Janaina Tschäpe’s abstract paintings and works on paper vibrate with a sense of momentum, intricate topographies that seem to breathe, with vibrant, gestural brushstrokes. Scribbles are layered in Twombly-like fashion, rendered sensuous in their fluorescence. Tschäpe makes paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, and sculptures that hone in on the space of fantasy and imagined mythical worlds. Often, her works evoke water, and the larger sense of consciousness and healing that shared bodies of water call to mind.
She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Sarasota Art Museum, Florida; Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson; Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Japan; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Tschäpe’s work is found in public collections including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others.
11 Jun 2025
Aspen Art Museum