Showcase 7: Jenny Brosinski

And this old world is a new world II, 2021

Text by Leopold Weinberg

Berlin-based artist Jenny Brosinski creates works defined by radical reduction and a deliberate use of emptiness and gesture. At first glance, her paintings appear raw, spontaneous, and almost sketch-like — yet each line, each surface, reveals a carefully considered composition and a subtle sense of balance. Brosinski captures the fascination of imperfection, using minimal means to evoke an immediate emotional presence. Her work moves at the intersection of painting and concept, control and chance, inviting viewers to discover complexity within simplicity.

Horn Head, 2021, Bronze, 118 x 98 x 66 cm

About

Appearing in an easily and sloppy aesthetic, Jenny Brosinski regularly uses raw canvases to create large mixed media paintings.Jenny Brosinski is best known for her compositions of canvases with typical lightness and simplicity – while she deconstructs her canvas into new creations, gathering classic oil colours with dirt, dust, household detergent or machine laundry. Her process orientated approach let us participate in her studio experience and she uses her fascination for materials, incompleteness and failure to create paintings which are often compared to minimalism, calligraphic aesthetics, Écriture automatique or children’s mark-making. Colors and lines breathe here, show themselves as an open work and conceal nothing on her big canvases. 

In contrast to her paintings, her sculptures and ceramics are figurative and almost seem like inhabitants of these reduced worlds.

Jenny was born in Celle (GER) and is based in Berlin (GER) and Blankensee (GER). She holds a Meisterschüler postgraduate degree (2012) at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, Germany.

All images courtesy of the artist

Jenny Brosinski “As long as I get somewhere”