Tschäpe

The first major institutional solo show in the UK of German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe, presenting new paintings inspired by Hastings.

German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe, draws inspiration from myth, the natural world and the mysteries of aquatic states. Based in New York, this is her first major institutional solo show in the UK, for which Tschäpe has created a new series of paintings that respond directly to her experience of visiting Hastings in a wet, stormy November.

Spending her formative years in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Tschäpe, whose first name references the Brazilian sea goddess of the Candomblé religion, has always been captivated by the notion of the sea as a gateway to mystical realms.

Offering forays into the geological state of the psyche, blending geographical, astronomical and intimately humane concerns, her resulting large-scale, abstract landscapes provide extraordinary tapestries of forms and lines that contain strangely reminiscent organic motifs defining her own idiosyncratic language.

Tschäpe’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at major museums internationally, including the Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Denmark; the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Japan; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland; and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, United States.