Janaina Tschäpe Explained

Janaina Tschäpe (born Munich, Germany, 1973) is a Brazilian/German artist.

Biography

Janaina Tschäpe was born in 1973^[1] in Munich, Germany,^[2] 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. 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.^[3]

Her work is in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Mudam, Luxembourg,^[4] the National Museum of Women in the Arts^[5] and the Taguchi Fine Art Collection, Japan.^[6]

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

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Janaina Tschäpe . RKD . 27 October 2021 . en.
2. Web site: The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation . The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation.
3. Book: ARTnews . 2003 . ARTnews Associates . en.
4. Web site: Janaina Tschäpe . Mudam . en.
5. Web site: Janaina Tschäpe Artist Profile . NMWA.
6. Web site: Janaina Tschäpe Taguchi Art Collection .