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Janaina Tschäpe (born 1973) is a German artist.
Biography
Janaina Tschäpe was born in Munich, Germany, in 1973 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. The artist lives and works in New York since 1997.
The artist explores different medias such as painting, drawing, photography, video and sculpture. The ocean, sea creatures, mermaids, half human creatures, are constantly being revisited by her imaginary, as well as invented landscapes.
While in her earlier works Tschäpe often placed herself within the landscape, she now explores her memories, her inner-images, conjuring her travels and expeditions to a deeply-layered remembrance. Whether through her paintings and drawings, photography or films, Tschäpe reacts to her life experiences in an intense meditative contemplation of the landscape.
Selected solo shows
- 2015: Fernweh, Carlier Gebauer, 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)
- Her work figures in important collections such as those of Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; and Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid, Spain.