Jenny Brosinski: Monkey Mind

7 Sep-1 Oct 2022

Overview

Almine Rech is pleased to present German artist Jenny Brosinski’s first solo exhibition in London. The exhibition shows both two and three-dimensional works, emphasising the alternation between painting and sculpture. At first glance, Brosinski’s world conveys a close kinship between the opposite poles of abstract and figurative art.

Her work can be understood as ‘dirty minimalism’ or ‘cool expressionism’. ‘Riotous conceptual painting’ also fits. They are abstract worlds that reflect each painterly gesture and decision in an honest way, undisguised. The animals and monsters have sacrificed themselves; they step out of the painting and become sculptures. Something happens when the characters are extracted from the frame: the red sled heading toward an unknown destination the black imposes on the baby blue.

— Larissa Kikol, art critic and art historian

Jenny Brosinski was born in Germany, 1984 and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Brosinski‘s minimalistic abstract paintings challenge the limits of mark-making. Brosinski’s paintings are typically light and pure, portraying incompleteness. While using her intuitive process, Brosinkski reveals abstract shapes, playful text and gestural strokes on raw canvas, which has a fast, automatic feel. The large-scale abstract paintings are dominated by the bursts of colour on a beige, bare background. 

Jenny Brosinski has received both her bachelor and masters degrees from Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin. Brosinski has exhibited in many countries around the world, including; UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Australia and USA. Brosinski’s works have also been acquired by the MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art collection, Korea; Public Collection of the City of Gothenburg, Sweden; and Kai Loebach Collection, USA.

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