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Janaina Tschäpe / Collateral Event:
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Artist and Curator Talk
Janaina Tschäpe × Victor Gorgulho
Neither, either, nor: beyond abstraction and figurative in the paintings of Janaina Tschäpe.
■Event info
Venue: Auditorium of the Embassy of Brazil / 2-11-12 Kita Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Date: 2.22 (Wed.) 18:00 – 19:30
Limited Capacity (50 persons)
Supported by: Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo
Free admittance
Online registration
nca | nichido contemporary art in collaboration with the Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo is pleased to present the talk event Neither, either, nor: beyond abstraction and figurative in the paintings of Janaina Tschäpe. with German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe. on occasion of the artist’s upcoming solo show which will be on view at the gallery from February 25 (Sat.). The artist is joined by Brazilian curator and writer Victor Gorgulho the, author of the official press release and curatorial essay of the exhibition. The talk will investigate concepts and stories behind Tschäpe’s new work and will touch upon her previous bodies of work while expanding on Brazil’s contemporary art scene.
We are looking forward to your participation.
Janaina Tschäpe
Born in Munich (Germany), 1973, to a German father and a Brazilian mother; raised in San Paulo (Brazil). Lives and works between New York and Rio de Janeiro.
Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Sarasota Art Museum, Florida; the Musée L’Orangerie, Paris, France; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona; Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Kasama, Japan; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, and the Contemporary Museum of Art, St Louis. She has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at venues including NCA Taipei, Taiwan; Whitechapel Gallery, London; TBA21-Augarten, Vienna, Austria; CCBB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Centre D’Art Contemporain de Normandie, France; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Nanazawa, Japan; and Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan. Her work is found in important public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Harvard Art Museum, Massachusetts; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, amongst others.
Victor Gorgulho
Victor Gorgulho (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a curator, journalist, and researcher based in Rio de Janeiro. Graduated in Journalism from ECO-UFRJ. He holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts and Contemporary Culture from PUC-Rio. Curated the exhibitions We live in the best city of South America, along with curator Bernardo José de Souza (Atomos, Rio de Janeiro, 2016 and Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, 2017); The third world asks for a blessing and goes to sleep (Despina, Rio de Janeiro, 2017); I’ve always dreamed of a museum in fire – Laura Lima & Luiz Roque at Carlos Werneck’s Puppet Theater (Rio de Janeiro, 2018); Perdona que no te crea (Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro, 2019). Co-curator, with Keyna Eleison, of the exhibition Engraved in the body, at Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, February 2021, with iteration to the United States at Tanya Bonakdar, New York, in 2022. As a journalist, he worked as assistant editor of culture for Jornal do Brasil (2014-2017) and today collaborates with vehicles such as El País Brasil. Co-organizer, along with critic and curator Luisa Duarte, of the book When the world trembles – Essays and interviews in the light of the pandemic (Editora Cobogó, 2020). In 2021, was awarded the grant of guest curator of Pivô Art & Research (São Paulo, Brazil) international program Satellite and since then has been appointed Chief-Curator at Instituto Inclusartiz, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded and directed by Frances Reynolds.
