Landscape of Change: Janaina Tschäpe’s “100 Little Deaths”
Posted: October 15, 2019
Category: Janaina Tschäpe
Janaina Tschäpe began her "100 Little Deaths" series in 1996 as an exploration of landscape, transmutation, and death. Each self-portrait depicts the artist sprawled face down in different environments around...
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Merian’s Daughters: Monika E. de Vries Gohlke, Amy Lamb, and Janaina Tschäpe
Posted: September 1, 2015
Category: Janaina Tschäpe
Three artists credit groundbreaking 17th-century artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian, whose work is also on view in Super Natural, as a major influence on their performances, photography, videos, and...
![Close-up photograph shows a trumpet-shaped flower against a dark black background. The flower's striated, long neck erupts in a profusion of purple and white petals that dominate the composition.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2015.21_1317-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
During the press preview for Super Natural, NMWA Chief Curator Kathryn Wat stressed one fact above all others about featured artist Maria Sibylla Merian: this woman was radical. Not only...
![A detailed engraving portrays a large, black and tan lizard with a white belly in precise detail. Facing right and positioned over a green surface and a hatching egg, the reptile bites a long, red and black snake attacking another egg and curling around the lizard's tail.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1986.219.69-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
What is natural? Porcelain grass lawns and anthropomorphic scooters may not be the first objects to come to mind, although they are likely to make a lasting impression. Visitors can...
![Detail photograph of ceramic sculpture made to look like a patch of lawn. Individual squares consisting of multiple upright blades of porcelain grass, glazed green, fit together to form a lush rectangular field of grass.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DHolder_Monoculture01_8x12-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Artist Spotlight: Janaina Tschäpe, Goddess of Water and Melancholy
Posted: July 28, 2014
Category: Janaina Tschäpe
Learn more about artist Janaina Tschäpe, who is known for Lacrimacorpus (Zeitschneide) and whose work is featured in the NMWA collection.
![An adult woman seen from behind standing before two open glass doors leading out to a balcony overlooking greenery. She is dressed in a long, tan, period gown and her hair is tied up. Around her shoulders are several clear bubbles, resembling a scarf made of bubbles.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2018.8-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)