Janaina Tschäpe

Brazilian German artist living in New York

Janaina Tschäpe
Born	1973 (age 50–51)

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.^[2] 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,^[2] 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

References

^ "Janaina Tschäpe". RKD. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation". The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation.
^ ARTnews. ARTnews Associates. 2003.
^ "Janaina Tschäpe". Mudam.
^ "Janaina Tschäpe | Artist Profile". NMWA.
^ "Janaina Tschäpe | Taguchi Art Collection".