Janaina Tschäpe (born 1973) is a Brazilian and German artist.
Biography
Janaina Tschäpe was born in 1973
in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
, Germany,
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.
Her work is in the
Guggenheim Museum, New York,
the
Mudam
The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art (french: Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean), abbreviated to Mudam, is a museum of modern art in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The museum stands on the site of the old Fort Thüngen, on the so ...
, Luxembourg, the
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openin ...
and the Taguchi Fine Art Collection, Japan.
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
External links
Official site
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21st-century German women artists
German women painters
German women sculptors
German video artists
1973 births
Living people
Women video artists
21st-century German painters
21st-century German sculptors
Artists from Munich
School of Visual Arts alumni