• Janaina Tschäpe - Statement | CV | Works

Janaina Tschäpe
Born in Munich, Germany, 1973
Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York


Education

1997-1998 Master in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1992-1998 Fine Arts studies, Hochschule fur Bilende Kuenste, Hamburg, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2012
- Janaina Tschape - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona

2011
- Janaina Tschäpe - Instituto Paranaense de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil

2010
- Janaina Tschäpe - Sikkema Jenkins, New York, USA

2009
- Janaina Tschäpe, Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
- Janaina Tschäpe, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil Janaina Tschäpe, Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Japan
- Roger Ballen Foundation for Photography, South Africa. Residency
- Galeria de Cultura Laura Alvim, Impanema, Brazil

2008
- Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan. Residency and Exhibition
- Chimera, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- Janaina Tschäpe, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
- Residency at MoCA, Tucson, USA

2007
- Janaina Tschäpe & Vik Muniz, Galerie Xippas, Athens, Greece
- Janaina Tschäpe, Sikkema, Jenkins & Co., New York City, USA

2006
- Janaina Tschäpe - Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
- Janaina Tschäpe - Artium, Fukuoka Camaleoas - Z Platz, Fukuoka Melantropics - Contemporary Museum of Art St Louis
- Janaina Tschäpe - Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
- Janaina Tschäpe - Paço das Artes, São Paulo
- Janaina Tschäpe, Galeri Bo Bjergaard

2005
- Lacrimacorpus - Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
- Blood, Sea - Catherine Bastide, Bruxelles
- Janaina Tschäpe - Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
- Janaina Tschäpe - UB Art Gallery, Buffalo
- Blood, Sea - Espaço Maria Bonita, São Paulo

2004
- Lacrimacorpus - ACC Galerie, Weimar
- Janaina Tschäpe - Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris
- Blood, Sea - University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
- The Sea and the Mountain - Brent Sikkema, New York, New York

2003
- After the Rain - Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium; Centre d”Art a Albi, Toulouse, France; Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
- Strange and Beautiful - Janaina Tschape and Mariele Neudecker, Sketch Gallery, London, England
- After the Rain - Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
- The Moat and the Moon - Images Au Centre, Le Chateau d”Azay-le-Rideau, France
- New Works, Agua Viva - Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2002
- Exercises - Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
- Dream Sequences - Art Concept, Paris, France
- Sala de Espera - Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Janaina Tschape - Frac Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France

2001
- Sala de Espera - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
- Anatomy - Galeria Camargo Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- He Drowned in Her Eyes as She Called Him to Follow - Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium

2000
- He Drowned in Her Eyes as She Called Him to Follow - Artforum Berlin, Clinica Aesthetica, Berlin, Germany

1999
- Entering The Space That Produces Liquid - Jensen Gallerie, Hamburg, Germany

1998
- Entering The Space That Produces Liquid - Clinica Aesthetica, New York, USA

1997
- A Viagem - Centro Cultural Ricoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1996
- Untitled - Galeria Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro


Group Exhibitions

2009
- NCA Selection - Nichido Contemporary Art, Japan
- ICP Triennial - International Center of Photography, New York
- Mostravideo - Instituto Itau Cultural, Brazil
- A World Without Frames - Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Meet & Cake - Roos Arts, New York
- Strike a Pose - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2008
- Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Japan- September, 2008
- Arte pela Amazônia, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo
- Falling Right Into Place: The Fold in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Museum Haus Lange and Kaiser Wilhelm Museum March 2 - May 25, 2008
- Surreale, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy, September 2008
- Garten Eden: Der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900 - Kunsthalle Emden, Germany and Staedtische Galerie, Bissingen, Germany
- Natureza, Olhar de artista MAC USP- Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Mostra de Video: Sergio Motta Prize for Art and Technology - Museum Reina Sofia
- Projeto dos MultiplosGaleria Arte 21, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Mono Cromaticos, Mario Siqueira Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
- 4th Mostra Latino-Americana de Artes Visuais, Vento Sul, Memorial de Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

2007
- Magnetoscópio: Ciclo de Vídeo-Arte Argentino, Brasileño y Uruguayo, Centro Cultural España – Córdoba (CCEC), Argentina
- Timer 01. Intimá/Intimacy, Milano, Trienniale Bovisa, Italy
- 30th Anniversary Exhibition-Contemporary Collection, Pompidou, Paris, France
- Mutatis, mutandis, extraits de la collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
- Fairy Tale - Contemporary Art and Enchantment, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Walsall, United Kingdom. Traveling to: Chapter, Cardiff, April 28 – June 10, 2007; Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, June 22 - Sept 16, 2007

2006
- Are you experienced? - Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara, Italy. Traveling to: Noua Gallery, Budapest, Hungray and Trafo Multimedia Center, Bucarest, Romania
- Vidéo Tour - La galerie de l'université Paris 8, Le Cube, Paris
- Primeira Pessoa - Exposiçao Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
- Busy Going Crazy - La Maison Rouge, Paris
- Con los ojos del otro: Una muestra de videoartistas brasilieños, Centro Cultral de España, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Art Fab - Exhibition Hall Jean Despas, St. Tropez
- Me, Myself and I - Artist Self-Portraits from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Virgina Beach -Evolving Identies - ROCA, NY

2005
- Alem da Imagem - Instituto Telemar, Rio de Janeiro
- Croiser des Mondes - Jeu de Paume, Paris
- Alguns Libres d’Artista - PROJECTESD, Barcelona
- The White Rose - Brent Sikkema, NYC
- Landscape Confection - Wexner Center, Ohio. Traveling to: Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Orange County Museum of Fine Art, Newport Beach
- Acting Out: The Invented melodrama in Contemporary Art - The University of Iowa Museum of Art. Traveling to: The Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase
- Shifting Worlds - Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fri-Art
- Water, Water Everywhere… - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
- Art Robe - UNESCO, Paris

2004
- Identity II - Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Janaina Tschäpe - The Neistat Brothers and Hiraki Sawa, The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, Creative Time, New York
- Célébration/20 Ans Du Frac Champagne-Ardenne La Collection En Un Volue, Frac Champgne-Ardenne, Reims, France
- Unclosed Stories, Unlimited, Athens

2003
- Ordnung und Chaos - Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Paço das Artes – São Paulo, Brasil
- Unesco Salutes Women in Art - Unesco HQ, Paris, France
- Identity - Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Ambivalence - Z platz Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2002
- Multiplos - Galerie Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brasil
- Récits - Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Mermac
- Interventions - Nuit des Musées, La Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
- Nuites Blanches - Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
- Caminhos do Contemporâneo - Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Morro/Labyrinth - Brasilianisches Kulturinstitut in Deutschland, Berlin
- Morro/Labirinto - Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Stories - Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2001
- Panorama da Arte Brasileira - Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Never Ending Stories – Haus der Kunst, Munchen, Germany
- Rotativa Fase 1 - Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- In Riva al Mare Mai Stanco, Riviera di Chiaia, Napoli, Italy
- Pay Attention Please - MAN, Museo D'arte Nuoro, Italy
- My Generation - 24 Hour Video Art - Atlantis Gallery, London, England
- Uma Geração em Trânsito - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Virgin Territory - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
- Absences - Riksutstillinger, Oslo, Norway

2000
- Personal Permanent Records - Blue Starr, Houston, USA
- Vanitas Personae - Gallery Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
- Sei Artist per Goethe - Eine Italienische Reise; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy; Goethe Institute, Napoli, Italy
- BluePrint - Spark Gallery, New York, USA

1999
- Face Value - Miyako Projects, New York, USA
- Personal Permanent Records - Center of Photography, Woodstock, USA

1998
- Der Brasilianische Blick - The Collection of Gilberto Chateaubriand / Brazilian Contemporary Art, Haus der Kulturen de Welt, Berlin, Germany; Ludwigforum, Aachen, Germany K 3-Kampnagel - Absolventen der HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
- Four Walls Screening - Art in General, New York, USA

1997
- Dimensão da Arte Contemporanea Brasileira - Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1996
- Hamburger Boerse - Studenten der HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
- Diálogo - Institut Goethe, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Viva Brazil - Museo de Arte Contemporâneo, Santiago, Chile


Selected Bibliography

2009
-Bijutsu, February 2009, Vol. 61, No. 918, p.186-187

2008
-idomenee, 2008, Issue 3, p.114-123, p.150-155
-Surreale, cat.exp. Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Italy, p.44-47
-Tokyo Wonder Site 2001 – 2006, 2008, p. 124, 143
-Art_icle, December 2008, Vol.14, p.9

2007
-Geracao da virada, 10+1: os anos recentes da arte braileira = The turn generation, 10+1:Brazilian art in recent years [curadores Agnaldo Farias, Moacir dos Anjos] Sao Paulo: Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2007
-Photo Art: Fotografie im 21. Jahrhundert, Dumont Buchverlag, 2007
-Art Now 2008 Taschen Diary & Art Now Calendar, 2008
-Kato, Gisele, Fala-se de Arte: Planeta Verde, Vogue Brazil, No. 348, August 2007, p. 116-117.
-Agua Viva, Mag, No. 5, 2007, Cover
-Martin, Courtney J., Janaina Tschäpe, Artforum.com, June 2007.

2006
-Bourriaud, Nicolas & Falcone, Paolo, Are you experienced? Fuoriuso '06: Altered States - Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara, Italy.
-Janaina Tschäpe:Melantropics in St. Louis, Artdaily.com, November 21, 2006
-Bousso, Daniella, Janaina Tschäpe, Cat. Exp., São Paulo: Paço das Artes, 2006.
-Campanella, Hortensia, Con los ojos del otro: Una muestra videoartistas brasilieños, Cat. Exp., Montevides: Centro Cultural España, 2006.
-Coelho, Teixeira, Coleçao Itaú Contemporâneo: Arte No Brasil 1981-2006, São Paulo: Itaú Cultural, 2006.

2005
-Molesworth, Helen, Landscape Confection, Cat. Exp., Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University
-Knode, Marilu, Water, Water Everywhere…, Cat. Exp., Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
-Edwards, Kathleen A., Acting Out: Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography, Cat. Exp., Iowa City: The University of Iowa
_Durand, Régis, Croiser des mondes, Cat. Exp., Paris: Jeu de Paume

2004
-Quintin, François, 100 Little Deaths, Cat. Exp., Ardenne/Reims: Le College Éditions, Frac Champagne
-Janaina Tschäpe, Cat. Exp., Tokyo: Nichido Contemporary Art
-Maine, Stephen, Janaina Tschäpe at Brent Sikkema, Art in America, No. 10, November 2004, p. 171

Public Collections

-National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
-21st Century Museum of Contemporary of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
-Banco Espirito Santo, Lisbon, Portugal
-Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
-Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, MAM Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-Collection Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid, Spain
-Caisse des Dépots et Consignations, Paris, France
-Clifford Chance, US LLP, New York, USA
-Fondation la Maison Rouge, Paris, France
-Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
-Images au Centre Collection, Paris, France
-Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
-Frac Champagne Ardennes, Reims, France
-Fondation Belgacom, Brussels, Belgium
-MAM Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
-Moderna Museet, Stokholm, Sweden
-Mudam Musée d'Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg
-Progressive Corporation, Ohio, USA
-SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor actuele kunst, Gent, Belgium
-Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
-Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
-Tokyo Roki Co. Ltd,.Japan
-USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA