Janaina Tschäpe
{{Short description|Brazilian German artist living in New York}}
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Janaina Tschäpe (born Munich, Germany, 1973) is a Brazilian/German artist.
Biography
Janaina Tschäpe was born in 1973{{cite web |title=Janaina Tschäpe |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/241544 |website=RKD |access-date=27 October 2021 |language=en}} in Munich, Germany,{{cite web |title=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/janaina-tschape |website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation}} 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.{{cite book |title=ARTnews |year=2003 |publisher=ARTnews Associates |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=821UAAAAMAAJ&q=janaina+tschape+new+york+1997 |language=en}}
Her work is in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Mudam, Luxembourg,{{cite web |title=Janaina Tschäpe |url=https://www.mudam.com/collection/janaina-tschape |website=Mudam |date=30 June 2023 |language=en}} the National Museum of Women in the Arts{{cite web |title=Janaina Tschäpe {{!}} Artist Profile |url=https://nmwa.org/art/artists/janaina-tschape/ |website=NMWA}} and the Taguchi Fine Art Collection, Japan.{{cite web |title=Janaina Tschäpe {{!}} Taguchi Art Collection |url=https://taguchiartcollection.jp/en/artists/janaina-tschape/}}
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
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External links
- [http://janainatschape.net Official site]
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Category:21st-century German women artists
Category:German women painters
Category:German women sculptors
Category:21st-century German painters
Category:21st-century German sculptors
Category:School of Visual Arts alumni