Janaina Tschäpe (born Munich, Germany, 1973) is a Brazilian/German artist.
Biography
Janaina Tschäpe was born in 1973
in
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
, 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
The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
History
This school was started by Silas ...
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, 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 openi ...
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
21st-century women painters
21st-century women sculptors