
Winter Painting IV, 2020
casein and watercolor crayon on canvas
70 1/4 x 80 1/8 inches (178.4 x 203.5 cm)
signed and dated by the artist, verso
JTs-P.20.4622
Carried by the Storm, 2020
casein and watercolor crayon on canvas
77 1/8 x 92 1/4 inches (195.9 x 234.3 cm)
signed and dated by the artist, verso
JTs-P.20.4623
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
Kleine Nachtmusik, 2018
casein and watercolor pencil on canvas
140 1/4 x 113 inches (356.2 x 287 cm)
JTs-P.18.4338
A Day's Color and Other Thoughts XI, 2018
watercolor and watercolor pencil on paper
paper: 40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
framed: 43 1/4 x 62 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (109.9 x 159.4 x 5.7 cm)
signed and dated by the artist, verso
JTs-WP.18.4381
A Day's Color and Other Thoughts X, 2018
watercolor and watercolor pencil on paper
paper: 40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
framed: 43 1/4 x 62 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (109.9 x 159.4 x 5.7 cm)
signed and dated by the artist, verso
JTs-WP.18.4380
Spaziergänge I, 2018
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
paper: 40 x 56 1/8 inches (101.6 x 142.6 cm)
framed: 44 1/4 x 60 1/8 x 2 1/4 inches (112.4 x 152.7 x 5.7 cm)
signed and dated by the artist, verso
JTs-WP.18.4305
Spaziergänge II, 2018
watercolor and colored pencil on paper
paper: 40 x 56 1/8 inches (101.6 x 142.6 cm)
framed: 44 1/4 x 60 1/8 x 2 1/4 inches (112.4 x 152.7 x 5.7 cm)
signed and dated by the artist, verso
JTs-WP.18.4306
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 - "Les Nymphéas" de Claude Monet." Musée d'Orsay. January 15, 2021.
A conversation with JANAINA TSCHÄPE. KABINETT. November 2020.
Janaina Tschäpe: HumidGray and ShadowLake 2018
BLOUIN ARTINFO, Oct 31, 2013