
MorningGreen, 2018
casein and watercolor pencil on canvas
112 x 164 inches (284.5 x 416.6 cm)
JTs-P.18.4340
RoseMadder, 2018
casein and watercolor pencil on canvas
81 3/4 x 128 inches (207.6 x 325.1 cm)
JTs-P.18.4335
Kleine Nachtmusik, 2018
casein and watercolor pencil on canvas
140 1/4 x 113 inches (356.2 x 287 cm)
JTs-P.18.4338
ShadowLake, 2018
casein and watercolor pencil on canvas
138 x 112 1/2 inches (350.5 x 285.8 cm)
JTs-P.18.4336
TicklemePink and PineGreen, 2018
casein and watercolor pencil on canvas
109 1/4 x 134 3/4 inches (277.5 x 342.3 cm)
JTs-P.18.4337
HumidGray, 2018
casein and watercolor pencil on canvas
109 x 187 inches (276.9 x 475 cm)
JTs-P.18.4334
ForestRed, 2018
casein and watercolor pencil on canvas
109 x 134 1/4 inches (276.9 x 341 cm)
JTs-P.18.4341
The Girl and The Swan, 2017
casein and colored pencil on canvas
80 x 58 inches (203.2 x 147.3 cm)
JTs-P.17.4257
Underneath the Stars, 2017
casein and colored pencil on canvas
77 x 90 1/2 inches (195.6 x 229.9 cm)
JTs-P.17.4259
Pusteblume, 2017
casein and colored pencil on canvas
77 1/2 x 92 inches (196.9 x 233.7 cm)
JTs-P.17.4270
Hinter den Bergen, 2017
casein and colored pencil on canvas
76 x 90 inches (193 x 228.6 cm)
JTs-P.17.4262
Enchanted, 2017
casein and colored pencil on canvas
58 x 58 1/2 inches (147.3 x 148.6 cm)
JTs-P.17.4261
Summer Untitled 1, 2017
watercolor on paper
30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
JTs-WP.17.4264
Summer Untitled 2, 2017
watercolor on paper
30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
JTs-WP.17.4265
Summer Untitled 3, 2017
watercolor on paper
30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
JTs-WP.17.4266
Mina (Love), 2017
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
40 x 35 inches (101.6 x 88.9 cm)
JTs-WP.17.4263
Wave, 2017
watercolor on paper
40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
JTs-WP.17.4194
France Summer III, 2017
watercolor on paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
JTs-WP.17.4207
France Summer IV, 2017
watercolor on paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
JTs-WP.17.4208
France Summer XIII, 2017
watercolor on paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
JTs-WP.17.4217
Now Wakes the Sea: Contemporary Art and the Ocean, The Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, 2017
Fernweh 1, 2015, mixed media on paper, 60 x 96.2 inches
TBA21–Augarten - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Austria, 2017
A Fictionary of Corals and Jellies (2017) Leporello, 11.8 x 315 inches, colored pencil on paper
TBA21–Augarten - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Austria, 2017
(Detail) A Fictionary of Corals and Jellies (2017) Leporello, 11.8 x 315 inches, colored pencil on paper
Terrains of the Body, White Chapel Gallery, London, UK, 2016
Capri Intérieur, from the series He drowned in her eyes as she called him to follow, 1999, 34 x 50 inch C-print
Super Natural, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2015
right wall: Aude 2, from the series The Moat and the Moon, 2003, 40 x 50 inch cibachrome
left wall: Livia 2, from the series After the Rain, 2003, 40 x 50 inch cibachrome
Super Natural, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2015
left wall: 4 works from Aquatica, 2014, 16 x 24 inch digital c-prints
right wall: Aude 2, from the series The Moat and the Moon, 2003, 40 x 50 inch cibachrome
Fruits de la Passion: La Collection du Centre Pompidoum The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 2014
Blood, Sea (2004) | Four channel video installation. Duration: 13:48 each, with sound.
Fruits de la Passion: La Collection du Centre Pompidoum The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 2014
Blood, Sea (2004) | Four channel video installation. Duration: 13:48 each, with sound.
Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, and Performance, Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Lacrimacorpus (2004) | Single channel video installation. Duration: 03:36, with sound.
Elles, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2009-2011)
Blood, Sea (2004) | Four channel video installation. Duration: 13:48 each, with sound.
Elles, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2009-2011)
Blood, Sea (2004) | Four channel video installation. Duration: 13:48 each, with sound.
Untitled Cut Out, New York City, 2017
permanent indoor installation
Laminated wood sculpture
126 x 144 inches
Untitled Cut Out, New York City, 2017
permanent installation
laminated wood sculpture
126 x144 inches
Mina Sleeping, Holbaek, Denmark, 2016
permanent outdoor installation
394 x 236 inches
(detail) Mina Sleeping, Holbaek, Denmark, 2017
permanent outdoor installation
394 x 236 inches
Gush, 2014
Pigment on plaster
Temporary Commission
96 x 576 inches
Matarazzo Hopsital, Sao Paulo
Gush, 2014
Pigment on plaster
temporary commission, Matrazzo Hospital, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Forest Spirits II, University of South Florida, 2011
Guerra acrylic wall paint
permanent indoor commission
184.8 x 396 inches
Four Seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn), 2014
Casein and colored pencil on canvas
4 canvases, each measured 160 x 60 inches
total dimension 160 x 240 inches
Flatland, 2012
casein and colored pencil on canvas
114 x 157 inches
Spiders, Monkeys and Spirits, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2010
oil on canvas
four panels measuring 79 x 118 inches each, 79 x 472 inches overall
(detail) Spiders, Monkeys and Spirits, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2010
oil on canvas
four panels measuring 79 x 118 inches each, 79 x 472 overall
Janaina Tschäpe was born in Munich, Germany in 1973. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg and her Master in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Throughout her twenty-plus year career Tschäpe’s multidisciplinary body of work has encompassed painting, drawing, photography, video and sculpture.
In her practice, Tschäpe often incorporates themes of aquatic, plant and human life to suggest dreamlike, abstract landscapes that blur perceptions of illusion and reality. Referencing interests in myth, morphology and the mysteries of aquatic states, she has developed a distinctive language of abstraction in which organic forms are imbued with a remarkable quality of luminosity. Her distinctive compositions convey a sensation of movement, their biomorphic shapes and gestural marks functioning as emotive signifiers of her interior thoughts.
Her carefully nuanced canvases and drawings include imagery evocative of the natural world suggesting growth, transition and metamorphosis. Tschäpe’s paintings in particular contain innumerable layers of information accrued through the meticulous application of media including watercolor, casein, colored pencil and pastel. There exists in her work a dynamic tension between the loose, luscious forms that pervade the canvas and the precise systems of markings that often overlay and unify these compositions.
Janaina Tschäpe lives and works in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona; Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Japan; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, and the Contemporary Museum of Art, St Louis. She has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at venues including The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland; NCA Taipei, Taiwan; Whitechapel Gallery, London; TBA21-Augarten, Vienna, Austria; CCBB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2017); Centre D’Art Contemporain de Normandie, France; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanazawa, Japan; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2016); Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Pratt Manhattan Gallery (2015); OCA Museu da Cidade, São Paulo; Kunsthal Kade, Netherlands; Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil; Ronnebaeksholm, Denmark (2014); Cultural Centro Banco do Brasil in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts; and Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2013).
Her work can be found in important public collections including Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others. She has completed public commissions in New York City; Miami Beach, Florida; São Paulo, Brazil; and Holbæk, Denmark.
Janaina Tschäpe: HumidGray and ShadowLake 2018
BLOUIN ARTINFO, Oct 31, 2013