JANAINA TSCHÄPE
German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe has a multidisciplinary practice which spans painting, drawing, photography, performance, video art, sculpture, murals and installations. Drawing from the natural world, Tschäpe presents dreamlike abstract landscapes inspired by memory and myth. Balancing fluidity with precision, her work is imbued with a universality that reflects the various topographies she has travelled through or calls home, from Germany, Brazil and America to beyond.
Over the last decade, Tschäpe has dedicated her practice almost exclusively to painting and drawing. In her compositions, colours bleed and pool into one another, as if in a state of osmosis. Rendered with mixed-media, including oil paint, watercolour, casein and crayon, organic forms seem to ebb and flow with the movement of water. ‘Underwater has always been very fascinating for me,’ the artist notes. ‘The way you lose dimensions a little bit: your body underwater becomes a different shape, it elongates, it loses perspective, it gets light.’ These biomorphic shapes can be traced back to the artist’s earlier body of surreal photographs, videos and performance pieces, which situated the body in relationship to coastal landscapes. Traversing wonder, melancholy, mystery and joy, Tschäpe’s sprawling networks of colour and form abound with emotional resonance.
‘Inspired by the natural world and conjured from her memories of specific locations, Tschäpe’s vigorous abstractions envelop the viewer. Their commanding presence and sumptuous palette draw one deeper into the thicket of loose, decisively orchestrated gestures that comprise her work. Each of Tschäpe’s paintings serves as a field for reflection and introspection, an alchemic laboratory of sorts – perhaps an explorer’s ship at sea – that allows the artist to transform her environmental awareness and emotional psyche into a vision of unchartered territory, the resulting work a map previously undrawn, a land hitherto unseen.’
S. Kelly and J. Grove, ‘Introduction’, in Janaina Tschäpe, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2024, p. 6
Image: Sun, masked and dancing, 2025, oil and oil stick on linen, 279.4 x 203.2 cm.; 110 x 80 in. Photo: def image
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1973
Born in Munich, Germany
1992–1997
B.F.A., Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
1994
Residency at Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador
1997–1998
M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York
2013
Residency at TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Galápagos
2014
Residency at TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Fiji
2016
Residency at Rønnebæksholm, Næstved
2023
Residency at Bordallo Pinheiro, Porto
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Des Moines Art Center
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
George Mason University, Fairfax
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Minas Gerais
Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
Lowe Art Museum, Miami
The Mint Museum, Charlotte
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
Progressive Corporation Art Collection, Ohio
S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
Société Générale Art Collection, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo
TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Conversations with the Sea
Hastings Contemporary
2025
A gush of wind (Atemraum)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2024
A Sky Filled with Clouds and the Smell of Blood Oranges
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
2023
Estrelas conversando em voz alta
Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre
Soy mi próprio paisaje
CAC Málaga
Something Like the Sun
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Restless Moraine
Sean Kelly LA, Los Angeles
2022
Wandelstern
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
FIRE just sparkles in the sky
Carpintaria, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro
2021
Balancing into the Deep
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Janaina Tschäpe & Ursula Reuter Christiansen: Das Unheimliche
Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2020
Between the Sky and the Water
Sarasota Art Museum
Contemporary counterpoint / Janaina Tschäpe
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
2019
Mapping the Unattainable
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo
Mapping the Undertow under a Pale Blue Sky
Nichido Contemporary Art, Taipei
2018
HumidGray and ShadowLake
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Halbschatten
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Marseille
2017
O Amor no Eter
Xippas Punta del Este
‘small scenes.’
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Unterirdisch auch du
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
2016
Mountain Blanket
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Pássaro que me engoliu
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2015
Fernweh
Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
Until I Come
Galerie Xippas, Paris
2014
Contemplating Landscape
Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Fernweh
Xippas Montevideo
Floating Worlds
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
The Ghost in Between
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2013
The Ocean Within
Louis Vuitton Miami Aventura Mall
The Forest, the Cloud and the Sea
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
The Ghost in Between
Tierney Gardarin, New York
2012
Endless
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Entschlüpft
Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva
Flatland
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Shaping Fluid
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
2011
Dream Particles
Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
Entschlüpft
Galerie Xippas, Paris
2010
Acqua Alta
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2009
New Works
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Roger Ballen Foundation for Photography, Johannesburg
Galeria de Cultura Laura Alvim, Ipanema
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art
2008
Chimera
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Dragoons
Galerie Xippas, Paris
Moon Blossom
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2007
Janaina Tschäpe & Vik Muniz
Galerie Xippas, Athens
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2006
Blood Sea & Lacrimacorpus
Tokyo Wonder Site
Camaleãos
Z Platz Museum, Fukuoka
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
Melantropics
Contemporary Museum of Art, St. Louis
The Fables of the Future Weave in Water
Artium, Fukuoka
2005
Blood Sea
Espaço Maria Bonita, São Paulo
Blood Sea
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
University of Buffalo Art Gallery
Lacrimacorpus
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Lacrimacorpus II
Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
2004
Blood Sea
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
Lacrimacorpus
ACC Galerie, Weimar
The Sea and the Mountain
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
2003
After the Rain
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
After the Rain
Centre d’Art à Albi, Toulouse
After the Rain
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Agua Viva
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Strange and Beautiful: Janaina Tschäpe and Mariele Neudecker
Sketch Gallery, London
The Moat and the Moon
Images au Centre, Le Château d’Azay-le-Rideau
2002
Dream Sequences
Art Concept, Paris
Exercises
Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Sala de Espera
Paço das Artes, São Paulo
2001
Anatomy
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
He Drowned in Her Eyes as She Called Him to Follow
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Sala de Espera
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
2000
He Drowned in Her Eyes as She Called Him to Follow
Clinica Aesthetica, Berlin
1999
Entering the Space That Produces Liquid
Galerie Jensen
1998
Entering the Space That Produces Liquid
Clinica Aesthetica, New York
1997
A viagem
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
1996
Untitled
Galeria Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Aberto/05
Casa Bola, São Paulo
The Weimar Collection
ACC Galerie Weimar
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2025
Moby Dick – The Whale. The Story of a Myth from Antiquity to Contemporary Art
Palazzo Ducale, Genova
Faktura / Tektonika
Sean Kelly, New York
Taguchi Art Collection Vol. II
Takahashi City Nariwa Museum of Art
land marks
Pace, Los Angeles
Blinded by the Light
Casa da Cultura de Comporta
Terraphilia
TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid
Uncanny
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Lucid Dreams
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Becoming Ocean: A Social Conversation about the Ocean
Villa Arson, Nice Biennial of Arts
2024
Micro Salon
CADAN (Contemporary Art Dealers Association Nippon), Tokyo
Lucid Dreams
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition
Brooklyn Museum, New York
How Did You Come into the World?
Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art
Painting the Infinite: Power & Process
Bode, Berlin
Aberto 3
Campo Belo, São Paulo
Artists’ Picks
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
2023
Conversations between Collections
Instituto Casa Roberto Marinho, Rio de Janeiro
Waking Life
Amanita Gallery, New York
The Nature of Art
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Florida
The Big Picture
Night Gallery, Los Angeles
50e Anniversaire de la Galerie comme à la Belle Époque – Paris, Tokyo, Rio, Taipei – Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Pin-Ling Huang, Vik Muniz, Janaina Tschäpe, Ken Yashiki 23Galerie Nichido Paris
Taguchi Art Collection
Kagoshima City Museum of Art
Deep Deep Down
Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Summer Festival Taguchi Art Collection
Kagoshima City Museum of Art
Encounters: Works from the TBA21 Collection
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Picasso Untitled
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2022
Manjar nascente
Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro
Face-à-face
Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
I Could Eat You
Casa da Cultura de Comporta
Abundant Futures: Works from the TBA21 Collection
Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía (C3A), Córdoba
Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville
Earth Works
Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis
25 Years of the Mudam Collection
Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Novos Horizontes – Inside Brazil’s Contemporary Art Scene, Vol. 1
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Go Through the Night: Works From the Antoine de Galbert Collection
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
2021
Arte contemporânea brasileira na Coleção Andrea e José Olympio Pereira
CCBB Rio de Janeiro
Force majeure
Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston
O Canto do Bode
Casa da Cultura da Comporta
Photo on View
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
Nature Loves to Hide
Lévy Gorvy, Palm Beach
2020
Day for (Your) Night
Le SHED, Centre d’art contemporain de Normandie
Dia, noite, noite
Andréa and José Olympio Pereira Collection, Galpão da Lapa, São Paulo
It Is All about WATER
The Storefront Gallery, Bellport, New York
Life during Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
Schaulager II: Janaina Tschäpe, Jannis Kounellis, Georg Baselitz, Erwin Wurm
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
Unbreakable: Women in Glass
Fondazione Berengo, Murano, Venice
2019
Shifts in Time
Over the Influence, Los Angeles
#tbt
Carpintaria, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro
Creation of a Moment
KaviarFactory, Henningsvær
dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels
Galerie Xippas, Paris
The Gifts of Tony Podesta
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
Glasstress
Fondazione Berengo, Murano, Venice
Live Dangerously
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Memory of the Sublime: The Landscape in the XXI Century
Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona
2018
A arte delas
Marina da Glória, Rio de Janeiro
Dialéctica
OM.art, Rio de Janeiro
Crónicas del Sur
Xippas Montevideo
Oceans: Imagining a Tidalectic Worldview
Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik
Océans – Une vision du monde au rythme des vagues
TBA21-Academy, Les Fresnoy, Tourcoing
2017
All the Better to See You With: Fairytales Transformed
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Now Wakes the Sea
The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Retratos
Galeria Millan, São Paulo
Small Scenes
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Take a Line for a Walk
Nichido Contemporary Art, Taipei
Terras of the Body
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Tidalectics
TBA21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Wisdom & Nature
Phillips and Le Ciel Foundation, New York
Yes, Nós temos bikini
CCBB Rio de Janeiro
2016
Auroras: Pequenas pinturas
São Paulo
Day for Night
Le SHED, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Normandie, Normandy
Indelével
Villa Aymoré, Rio de Janeiro
Murals for Holbæk Art
Non figuratif, un regain d’intérêt?
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac
Nous
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Os muitos e o um...
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
Random X
Xippas Punta del Este
Tertúlia
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
2015
Blue Print
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Cono Sur
Xippas Punta del Este
Flowers for Paul
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
Super Natural
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Teoría del duende
La Huerta de San Vicente, Granada
To the Top of the Lampshade...
Roos Arts, Rosendale, New York
The Water Knows All My Secrets
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
2014
A bola do artista
OCA – Museu da Cidade de São Paulo
Blue Print 2.0
Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort
Blue Print 2.0
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
CAM@25: Social Engagement
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
Fruits de la passion: La Collection du Centre Pompidou
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
Graphic Studio: Uncommon Practice at USF
Tampa Museum of Art
La Femme d’à côté
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris
Le Mur: Oeuvres de la collection Antoine de Galbert
La Maison Rouge, Paris
Made by... Feito por brasileiros
Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo
Minimal Baroque
Rønnebæksholm, Næstved
New Media Series
Saint Louis Art Museum
Nothing but Good Live
PARK – Platform for Visual Arts, Tilburg
The Invention of the Beach
Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Total Art: Contemporary Video
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2013
Art Rio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou Collection
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, travelled to:
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Fluid Motion
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
identity IX
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
See Yourself Sensing
Natalie and James Thompson Gallery at San Jose State University
Post-humanist Desire: Sexuality and Digitality in Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
Semblance and Guised
Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2012
Coleção BGA
MuBE, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo
Espelho refletido
Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
Winnipeg Art Gallery, travelled to:
Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
Fotógrafos da cena contemporânea
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da USP, São Paulo
Percursos contemporâneos
Contemporary Art Museum of Sorocaba
Radical Terrain
Rubin Museum of Art, New York
Screen Festival, Barcelona
Sérgio Porto 1983–1997: Uma exposição – Arquivo
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
The European Cultural City of the Year
Fábrica ASA, Guimarães, Portugal
The Eye of the Collector
Manuel de Santaren Collection, MAMbo – Villa delle Rose, Bologna
2011
Artists’ Film Screening: Choreography for Camera
Tramway Contemporary Arts Centre, Glasgow
Destricted
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Fotógrafos da cena contemporânea
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da USP, São Paulo
Kreemart
Haunch of Venison Gallery, London
New Perspectives – New York
Brand New Gallery, Milan
Next – TWS 10 Years!
Tokyo Wonder Site
NY: New Perspectives
Brand New Gallery, Milan
Once upon a Time
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Pictures Are Words-Not-Known
Lishui Museum of Photography
She Devil
Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome
2010
2000–2010, Celebrating 10 Years
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
A New Form of Memory
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art
ArtFact Paris: Best Of
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
Bee Natural
Maison Guerlain, Paris
Brave New World
Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Busan Biennale: Living in Evolution
Busan Museum of Art
Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil
New Museum, New York
De l’ombre et du rêve
Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours
Glamour
Inspiracje International Festival of Visual Arts, Szczecin
Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, and Performance
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, travelled to:
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Identity 6 – Body It!
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
La Forêt de mon rêve
Galerie d’Art du Conseil Général, Aix-en-Provence
Le Bénéfice du doute
Hôtel Fontfreyde Centre Photographique, Clermont-Ferrand
Made in Tucson, Born in Tucson, Live in Tucson
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
Nuits des Musées
Musée de la Chasse, Paris
ShanShui 2010: H2O
Beijing Center for the Arts
The Bug, The Spider and The Butterfly
Roos Arts, Rosendale, New York
The Exquisite Landscape
International Center of Photography, New York
Underwater
Towner Eastbourne, travelled to:
Spacex, Exeter;
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull;
Bluecoat, Liverpool;
Tullie House, Carlisle
Who Are You Peter?
Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris
2009
After Utopia
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
A World without Frames
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da USP, São Paulo
Elles
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Forces
Portimão Museum and TEMPO Theatre Gallery
ICP Triennial
International Center of Photography, New York
Mostravideo
Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
Meet & Cake
Roos Arts, Rosendale
NCA Selection
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Nus [Nudes]
Galeria Fortes Vilaça & Galeria Bergamin, São Paulo
Saccharum Ba
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador
Strike a Pose
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2008
4a Mostra Latino-Americana de Artes Visuais
VentoSul, Memorial de Curitiba, Parana
Art(e)mericana Latina
3e été culturel de la ville de Saint-Tropez
Arte pela Amazonia
Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Bordando arte
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
Bridge over Brazil and Yokohama
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery
Falling Right into Place: The Fold in Contemporary Art
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
Garten Eden: Der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900
Kunsthalle Emden, travelled to:
Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
Monocromáticos
Mário Sequeira – Galeria de Arte, Lisbon
Mostra de Video: Sergio Motta Prize for Art and Technology
Museum Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
My Space: What Does “Public” Mean?
Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples
Natureza: Olhar do artista
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da USP, São Paulo
Projeto dos multiplos
Galeria Arte 21, Rio de Janeiro
Surreale
Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan
2007
30th Anniversary Exhibition – Contemporary Collection
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fairy Tale: Contemporary Art and Enchantment
The New Art Gallery Walsall, travelled to:
Chapter, Cardiff; Leeds Art Gallery
Magnetoscópio: Ciclo de vídeo-arte argentino, brasileño y uruguayo
Centro Cultural España-Córdoba
Mundo animal
Escola São Paulo
Mutatis, mutandis: Extraits de la collection Antoine de Galbert
La Maison Rouge, Paris
Timer 01. Intimá/Intimacy
Triennale Bovisa, Milan
2006
Are You Experienced?
Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara, travelled to:
WAX, Budapest; Galeria Nouă, Bucharest ;
MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
Art Fab
Exhibition Hall Jean Despas, Saint-Tropez
Busy Going Crazy
La Maison Rouge, Paris
Con los ojos del otro: Una muestra de videoartistas brasilieños
Centro Cultural de España en Montevideo
Evolving Identities
Rockland Center for the Arts (ROCA), West Nyack
Me, Myself and I: Artist Self-Portraits from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach
Primeira pessoa
Exposiçao Itaú Cultural, São Paulo
Vidéo tour
Le Cube, Paris
2005
Acting Out: The Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Art
University of Iowa Museum of Art, travelled to:
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
Além da imagem
Instituto Telemar, Rio de Janeiro
Alguns libres d’artista
ProjecteSD, Barcelona
Art robe
UNESCO, Paris
Como é doce morrer no mar
Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Dragão do Mar, Ceará
Croiser des mondes
Jeu de Paume, Paris
Jogo da memória
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Landscape Confection
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, travelled to:
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston;
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Shifting Worlds
Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
The White Rose
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Water, Water Everywhere...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
2004
Bazar de verão
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Célébration! 20 ans du FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Identity II
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Janaina Tschäpe, The Neistat Brothers, and Hiraki Sawa: The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision
Creative Time, New York
Paralela 2004
São Paulo
Soirée prospectif cinéma
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Unclosed Stories
Unlimited, Athens
2003
Ambivalence
Z Platz Museum, Fukuoka
Identity
Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Metacorpos
Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Ordnung und Chaos
Fotomuseum, Winterthur
UNESCO Salutes Women in Art
UNESCO, Paris
2002
Caminhos do Contemporâneo
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Interventions
Nuit des Musées, La Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Morro/Labyrinth
Brasilianisches Kulturinstitut in Deutschland, Berlin
Morro/Labirinto
Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Multiplos
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Nuits blanches
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Récits
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac
Stories
Haus der Kunst, Munich
2001
Absences
Riksutstillinger, Oslo
In riva al mare mai stanco
Riviera di Chiaia, Naples
My Generation: 24 Hour Video Art
Atlantis Gallery, London
Never Ending Stories
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Panorama da arte brasileira
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, travelled to:
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador;
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Pay Attention, Please
Museo d’Arte Provincia de Nuoro
Rotativa Fase 1
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Uma geração em trânsito
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Virgin Territory
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2000
Blue Print
Spark Gallery, New York
Personal Permanent Records
Blue Starr, Houston
Artisti per Goethe. Viaggio in Italia
Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma, travelled to:
Goethe-Institut, Naples
Vanitas personae
Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
1999
Face Value
Miyako Projects, New York
Personal Permanent Records
Center for Photography, Woodstock
1998
Der brasilianische Blick: The Collection of Gilberto Chateaubriand
Brazilian Contemporary Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, travelled to:
Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Four Walls Screening
Art in General, New York
K3-Kampnagel
Absolventen der HFBK Hamburg
1997
Dimensão da arte contemporânea brasileira
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da USP, São Paulo
1996
Diálogo
Goethe-Institut, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Hamburger Börse
Studenten der HFBK, Hamburg
Viva Brazil
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago
1995
Corpo sobre corpo
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Kulturelle Vereinigung
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Metrópolis e periferia
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Objetos e instalações
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador
Salão de artes plásticas
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador
1994
Ausência
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador
Salão de artes plásticas
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs
D. Von Drathen, Janaina Tschäpe, Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2025
J. Grove, ed., Janaina Tschäpe, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2024
L. Duarte and G. Celant, Janaina Tschäpe: Flatland, Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2021
Others
L. Duarte, Estrelas Conversando em Voz Alta, exh. cat., Porto Alegre: Fundaçāo Iberé Camargo, 2023
J. Tschäpe, Janaina Tschäpe: Contemplating, exh. cat., Hong Kong: Edouard Malingue Gallery, 2014
E. Juncosa, Janaina Tschäpe: Chimera, exh. cat., Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2008
Janaina Tschäpe: Melantropics, exh. cat., St. Louis: Contemporary Art Museum, 2006.
F. Quintin, M. Reade, et al., Janaina Tschäpe: 100 Little Deaths, exh. cat., Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Reims: Le Colllege Editions, 2001
Videos
Publications
Janaina Tschäpe: A gush of wind (Atemraum)
Exhibition Poster
2025
€ 15.00
Selected Press
Tagesspiegel December 2025
Arte Realizzata March 2024
Herald Tribune January 2021
Ocula Magazine January 2021
Frontrunner January 2021
Künstler: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 2018
The New York Times Style Magazine June 2015
