Jenny Brosinski
Jenny Brosinski‘s minimalistic abstract paintings reflect an artistic language reminiscent of automatic writing, which is built up from individual stories on big canvases. The Berlin-based artist follows a reductivist approach to painting by restricting the creative gestures on canvas. Her paintings directly engage the viewer with the concept of deconstruction by demonstrating deftly uncoordinated compositions that “deliberately reveal traces of use, whereby the nature of their materiality is brought to the foreground”, as the painter highlights herself.
Minimal mark-making, apparent brushworks and spray-painted compositions make her artworks characterised by spontaneity in appearance, while maintaining their mindfully balanced components in an alluring visual expression. Brosinski puts a clear emphasis on the idea of deconstruction by highlighting a painting methodology expressed through a chromatic anguish that determines almost all her paintings. Showcasing a process-oriented philosophy, the idea of deconstruction offers herself a great lesson.
The artist aims to derive benefits from the materials she uses, such as linen and cotton. She exploits their textual qualities on canvas in order to reveal deeper and more emotional reactions from the viewers. Brosinski adopts an approach to painting that envelops together both intellectual and distinctively personal rules. At first glance her paintings introduce new forms of communication between irregular lines, childish squiggles, colours looking like stains, abstract marks or even famous cartoons. On top of that this uncomfortable visual allegory suggests a sharp-witted, effective and energetic juxtaposition on canvas elaborating the artist‘s emphasis on materiality, raw arrangements and simplistic shapes. In this respect, Brosinski creates a painting and then deconstructs and reconfigures it, eventually developing new possibilities based on the first creative arrangement.
Text: Yannis Kostarias
b.1984 in Celle (DE) based in Berlin (DE)
EDUCATIONS
2012 Meisterschüler postgraduate degree
Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, Germany
SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2021
- GOOFY, Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne (DE) S
- Wish you were here, Plus One Gallery, Antwerpen (BE)
- S Ganz anders gleich, Galerie Crone, Berlin (DE) G
- N.N. Kunstverein Schwerin S
- N.N. Ruttkowski;68, Paris (FR)
2020
- Nine to know, Ruttkowski;68, Paris (FR) G
- Art Rotterdam, Plus One Antwerp, G
- Feels good til it doesn’t, L21, Palma (ES) S
- Pas de deux II, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich (DE), G
- L ́heure Bleue, Antwerp, Plus-One-Gallery, G
- Guest Room, L21, Palma (ES) G
- Enter Art Fair, Bricks Gallery, CPH (DK) G
- Ruttkowski;68 Mixed Pickles 8, Berlin (DE), G
- Messe St Agnes, Galerie König, Berlin (DE) G
- ArtVent, Pop up, Galerie Sabine Kunst und VogelArtEdition, München (DE) G
- Paperworks Vol.1, NBB, Berlin (DE), G
- 10 Jahre Ruttkowski;68, Köln (DE), G
2019
- Catch me if you can, Choi & Lager, Seoul (KOR) Solo
- Art Brussels (BE), Choi & Lager, Solo Booth
- Art Rotterdam, Plus One Antwerp, Group
- Mixed Pickles V, Gallery Weekend Berlin, Ruttkowski68 (DE) Group
- Varieté, Gallery Weekend Berlin, VogelArtEdition & Galerie Sabine Knust (DE) Group
- Atlantic Bridge, Galerie Kremers, Berlin (DE) Group
- Art Busan, CHOI&LAGER Gallery (KOR), Group
- Worth of Art, group & artist talk, Häusler Contemporary Munich (DE)
- HERE+NOW, Pablo´s Birthday, New York (USA)
- COLOR UP! VogelArtEdition & Galerie Sabine Knust Düsseldorf (DE) Group
- Zwei Alter: Jung Crone Gallery Berlin (DE), Group
- On my Way, Plus One, Antwerp (BE), Group
- Untitled Miami, (USA), Choi & Lager (kommend)
- Twenty-four, BricksGallery, CPH (DK) Group
- Mixed Pickles XI, Ruttkowski68, Cologne (DE) Group
2018
- Come on and take the rest of me, Ruttkowski68 POP68 Cologne (DE) Solo
- Mixed Pickles 4, Michael Horbach Stiftung Köln, Ruttkowski68 (DE), Group
- It only makes it worse to live without it, Plus-One Gallery Antwerp (BE), Solo
- Rue Charlot Grand Opening Groupshow Ruttkowski68 Paris (FR)
- Brr Brr Bistro21, Leipzig (DE), together with Sascha Brylla (Duo)
- Soft? Tactile Dialogues MoMu Antwerp (BE) Group
- Mark your Mark Plus-One Gallery Antwerp (BE), Group
- You made me Nevven Gallery, Göteborg (SWE), Solo
- no theory VIU Gallery NYC (USA) Group
- Jenny Brosinski//Robin Seir, Union Gallery, London (UK), Duo
- Mixed Pickles 3, Gallery Weekend Berlin, Ruttkowski68 (DE), Group
- Dirty Voyage, Schaufenster Berlin, Berlin (DE), Group
- Destilled Destijl, TWFineArt, Brisbane (AUS) Group
- You´ve done too, ZWEISIEBEN, Artist-Run-Space Karlsruhe, (DE) Solo
2017
- Mixed Pickles 2 Michael Horbach Stiftung Köln, Ruttkowski68 (DE), Group
- Smells like Chicken Annarumma, Neapel (IT) Solo
- we_are_the_ones_vol.1 CGK (DEN), Group
- Huset for Kunst og Design Bech-Risvig-Collection (DEN), group
- Iconic Federico Rui Contemporanea Milan (IT), Patric Sandri, Struan Teague
- Floating Memories Galerie Schacher – Raum für Kunst, Stuttgart (DE) Solo
2016
- Roarr Geukens & De Vil Knokke (BE), Solo
- A full open hand, drippings, and carefully masked lines Galleri Jacob Bjorn, Aarhus (DK),
- with Koen Delaere, Jan S. Hansen, Bas van den Hurk, Manor Grunewald, Daniel Schubert,
- Jeroen Doorenweerd, Erin Lawlor
- Chapels Galleri Jacob Bjorn, Aarhus (DK), with Nick Theobald, Sebastian Golles,
- Keith J. Varadi, Tyra Tingleff, Wolfgang Voegele, Baptiste Caccia
- Come as you are Galerie Annarumma, Neapel (IT) with Jonathan Chapline, Josh Dihle,
- Jens Einhorn, Arielle Falk, Connor McNicholas, Eric Shaw, Gergo Szinyova,
- Cody Tumblin, Simone Zaccagnini
2015
- Großer Herbstrundgang der Spinnerei Galerien, Leipzig (DE), Group
2014
- BerlinArtPrize 2014, Shortlist, Exibition and Catalogue, Berlin (DE), Group
- natürlich künstlich Galerie Schacher – Raum für Kunst, Stuttgart (DE), Group
- Things I have learned in my life Kunsthalle Hamburger Platz, Berlin (DE), Group
- Gallery Klovicevi Dvori, Exibition and Catalogue, Zagreb (CRO), Group
2013
- Riff und andere Bilder Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE), Solo
- Mit mir und ohne mich Performance with Maximilian Bauer,
- Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE)
- Schwarz, Weiss, Laut Projectroom Römerstraße der Akademie Schloss Solitude,
- Stuttgart (DE), Group
- What‘s Work Worth? Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (DE) Group
2012
- Yellow, ethical, ... Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Gruppenausstellung
- Momentaufnahme 1436 Minuten Kunst Dock11, Berlin (DE), Group
- Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin (DE)
2011
- Veilchen UDK Berlin and Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, Germany
- Uferhallen, Berlin (DE), Group
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2019 CCA Andratx Mallorca/Spain
2017 Grantee of cultural exchange stipends of the federal state of Berlin (global / London)
2015 Pilotenküche, Spinnerei complex Leipzig, Germany
2014 BerlinArtPrize, Shortlist, Exibition and Catalogue, Germany
2013 Studio program of Berlin´s cultural affairs department
2012 Fellowship & Residency Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Germany
2011 Elsa Neumann Scholarship for the Promotion of Junior Artistic Achievement (Berlin)
Fellow of The German-French Youth Office (semester abroad)
COLLECTIONS
MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (KOR)
Public Collection of the City of Gothenburg (SWE)
Bech Risvig Collection (DK)
Kai Loebach Collection (USA)
Ernesto Esposito (IT)
Hannecart Collection (BE)
FAIRS
Miami Untitled (USA), ArtBrussels (BE), ArtHerning (DK), ArtBusan (KO), MiArt (IT)
GOOFY | 2021
