CHART Talks Podcast: Janaina Tschäpe & Johan Holten

Janaina Tschäpe & Johan Holten

Listen back to a conversation between Janaina Tschäpe and Johan Holten
recorded live as part of the Talks Programme at CHART 2026.

For the latest episode of the CHART Talks podcast, we are pleased to share a recording of a conversation between Janaina Tschäpe and Johan Holten, Director of ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark. Prior to his current role, Holten served as Director of Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany, where he led the institution’s programme with a strong focus on contemporary art in a global context, exhibition-making and institutional development.

German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe works across painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, performance, murals and installation. Throughout her multidisciplinary practice, she explores the fluid relationship between aquatic, vegetal and human life, creating a poetic visual language that moves between figuration and abstraction. Inspired by the natural world, memory and mythology, her works evoke imagined landscapes where organic forms continuously emerge, dissolve and transform.

Starting with Tschäpe’s artistic practice and her relationship with painting, the conversation explores how nature, memory and lived experience find their way into her work. Tschäpe and Holten discuss her intuitive approach to making, the movement between abstraction and recognisable organic forms, and the influence of the different landscapes and cultural contexts that have shaped her practice.
Together, they reflect on nature as more than just a subject in her work

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