Tina Braegger

Tina Braegger

BornNationalityBased In
1985SwissZürich, Berlin
Biography

Tina Braegger (b. 1985, Lucerne) lives and works in Berlin and Zurich. She is a conceptual artist whose work addresses questions related to originality, reproduction, authenticity, repetition, and difference. Since 2017, she has explored these topics through the motif of the „dancing bear,” a bootleg drawing that became an emblem of the American rock band The Grateful Dead in the 1970s. Braegger’s attraction to the bear has little to do with the band‘s music. Instead, her painting practice conceptually engages with how this counterfeit symbol inverts notions of official and unofficial, original and copy. In Braegger’s paintings, as in the concert parking lots that spawned countless variations of this figure, the bear operates according to the logic of the bootleg. The dancing bear absorbs, sponge-like, characteristics that it encounters through the process of its circulation, canonization, and its own fluctuating values—which Braegger addresses in her endless painterly permutations of this figure. As critic Francesco Tenaglia notes, „It is always there, in one form or another, and it defines the way painting reinvents it, reacts against it, ignores it, or digests it. It is a logo, a mannerism, a trigger, and a grid.“ ...

Selected Artworks
the world was on fire and no one could safe me but you
Tina Braeggerthe world was on fire and no one could safe me but you, 2022120 x 105 x 4cmPrice on Request
in the mood for love
Tina Braeggerin the mood for love, 2022155 x 90 x 4cmPrice on Request
TBT
Tina BraeggerTBT, 2021130 x 95 x 4cmPrice on Request
Paint it black
Tina BraeggerPaint it black, 2022205 x 285cmPrice on Request
Ruby Tuesday
Tina BraeggerRuby Tuesday, 2022195 x 295 x 4.5cmPrice on Request
Like a Prayer
Tina BraeggerLike a Prayer, 2021195 x 185 x 4cmPrice on Request
It's Coming Home
Tina BraeggerIt's Coming Home, 2021220 x 300 x 4cmPrice on Request
The grapes of wrath
Tina BraeggerThe grapes of wrath, 2021205 x 185 x 4cmPrice on Request
Powers of Horror
Tina BraeggerPowers of Horror, 2021200 x 205 x 4cmPrice on Request
It takes two to Tango
Tina BraeggerIt takes two to Tango, 2023144 x 241 x 3cmPrice on Request
Gold Bear
Tina BraeggerGold Bear, 2023155.5 x 205.5 x 3cmPrice on Request
Nomen
Tina BraeggerNomen, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
Verb
Tina BraeggerVerb, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
Admin Reveal
Tina BraeggerAdmin Reveal, 2023179 x 204 x 6cmPrice on Request
The most wonderful year of the time
Tina BraeggerThe most wonderful year of the time, 2023209 x 273 x 6cmPrice on Request
Id, Ego, Superego
Tina BraeggerId, Ego, Superego, 2023209 x 259 x 6cmPrice on Request
Sarvangasana
Tina BraeggerSarvangasana, 2023283.5 x 214 x 6cmPrice on Request
Feste fallen wie sie feiern
Tina BraeggerFeste fallen wie sie feiern, 2023108 x 129 x 6cmPrice on Request
Dirty numb angel boy
Tina BraeggerDirty numb angel boy, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
My brain hurts like a warehouse
Tina BraeggerMy brain hurts like a warehouse, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
Qxh7#
Tina BraeggerQxh7#, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
A spin in the laundromat
Tina BraeggerA spin in the laundromat, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
July
Tina BraeggerJuly, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
April
Tina BraeggerApril, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
December
Tina BraeggerDecember, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
February
Tina BraeggerFebruary, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
November
Tina BraeggerNovember, 202332 x 26 x 4cmPrice on Request
Adjournment
Tina BraeggerAdjournment, 202443.5 x 35.5 x 3.6cmPrice on Request
Endgame
Tina BraeggerEndgame, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
Even one passed pawn can be deadly
Tina BraeggerEven one passed pawn can be deadly, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
Rooks on the seventh
Tina BraeggerRooks on the seventh, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
Giulio Piano (I, I and I)
Tina BraeggerGiulio Piano (I, I and I), 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
Backward pawn
Tina BraeggerBackward pawn, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
Terminology
Tina BraeggerTerminology, 202443.5 x 35.5 x 3.6cmPrice on Request
Fianchetto for the win
Tina BraeggerFianchetto for the win, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
There is nothing beyond me or higher
Tina BraeggerThere is nothing beyond me or higher, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
Active piece
Tina BraeggerActive piece, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
Iacopo look
Tina BraeggerIacopo look, 202498 x 157 x 5cmPrice on Request
My last poem
Tina BraeggerMy last poem, 202443.5 x 35.5 x 4cmPrice on Request
Fools mate
Tina BraeggerFools mate, 202443.5 x 35.5 x 4cmPrice on Request
Mate in two
Tina BraeggerMate in two, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
The currency I hold
Tina BraeggerThe currency I hold, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
Lose on time
Tina BraeggerLose on time, 202438.5 x 30.5 x 3.5cmPrice on Request
The smaller splash
Tina BraeggerThe smaller splash, 202498 x 148 x 5cmPrice on Request
Only one of us is real
Tina BraeggerOnly one of us is real, 202498 x 157 x 5cmPrice on Request
Baller
Tina BraeggerBaller, 2024128 x 203 x 6cmPrice on Request
Gallery Representation