Biography:
Janaina Tschäpe has employed the female body as her muse, creating universes of polymorphous landscapes, embryonic forms and ambiguous characters.
Tschäpe's drawings, photographs, films and installations seek to give form to the trance of art making, portraying not a dream world, but the sensation of being
in one. Tschäpe was born in Germany and raised in São Paolo, Brazil. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Hochschule fur Bilende Kuenste, Hamburg
and her Master in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Tschäpe's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the world including
Tokyo, São Paolo, London, and Berlin. Recent projects include The 59th Minute with Creative Time in Times Square, New York, the Centre d'Art a Albi in Tolouse,
the Fotomuseum in Winthethur, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. Tschäpe lives and works in New York.
Born in Munich, Germany, 1973. Lives and works in New York, USA and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Education
1997/98 Master in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1992/98 Fine Arts studies, Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany
1994 Artists in Residence program, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil
Upcoming exhibitions
Croiser des Mondes, Jeu de Paume, Paris, October
Traveling to: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, July 23-September 18
Orange County Museum of Art, February 5-May 7, 2006
Solo Exhibitions 2005
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Bruxelles
Gallery Carlier Gebauer
Blood, Sea, Espaço Maria Bonita, Sao Paolo
UB Art Gallery. Buffalo, New York, Curator, Sandra Firmin
2004
The Sea and the Mountain, Brent Sikkema, New York
Blood, Sea, University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2003
After the Rain - Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
Chassé-Croisé - Janaina Tschäpe and François Curlet -
Centre d'Art d'Albi, Toulouse, France
Strange and Beautiful - Janaina Tschäpe and Mariele Neudecker - Sketch Gallery, London
After the Rain - Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
The Moat and the Moon - Images Au Centre, Le Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, France
After the Rain - Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Exercises - Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Dream Sequences - Art Concept, Paris, France
Sala de Espera - Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Janaina Tschäpe - Frac Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France
2001
Sala de Espera - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid,Spain
Anatomy - Galeria Camargo Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
He Drowned in Her Eyes as She Called Him to Follow Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2000
He Drowned in Her Eyes as She Called Him to Follow
Artforum Berlin, Clinica Aesthetica, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions 2005
Brent Sikkema, NYC
Landscape Confection, Wexner Center, Ohio
Water, Water Everywhere…, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
Lacrimacorpus, Die Akte Weimar, Janaina Tschäpe and Vik Muniz, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
Acting Out:The Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Art, the University of Iowa Museum of Art.
Shifting Worlds - Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland, Art-Robe, Unesco, Paris
Landscape Confection, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
Shifting Worlds, Janaina Tschäpe, Teresa Chen, Zineb Sedira, Fri- Art, Centre d'Art Contemporain
de Fribourg
2004
Janaina Tschäpe, Thessia Machado, Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimaraes,
Valeska Soares, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
Fémina, group exhibition, Galerie les filles du calvaire, Paris, Bruxelles
Janaina Tschäpe, The Neistat Brothers, and Hiraki Sawa, The 59th Minute: Video
Art on the Times Square Astrovision
Unclosed Stories, Unlimited, Athens
Group show, Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo
Group Show, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Group Show, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
2003
Paço das Artes - São Paulo, Brasil
Unesco Salutes Women in Art - Unesco HQ, Paris, France
Identity - Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Drawing Show - Deustch Bank, New York, USA
Ambivalence - Z platz Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Ordnung und Chaos - Fotomuseum, Winterthurs, Switzerland
4ª Bienal do Mercosul - Porto Alegre, Brazil
2002
Multiplos - Galerie Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Récits - Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Mermac
Interventions - Nuit des Musées, La Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-
Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Nuites Blanches - Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Caminhos do Contemporâneo - Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Morro/Labyrinth - Brasilianisches Kulturinstitut in Deutschland, Berlin
Morro/Labirinto - Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stories - Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2001
Panorama da Arte Brasileira - Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museu
de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de
Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Never Ending Stories - Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Rotativa Fase 1 - Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
In Riva al Mare Mai Stanco, Riviera di Chiaia, Napoli, Italy
Pay Attention Please- MAN, Museo D'arte Nuoro, Italy
My Generation, 24 Hour Video Art - Atlantis Gallery, London, England.
Uma Geração em Trânsito - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Virgin Territory - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
Absences - Riksutstillinger, Oslo, Norway
More adventurous in scope than other comparable compendiums, Photo Art is a vast critical survey of contemporary conceptual-oriented photography. It particularly addresses the work of artists emerging in Western and Eastern Europe--many of whom will be new to American audiences--and presents critical contexts for their work in accompanying essays. Gathering more than 120 image-makers from around the globe, this luscious compendium reads like an international art fair between covers, with the work of artists to watch now and in the future, from established figures to representatives of the newest generation. Among the artists featured here are Roy Arden, the Atlas Group, Seung Woo Back, Richard Billingham, Gerard Byrne, Claude Closky, Natalie Czech, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Ruud van Empel, J.H. Engstrom, Charles Freger,...
Cette exposition ressemble à un théâtre où, de la mise en scène aux personnages, tous les rôles sont tenus par des femmes. L’espace scénique prend plusieurs formes : l’intérieur d’une maison bourgeoise, les pièces d’une demeure abandon- née dont les histoires sourdent des murs, l’atelier d’une peintre ou le studio d’une photographe. Les héroïnes jouent dans l’ombre de rues bordées d’immeubles, dans celle d’un jardin arboré, face à un miroir ou au creux d’une rivière.
Le registre est plutôt celui de la tragédie. Cependant la fin de l’histoire reste en suspens et l’interprétation est laissée libre, à l’appréciation du spectateur. Ici, les héroïnes ne succombent pas à la passion qui de...
Once Upon a Time features a selection of video installations and single-channel works by Francis Alÿs, Cao Fei, Pierre Huyghe, Aleksandra Mir, Mika Rottenberg, and Janaina Tschäpe from the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum that explore this practice in contemporary art.
Mika Rottenberg Dough, 2006, vignette : © 2011 Mika Rottenberg, Courtesy Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
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Aquatica Exotica
The universe created by artist Janaina Tschäpe beckons one into a parallel world of ambiguous scale – indeterminate in both time and space. Reminiscent of Voltaire's Micromegas, the fantastical scenes she conjures collapse boundaries and fluidly mingle in a continuum of evolution and transformation. Recurring gestures become characters in a grand opera that touches on evolution, gender, and the construction of myth and history. In the end, Tschäpe's work begs the big picture questions that tease us all. As Gauguin put it, “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”
Blood, Sea
The spring-fed grotto at the South Florida theme park provides the scenographic impetus for this grand production, but is in no way the origin of game. The sea maiden mythologies that inform Blood, Sea...