo exhibition)
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States (solo exhibition)
Océans - Une vision du monde au rythme des vagues, TBA21-Academy, Les Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
2017
Janaina Tschäpe Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
O Amor no Éter, Xippas Punta del Leste, Uruguay (solo exhibition)
'small scenes.', nca | Nichido Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan (solo exhibition)
Unterirdisch Auch Du, Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo exhibition)
All The Better to See you With: Fairytales Transformed, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Now Wakes the Sea, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Retratos, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil
Small Scenes, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Take a Line for a Walk, NCA Taipei, Taiwan
Terrains of the Body, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Tidalectics, TBA21-Augarten, Vienna, Austria
Wisdom & Nature, Phillips and Le Ciel Foundation, New York
Yes, Nós temos bikini, CCBB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016
Janaina Tschäpe Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Mountain Blanket, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo exhibition)
Pássaro que me engoliu, Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo exhibition)
Auroras: Pequenas Pinturas, São Paulo, Brazil
Day For Night, SHED – Centre D’Art Contemporain de Normandie, Normandy, France
Indelével, Vila Aymores, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Murals for Holbaek Art, Denmark
Non Figuratif – un regain d’interêt? Centre D’art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Nous, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanazawa, Japan
Os Muitos e o Um…, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Random X, Xippas Punta del Este, Uruguay>br> Tertúlia, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
Janaina Tschäpe Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Fernweh, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Until I Come, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Blue Print, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Cono Sur, Xippas Punta del Este, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Flowers for Paul, Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Super Natural, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Teoria del Duende, La Huerta de San Vicente, Grenada, Spain
To the top of the lampshade…, Roos Arts, Rosendale, New York
The Water Knows All My Secrets, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
2014
Janaina Tschäpe Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Contemplating Landscape, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (solo exhibition)
Fern Weh, Xippas Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay (solo exhibition)
Floating Worlds, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Tucson, Arizona (solo exhibition)
The Ghost in Between, Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo exhibition)
A Bola do Artista, OCA Museu da Cidade, São Paulo, Brazil
Blue Print 2.0, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Blue Print 2.0, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Tucson, Arizona
CAM@25: Social Engagement, USF Contemporary Art Museum/CAM, Tampa, Florida
Fruits de la Passion: la Collection du Centre Pompidou, Hyogo Prefectural Museum Of Art, Centre Pompidou, Kobe, Japan
Graphic Studio: Uncommon Practice at USF, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
La femme d’a cote, Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Le Mur: Oeuvres de la collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Made By… Feito Por Brasileiros, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil
Minimal Baroque, Ronnebaeksholm, Naestved, Denmark
New Media Series, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Nothing but good live, Park: Platform for Visual Arts, Tilburg, Netherlands
The Invention of the Beach, Palace of the Arts, São Paulo, Brazil
Total Art: Contemporary Video, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C
2013
Janaina Tschäpe Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Paper Cuts, Louis Vuitton Miami Aventura Mall, Miami, Florida (solo exhibition)
The Forest, The Cloud and The Sea, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium (solo exhibition)
The Ghost in Between, Tierney Gardarin, New York (solo exhibition)
Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou Collection, Cultural Centro Banco do Brasil in Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Cultural Centro Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Expo Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Fluid Motion, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
identityIX, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
See Yourself Sensing, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Post-humanist Desire: Sexuality and Digitality in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Semblance and Guised, Center of Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Radical Terrain, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Fotógrafos da Cena Contemnporânea, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, Brasil
Percursos Contemporos, Contemporary Art Museum of Soracoba, Brazil
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination,Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg, Canada & Glenbow Museum Calgary, Canada

Public Collections

21st Century Museum of Contemporary of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Oslo, Norway
The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Taguchi Fine Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor actuele kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Progressive Corporation, Ohio, USA
Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Literature

2008
Janaina Tschape -CHIMERA-, Irish Museum of Modern Art
2004
“Agua Viva”, Cat. Exp., nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan 2004
2003
Bernard Marcelis, “Janaina Tschäpe”, Art Press, May 2003, p.73
Annabel Wright, “New gallery in Ginza hunts for what it means to be human”, Daily Yomiuri, Art, March 27, 2003, p.20
“On This Side of the Sky”, Cat. Exp. Unesco Salutes Women in Art, Paris, March 2003
L. Yablonsky, 'Putting guts on the outside', Artnews, September, p. 105
M. Bernard, 'Janaina Tschape', Art Press, May, p. 73
A. Demir, 'Contes and Chimeres, Jalouse, no. 66, December, p. 68-70
2002
O. Michelon, 'Icone Gothique, Le Journal des Arts, no. 145, March 22 - April 4
“Stories”, Cat. Exp. , Munich, Haus Der Kunst Museum, March 2002