Janaina Tschape

BIOGRAPHY
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JANAINA TSCHAPE
1973 Born in Munich, Germany 
  Lives and works in Brasil and New York
   
Training  
1997-1998 Master in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1992-1997 Fine Arts studies, Hochschule fur Bilende Kuenste, Hamburg, Germany
1994 Artist in Residency Program, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil 
   
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Tucson, Arizona
  Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
  Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Dream Particles, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2010 Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2009 Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
  Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil 
  Roger Ballen Foundation for Photography, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Galeria de Cultura Laura Alvim, Impanema, Brazil
  Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Japan
2008 Chimera, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
  Dragoons, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
  Moon Blossom, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Janaina Tschäpe & Vik Muniz, Galerie Xippas, Athens, Greece
  Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY 
2006 Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
  Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
  Camaleoas, Z Platz Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
  Melantropics, Contemporary Museum of Art, St Louis, Missouri
  Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
  Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
  Galerie Bo Bjerggard, Copenhagen, Denmark 
2005 Lacrimacorpus, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  Blood Sea, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
  Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
  University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  Blood Sea, Espaço Maria Bonita, São Paulo, Brazil 
2004 Lacrimacorpus, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
  Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Blood Sea, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
  The Sea and the Mountain, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2003 After the Rain, Galerie 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
  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, Galerie 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 Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
1998 Entering The Space That Produces Liquid, Clinica Aesthetica, New York, NY
1997 A Viagem, Centro Cultural Ricoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1996 Untitled, Galeria Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2012 Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
  Percursos Contemporos, Contemporary Art Museum of Soracoba, Brazil
2011 NY: New Perspectives, with the contribution of Linda Yablonsky, Brand New Gallery, Milan
  She Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Italy
  Once Upon a Time, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
  Pictures Are Words-Not-Known, LiShui Museum of Photography, LiShui, China
  Semana de Arte do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2010 Le bénéfice du doute, Hôtel Fontfreyde Centre Photographique, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  Bee Natural, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
  Brave New World, Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Mudam), Luxembourg City, Germany 
  Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, and Performance, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
  Suffern Music and Art Festival, Suffern, New York
  Underwater, Towner, Eastbourne, United Kingdom. Traveling to Spacex, Exeter; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Bluecoat, Liverpool; Tullie House, Carlisle
  Nuits des Musées. Musée de la Chasse, Paris, France
  Glamour, International Festival of Visual Arts inSPRIACJE, Szczecin, Poland
  The Bug, The Spider and The Butterfly, Roos Art, Rosendale, NY
  Identity 6 – Body It! Curated by Takashi Azumaya, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  Busan Biennale: Living in Evolution, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
  Made in Tucson, Born in Tucson, Live in Tucson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona
  ArtFact Paris: Best Of, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
  La Forêt De Mon Rêve, Galerie du Conseil Général of Aix-en-Provence, France
  De L'ombre et du Reve , Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, France
  Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brasil, New Museum, New York, NY
  Who Are You Peter?, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France 
  A New Form of Memory, Kasama Nichido Museum, Kasama City, Japan
  The Exquisite Landscape, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
  ShanShui 2010: H2O, Beijing Center for the Arts, Beijing, China
  2000-2010, Celebrating 10 Years, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
  Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, and Performance, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2009 After Utopia, Centro per L’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
  Forces, Portimao Museum and TEMPO Theatre Gallery, Portimao, Portugal
  Saccharum Ba, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
  NCA Selection, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
  Pinta: The Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Fair, The Metropolitan Pavilion/The Altman Building, New York, NY
  Mostravideo, Instituto Itau Cultural, Brazil
  A World Without Frames, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Meet & Cake, Roos Arts, Rosendale, New York
  Strike a Pose, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  Elles, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2008 My Space. What Does ‘Public’ Mean?  Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Italy
  Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama,Japan
  Arte Pela Amazonia, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo 3º Pavimento, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Surreale, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Italy
  ART(E) MERICANA LATINA 3emee ete culturel de la villa de Saint-Tropez, France
  Falling Right into Place, The Fold in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseen Krefeld/Museum Haus Lange and Kaiser, Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
  Garten Eden: Der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900, Kunsthalle, Emden, Germany and Staedtische Galerie, Bissingen, Germany
  Natureza, Olhar de Artist, MAC USP, Sao Paolo, Brazil
  Mostra de Video: Sergio Motta Prize for Art and Technology, Museum Reina Sofia
  Projeto dos Multiplos, Galeria 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
  Bordando Arte, Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, 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;  Trafo Multimedia Center, Bucarest, Romania
  Vidéo Tour, La Galerie de l'Université Paris 8, Le Cube, Paris, France
  Primeira Pessoa, Exposiçao Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
  Busy Going Crazy, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
  Con los Ojos del Otro: Una Muestra de Videoartistas Brasilieños, Centro Cultral de España, Montevideo, Uruguay
  Art Fab, Exhibition Hall Jean Despas, St. Tropez, France
  Me, Myself and I: Artist Self-Portraits from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Virgina Beach, VA
  Evolving Identies, Rockland Center for the Arts (ROCA), West Nyack, NY
2005 Alem da Imagem, Instituto Telemar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Croiser des Mondes, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
  Alguns Libres d’Artista, PROJECTESD, Barcelona, Spain
  The White Rose, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
  Landscape Confection, Wexner Center, Ohio, USA. Traveling to: Contemporary  Art Museum, Houston, Texas, USA; 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, Fribourg, Switzerland
  Water, Water Everywhere… Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
  Art Robe, UNESCO, Paris, France
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, NY
  Célébration/20 Ans Du Frac Champagne-Ardenne La Collection En Un Volue, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
  Unclosed Stories, Unlimited, Athens, Greece
2003 Ordnung und Chaos, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
  Metacorpos, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
  UNESCO Salutes Women in Art, UNESCO, Paris, France
  Identity, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  Ambivalence, Z Platz Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2002 Multiplos, Galerie Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Récits, Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
  Interventions, Nuit des Musées, La Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Germany
  Nuites Blanches, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  Caminhos do Contemporâneo, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Morro/Labyrinth, Brasilianisches Kulturinstitut in Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
  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, D.C.
  Absences, Riksutstillinger, Oslo, Norway
2000 Personal Permanent Records, Blue Starr, Houston, Texas
  Vanitas Personae, Gallery Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
  Sei Artist per GoetheEine Italienische Reise, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy; GoetheInstitute, Napoli, Italy
  BluePrint, Spark Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Face Value - Miyako Projects, New York, NY
  Personal Permanent Records, Center of Photography, Woodstock, NY
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, NY
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 
1995 Corpo sobre Corpo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Objetos e Instalações, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil
  Metrópolis e Periferia, Institut Goethe und Deutch Brazilianische Kulturelle Vereinigung, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Salão de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil
1994 Salão de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil
  Ausência, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador, Brazil