Opening: Frankenthaler moves Jenny Brosinski, Ina Gerken, Adrian Schiess

2025-09-26

Overview

The Museum Reinhard Ernst (mre) dedicates the year 2025 to the artist Helen Frankenthaler with two temporary exhibitions. Following on from Helen Frankenthaler. Move and Make (on view until 5 October 2025), the mre invites visitors to experience the pioneering art of the American artist in dialogue with the present in Frankenthaler Moves.

Helen Frankenthaler, Second Wind (detail), 1976 © Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

Jenny Brosinski (born 1984), Ina Gerken (born 1987) and Adrian Schiess (born 1959) have selected some of Frankenthaler’s previously unseen works from the Reinhard Ernst Collection and staged a joint exhibition with their own works.

Helen Frankenthaler moves Jenny Brosinski, Ina Gerken, Adrian Schiess convincingly illustrates how Frankenthaler’s painterly versatility and innovative spirit still inspires today. We thus tell a story that begins with her and is independently developed and confidently continued by the above three artists.

This unique exhibition experience offers an insight into the world’s largest private collection of Frankenthaler’s works while opening up a multifaceted encounter with contemporary abstract painting from Germany and Switzerland.

Learn more about the participating artists on our exhibition page.

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Tickets for our exhibition opening on 26th October 26 2025, are available
here.

Look forward to artful moves with rope skipping at the main entrance, an open color lab, and engaging art education in the exhibition rooms.

Programme:

  • 12:15 pm: Rope skipping for everyone in front of the main entrance with Mira Waterkotte
  • 12:30 pm: Curator’s tour with Lea Schäfer (meeting point: Maki Forum)
  • 2:00 pm: Schwyzer-Dütsch tour with Catherine S. Dallmer (meeting point: Maki Forum)
  • 2:30 pm: Rope skipping for everyone in front of the main entrance
  • 3:00 pm: Director’s tour with Dr. Oliver Kornhoff (meeting point: Maki Forum)
  • 3:45 pm: Ropeskipping for visitors in front of the main entrance
  • 4:00 pm: Book presentation Neue Abstrakte Malerei (New Abstract Painting): Author Larissa Kikol in conversation with Lea Schäfer, followed by a book signing in the shop.This talk will be conducted in German.

All day:

  • Helen Frankenthaler workshop: 1st floor, in front of Tony Cragg sculpture
  • Guides on demand in the special exhibition rooms